This document discusses challenges with marketing to the Japanese market and provides recommendations. It notes that telemarketing is difficult because company departments and individual contacts regularly change. Advertisements are also challenging because people are not focused on business events when doing everyday activities like checking sports news or shopping. The best strategy is to promote events on specialized event listing sites like EventGlobe, where people actively search for relevant industry events. Advertising should target people in the purchase funnel stage of looking for events, rather than with general display ads.