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Frequently asked questions.

What the firm does, who it serves, scope boundaries, engagement formats, working languages, regulatory translation, and how engagements start. Canonical answers consolidated for inbound discovery.

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What and whoWhat the firm does. Who it serves. What it does not do. Why home-market signals are misread by the US buyer.
How engagements runThree engagement formats. Discovery sequence. Languages. Fiduciary referrals. Reverse-direction US-to-international work.
Technical and regulatoryFederal procurement readability. EU-to-US regulatory translation for medtech, automotive, and cyber. Engagement timelines. Geography.

What the firm does and who it serves.

What does Global Marketing Agency do?

We identify where an internationally headquartered business is being misread in the US market and correct it. Three stages. Diagnosis: where and why the market misinterprets your business. Signal correction: positioning, pricing, messaging, trust structure. Execution layer: ads, pages, funnels, only after alignment.

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Who is the firm for?

Companies already operating whose growth depends on being understood correctly in a market that does not think like their home market. Primary: international companies entering the US. Secondary: US-based companies entering the UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Malta, Ireland, Dubai, Singapore, or Hong Kong. Not for early-stage guessing. Not for local-only businesses.

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Why do American buyers interpret international businesses differently?

In the US, buyers do not explore brands. They make fast decisions on signals. How you position, how you price, how you present risk. Home-market signals that read as restraint, precision, or seriousness in Munich, Zurich, or Singapore frequently read as small, slow, or evasive to the US buyer.

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What does the firm not do?

No search-ranking work. No backlink work. No legal services, no immigration or visa work, no entity formation, no tax structuring, no banking introductions, no fiduciary services, no regulatory licensing, no IP filing, no contract drafting. These belong with qualified specialists.

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Engagement formats and discovery sequence.

How do engagements start?

With an inquiry and a discovery conversation. The firm runs three engagement formats: Market Entry Sprint (six to ten weeks), Cross-Border Build (three to six months), and Group Partnership (monthly retainer, twelve-month minimum). Pricing is confirmed per engagement in discovery. Pricing is not published on the public site.

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What is the difference between Sprint and Build?

Market Entry Sprint is a six-to-ten-week diagnostic and signal-correction engagement that delivers the architecture decisions and the first operational layer. Cross-Border Build is a three-to-six-month implementation engagement that builds the full US commercial layer on top of corrected architecture. Most engagements move Sprint first, Build second.

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What languages does the firm operate in?

English, German, and Russian natively. Discovery and strategy can run in any of the three. Execution deliverables for US audiences are produced in English. German and Russian execution is available for material aimed at home-market or DACH or CIS audiences.

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Does the firm work with fiduciaries and family offices?

Yes. Fiduciary referrals are a primary inbound channel. The firm does not pay introducer commissions. Engagements introduced through fiduciaries are billed directly to the operator. The fiduciary remains in their advisory role and the firm carries the cross-border architecture work. This separation is part of why fiduciaries refer.

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Does the firm work with US companies going abroad?

Yes, in the reverse direction. US companies entering the UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Malta, Ireland, Dubai, Singapore, or Hong Kong face symmetric misreading. The same diagnostic-and-correction framework applies in reverse: the US-default register reads as aggressive, transactional, or under-credentialed in those markets.

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Procurement, regulation, timelines, geography.

What does cross-border US procurement readiness involve?

For federal procurement: SAM.gov entity registration, NAICS code mapping, FAR and DFARS reps and certs, GSA Schedule eligibility assessment, CMMC posture for DOD work, FedRAMP pathway for cloud products. The firm builds the commercial readability layer on top of these registrations. The registrations themselves are typically handled by qualified specialists.

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How is EU-to-US regulatory translation handled?

For medical devices: MDR clinical evidence does not equal FDA 510(k) substantial-equivalence demonstration. For automotive: European VDA submissions do not directly substitute for AIAG PPAP and APQP at Detroit Three suppliers. For cyber: ISO 27001 is necessary but not sufficient for FedRAMP or CMMC. The firm builds the commercial frame around these technical boundaries.

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What is a typical engagement timeline?

Discovery and proposal: one to two weeks. Market Entry Sprint: six to ten weeks from kickoff. Cross-Border Build: three to six months from kickoff. Group Partnership: monthly cadence with twelve-month minimum. Most operators that progress from Sprint to Build do so on continuous cadence; the architecture is the same and the artefacts are reused.

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Where is the firm based?

Sacramento, California, with native operating coverage in English, German, and Russian. Engagements are run remotely with on-site components when warranted. City-gate landing pages exist for the corridors the firm operates: London, Zurich, Geneva, Munich, Frankfurt, Vienna, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, and others.

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How is the firm different from a US marketing agency?

A US marketing agency builds for US buyers from a US starting point. The firm builds for international operators whose home register, pricing posture, trust signals, and category architecture do not transfer. The diagnostic comes first, the execution comes second. A US-default agency typically starts at execution and treats positioning as input rather than output.

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Reference

Glossary.

Cross-border US market entry glossary. Federal procurement, export control, FDA pathways, automotive supplier qualification, USMCA, IRA Section 30D.

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Engagement

Engagements.

The three engagement formats: Market Entry Sprint, Cross-Border Build, Group Partnership. How they sequence and where each fits.

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Cornerstone

Why American buyers read brand differently.

The signal layer in US commercial reading. Why home-market restraint reads as small. The architecture decisions that correct the misread.

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The FAQ describes the firm. The work begins with the inquiry.

Diagnostic conversations precede every engagement. Tell us where the US market is misreading the business.

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