here are my opinions:
+t!q8o%s!g:N'}[A Professional Business Forum]           first, you should know where he is from,because people from different countries have different customs.be care of his country's toboo,or sth else. then, you just can talk about many things,such as, your company,your liveing city,scenic spots,and chinese trditional food,etc.

i am newbie in the business world. but i think it has too much disgusting items in our home market, like feast, smoking when you talk with your customers(i dont kown if other boss are like that, i saw a few do like that) so, for the business credit, let us forget about it.(t%A._-M*b9^

+I,_-k#|+yFOB Business Forumi think there is no special things need to do when we deal with foreigners.since most of us are intl-biz sales, what we need to od is proviing the best quality goods and service.that is the point.
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we influence each other indeed. one of my acquitance from ethiopia think that anyone can not kill him before God take his life away. that is their nation attitude to the life. and i think it is not wrong,nevertheless.

Please go ahead,I want to learn your idea.

i am very nervous when i talk to the foreign clientFOB Business Forum-u/v+l2S&N.k2T5L!X.z+O(l
and forget the words most of the time

The two foreigners I met before got interested in Chinese characters and expressions, it seemed that they wanted to adapt to the new place, I taught them how to order food in Chinese restaurants. Sometimes I told them something about Chinese traditional festival...'j.|7W0y$u:H
The most important thing is that you should know how to express yourself in English...if you can, just go ahead, talk everything you want or your customers want...

It's so abroad,maybe we can choose some idiographic topics.

I think we can talk about everything, especially some interesting things.

in my opinion,one foreigner had better look for a chinese freind to talk about this.

From my experience, the foreigner feel very lonely and boring when he/she comes to China. So we'd better accompany them more time, and show them around some interesting place.

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Try to collect some information of your customer's such as hobbies, favoriate food ..and so on.
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I agree with Andrew, the details are important, whatever topic you share with your customer, the main point is all of you enjoy it. Like some of foreign they don't know chinese food, they even scare, and cann't find good food to eat when they have trip to china. Like the muslin, we can share with them the chinese culture, because we have some common traditional things, we have the similar lunar calendar. Like the people from USA, they not scare for anything, and curious, you can share with them about some chinese special food, like eat snake, eat dog, etc. Some customer like sports, then you can talk with them about MBA.

i am the fresher people in this forum,and have learned much from it,thank you very much!FOB Business Forum/d6F8l(~8b0o;?)t
when i was in college,i had communicated with the foreigners,i only thought that the foreigners were pure，they were not so complex as our chinese,i don't kown if it is true,now  i have worked for almost 2 years,i contact with a few  other foreigners from different countrys,not so proundly,and they give me different impressions,maybe for the business reasons

if we are talking about business ,we need focus the toopic:product.quality,price,the payment terms,delivery and so on.we don't consider other things.

*f;Z/B8Z:Y#Q/A[A Professional Business Forum]First,pls don"t nevious,just relax,foreigner also your friend.just talk/chat with them as your friend fluently.[A Professional Business Forum])W9u/S3e!g3q
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if he like to talk something about quality products ,delivery time,price,payment term.you should tell him detail.www.fobshanghai.com#V(y:{:s9U$h)w
if he want to know more about our county,our curture,our city.our food.[A Professional Business Forum]*U6r"Y6X'd;w"E3E*m2Z!B
our tradditionary.
5Z5y&w'r2?&g-I*]www.fobshanghai.comwe can introduce to them one by one.or we can go out for a travel with them for some days..X*G%L4v1A8d2x l*u
At ones  words Customer is our god.Do what they want,tell what they what to konw.+@2p7U+G*Y$\:[
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