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Global Marketing profile online - Middle East-North Africa

Market opportunity

For a company to research to expand internationally, the language barrier can be a difficult to overcome obstacle. Europe, for example, while a large global market is fractured into many smaller market segments by different languages. The countries of the Arabian peninsula (including the Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates United and the Yemen) and Egypt (in North Africa), are United by a common language - Arabic - do not face this problem. This growing fast and very rich region is an excellent market for organizations based in the United States seeking to take their global business.

With a population of approximately 157 million in 2007 which is expected to almost double over the next forty years, the Middle East/North Africa region (MENA) is one of the regions of unique language who knows the most rapid growth in the world. The population of this region have some per capita income highest in the world, with Qatar being the third largest in the world at $84,833 and the United Arab Emirates United (at home in the business world Dubai Centre) do not far behind at $38,108, according to the US State Department. And with the country led to being home to a significant proportion of the world's oil and natural gas reserves, the region is approached to become even richer in the near future.

Better vertical markets

In General, the best vertical markets to export to the United States are in the areas of technologies and services. In the Yemen, the United Arab Emirates United and the Qatar, for example, medical equipment and services, and technologies in health care, were among first markets.

MENA countries currencies have remained relatively stable against the US dollar over the past few years and the general trend appears to be no major fluctuations, as most currencies are indexed to the U.S. Dollar. The Egyptian pound, which is not indexed on the US Dollar, gradually won to the Dollar for the past two years. Except this stability of the currency, many countries of the Gulf have developed in 2010 as a deadline for a single currency in the Gulf. These facts suggest a region where trade is simple, predictable and cost-effective.

Regulatory and tariff landscape

The region MENA is one where the trade is by-and-large free of charge. Tariffs are generally low in all areas, with the functions on most of the elements to be 5%. However, with Islam is the religion distinguished (and official) many countries MENA, pork and pork products are prohibited, and the alcohol and tobacco were generally high rates (50-100%) on them. Other than these restrictions, however, there are a few barriers to trade, and the export of the region is generally simple and inexpensive.

Opportunities for Marketing online

Countries MENA, according to Internet World Stats, have a population of approximately 18.3 million collective online, which represents an average of 22% of market penetration and growth of Meziadin % over the past seven years. This population online, the Egypt and Saudi Arabia require 80% of internet users, although the majority of the money with the countries that make up the rest of 20%. However, the Egypt and Saudi Arabia are strong potential and should propel growth online in the region in the near future. This dichotomy creates in countries led a rich and established section and an important sector oriented growth, which is optimal for e-commerce or e-marketing campaigns in the region.

Online language preferences

The unifying link between these countries otherwise various is a common language shared - Arabic. According to Internet World Stats, arabe Arabic is the seventh largest language of internet, with 60 million users and representing approximately 4.2% of the entire population of the internet. However, Arabic content online represents only about 0.5% of global online content, which led to a considerable gap between the supply and demand. To meet this demand for content world online and reach the end user the Arabic language, it is recommended that the global online marketing at least optimize some content in Arabic and have an Arabic language landing page.

Search engine profile

MENA region search engines can be profiles as a "Big 3" - Google, Yahoo and MSN Live. Overall, these are three main search engines, in the region although the individual rankings differ from one country to another. According to Alexa.com, while that Google occupies the first place in the United Arab Emirates United (House of commerce powerhouse Dubai), Qatari Internet users prefer Yahoo as their search engine. Thus, an organizer who wish to optimize his pages should submit their Web sites for all search engines three maximum results.

Summary

The region MENA is strong growth, too rich region creating an effect of synergy for the countries that are part. United by the common language of Arabic, the Middle East and North Africa can become a vital and profitable element in global expansion of any organization. While showing a significant potential, MENA is still in its early stages of growth. Therefore, Global eMarketer occupies the region MENA as a level II for global expansion market online. Yet, organizations seeking to be "first participants" on the market would do well to give strong consideration for region MENA Arabic speaking for their online marketing campaigns.

-The contributions of Amal Kumar

Amal Kumar is a research analyst at eMarketer world (GeM) global markets. GeM is a development of international trade and the marketing consulting firm that helps businesses expand globally for the preparation, implementation with global online campaign management. For more information contact information [at] globalemarketer [dot] com, or visit our website at http://www.globalemarketer.com

Iraq, Middle East or Africa explode - not a Potter trailer

GADS how all the huff comments? People wear of contact on the message in Harry Potter and the creation of Harry Potter rumors. Get over it! People like the book and the history. Will be become a vampire sucking blood because they like the story? I imagine that there are those who think similarly.

What are the puppets after dark at night? Create more rules for us all to live by? Get worried and concerned about anything that fits in their lists? I am concerned more that Governments and the religious decides on what we should and should not do, that Harry Potter and all the rumours liable to it.

We have the right to believe in America, do we? I sometimes ask myself these days. So many things being rationed, chewed and re-delivered us with packaging and different ribbons. What happened to freedom of expression, the idea of it? What happened to the generation of baby boomers who saw no wrong in the Viet Nam and decides to walk against it. Where are all these people? Where they were before we went to Iraq? We hear news that the Middle East or the Iraq or Africa still explode on a daily basis and keep us standing in line for a book Harry Potter or wait for a Potter trailer. Now that it seems a little trendy, we all position online and say in unison that this war in Iraq was and that it is bad, but where are people who should be walking? What lines to their position? Apathy became the religion of the day?

My Harry Potter is that we really must need a diversion to be standing in line for a book. Make no mistake... I have already said that I believe in freedom of the message, and I applaud the fact that people read. What I wonder is well why not stand in line for things that are most important as well? Be maintained online for the human rights when there is news blow up the Iraq, the Middle East or Africa. Booth online when it is perhaps not connected and the future of this world depends on us be brave enough to speak... no cry... when something is not good? Take this energy to love something as a series of books and channel to something that suggests a clearer future for humanity. In Darfur, in Iraq, Abu Ghraib... .stand online waving our hands, saying: I am against these and other atrocities. I stand for human rights. What if.. What happens if all the energy it has taken to stand in lines for the last Harry Potter book stood in lines to rise against the inhumane?

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What makes backbone bandwidth within the meaning of most of the networks in Africa, Middle East and Latin America?

In view of the available in each region network infrastructure... What bandwidth solution make the most sense (and why) for the design of network solutions to meet the needs of business voice/data?

It is a difficult question to answer, in view of the challenges faced by each region. The reality may be that there is no easy answer. There is no "one size fits all the" which covers all of these regions at a time. So that everyone must be treated separately and distinctly to have any chance of success.

Some of the factors to be considered likely considered important would include business (e.g., type of business, number of locations in the network) technology (e.g., copper, fibre, terrestrial wireless link) economic (financing, King of implementation, budget), political (e.g. a stable government)(services nationalized, free market encourages entrepreneurship) and regulatory (e.g. the Government restrictions, limitations of international connectivity internal).

For example [...] is a viable based DS3 solution for multisite WAN network in Nigeria? T1 for a single to the Brazil location? Ethernet for campus LAN in Bahrain?

These regions of the world are also commonly called "developing countries", which is generally true of their infrastructure and included communications infrastructure.

Emirates of the Persian Gulf... and to some extent to the Brazil (in the large metro areas) are.... well developed, and you can expect the same telecom services to some extent as in the USA and Europe.

Moreover, the availability is rare and inconsistent.

For this reason for many developing countries are focusing on cellular communications with the intention of "jump" the wired infrastructure development completely. For example the based on direct satellite, such as VSAT service. There is of course the question of the time with this approach which will affect voice and high-l'interactivité, so if the delay is an important factor, you need to consider the use of most (not sure that what becomes of them) or of other satellites to low Earth orbit.

Before digging into the technical aspects for a Middle East or African network infrastructure one should consider the political situation. Most of these countries still have their local telephone companies owned Government. At best, they are a monopoly by the political powers and the local rich people. Once you get the right people, these countries are adopting it more leading and bleeding of advanced technologies. Customers in these areas are more prone to using the "later - & - greatest" essentially for reasons of novelty. Ultimately, it does not matter why clients subscribe as long as the business is!

In Africa, there had been some improvements in submarine terrestrial connectivity, but that doesn't help much to reach specific locations and providing return. In the same way VSAT was the traditional solution in Africa and in other remote regions, but the proliferation of WiMax generates increasing problems of interference. This is compounded by the unpredictable nature of the licences and controls. In my view, that Latin America was very much in General improved access provision but quality and cost is still difficult to predict and manage. Middle East , much investment was and unfolds.... but here the biggest obstacle tends to be regulatory and the absence of a market open for supply.

A true "response" is possible only by a detailed and prospects for telecom study and the availability of existing infrastructure in each region. For this purpose the following factors should be considered;

Technology...

This type of prosecution all depends on the types of services offered (as fixed voice or cellular, leased circuits for WAN, broadband, Triple Play, IPTV, etc.), users (e.g., number of users, individual or corporate, dispersed or concentrated), service coverage and infrastructure of the network backbone available (e.g., OFC network with PDHSDH)(, DWDM or MW via PDH, SDH)... then we might be able to forecast bandwidth backbone, evaluate existing available infrastructure improvement plan if necessary, select technology and estimate investment. In short, the answer is that T1, DS3 and OC3 bandwidth meaning if the infrastructure of the line is readily available for a tie in. Fiber is better logic (ethernet) if the grid is easily available and taken in charge. If any of these are reasonably available in quantities that VSATS will continue as the solution of choice with tie in minimum structure of hard line "nodes" where it is present.

Economic and business....

To prepare a model of business, the factors include need to spending, OPEX, van, and sorting, income based on the ARPU for a particular service, taxes, licence fees, the rate of Inflation, declining ARPU because of competition expectedlast connectivity mile for client corporatifet of contingencies in licenses and approvals and implementation of the project. This category seems to be the most self limiting on any challenge to the technology.

Regulatory / Administrative (political)...

The concerned administrative factors would be different for each region... as monopolistic regime and political situations in Africa and environment partially deregulated in most of the countries of the Middle East ... normally a licence is a delicate task in many countries.

For each of the listed regions (Africa, Middle East, Latin America).... based on your analysis by factors above.... you will find that a realistic solution may be that a hybrid of technologies would be necessary. For example, VSAT can offer a global network and be integrated in terrestrial networks (T1, DS3, OCx, fast ethernet) where feasible and available. Ultimately there is no single solution that corresponds to each scenario... you must be flexible and innovative to target the right solution for each situation on its own merits.

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