What are three major considerations to be made by those thinking of starting a business in Saudi Arabia ?

1- get smart people to work  with including Staff & good bank to do your Transactions

2- market your self get strong sales team 

3-Complete you Governmental Procedures 

I am not a consultant in middle East but let me give you a general overview of starting up a business in another country or foreign country.

1. Economic Environment: income levels of potential customers, inflation rates, interest rates in case of loan aquisition & debt financing, exhange rates, business cycle for instance look out for a boom but not recession or depression, tarrifs.

2. Social/ cultural Environment: attitudes & values of potential customers & publics, education levels, beliefs & supersitions, Aesthetics like symbols, arts used need to be understood clearly.

3. political/legal Environment: stability of government, international relations, government attitude toward foreign investment, price legislation, import & export controls, informal relations betwen government officials & businesses. 4. Technological aspects: trends, gains in productivity for instance more output per units of input, reduced costs. 5. Micro Environment: nature of suppliers, extent of competition, marketing intermediaries, publics-insitutions that may be interested in our products, number of potential customers. 6. Internal Environment: nature of human resource you are toemployee, capital requirements, materials & effect of stakeholders.

1.You must have a good knowledge of the region before starting your strategies.2.You must have a professional agenda of Profit and lose in the same region, etc;.3.You supposed to be the perfect sales and marketing manager to hire the proficient sales and marketing team who will be the most important factor before lunching your business.

Find a good sponsor 

Hire a legal advisor

Chose a suitable business partner

1-      Financial stability and  reliable sponsorship system.

2-      Excellent business team with successful market strategies.

3-      Detailed business plan/ design  and feasibility study.