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"In the future, there will be two kinds of enterprises: those that go global and those that die." ~ Laurel Delaney
Today the status quo is a prescription for disaster. The business climate of the 21st century is characterized by speed, change, and chaos. Companies have to continuously learn, adapt, innovate, create value, provide superior service and constantly look for new customers. How can this occur on a larger scale if we choose not do business with the world? It can't.
And did you know that 95 percent of the world's population lives outside the United States? That going global isn't really all that difficult? That when you determine your business is ready to go global, you are well on your way? That resources are aplenty on the Internet to help you expand overseas? Chances are, you're one of many business owners too busy to pay attention to anything other than running your company.
My goal here is to help you get your arms around a host of issues to help you expand your business globally.
Today the status quo is a prescription for disaster. The business climate of the 21st century is characterized by speed, change, and chaos. Companies have to continuously learn, adapt, innovate, create value, provide superior service and constantly look for new customers. How can this occur on a larger scale if we choose not do business with the world? It can't.
And did you know that 95 percent of the world's population lives outside the United States? That going global isn't really all that difficult? That when you determine your business is ready to go global, you are well on your way? That resources are aplenty on the Internet to help you expand overseas? Chances are, you're one of many business owners too busy to pay attention to anything other than running your company.
My goal here is to help you get your arms around a host of issues to help you expand your business globally.
Built to Borderbust: A Simple Approach to Growing Global
Articles for getting started in the global marketplace. Read on to find out which advice suits you.
- Is It Time To Go Global?
- Despite the hurdles you'll have to jump, finding --and taking advantage of -- international opportunities is a smart way to grow your business.
- 20 Factors to Consider Before Going Global
- Before you set one foot on another shore, read these tips to improve your chances of global success.
- Targeting Your First Overseas Market
- Where in the world should you take your e-business first? Have a look.
- Segmenting Your Market
- Another important kind of thinking-through that will help you focus your research is categorizing, or segmenting, your product and target market.
- 8 Clues To Help You Go Global
- Are you ready? The first clue in getting started is to develop your in-house export dream team (link might require registration).
- 7 Degrees Toward Global Marketing Nirvana
- Whether you are a one-person service e-shop or a multi-billion-dollar traditional manufacturing company, going global is a matter of survival. Follow this 7-degree action plan to global marketing nirvana (link might require registration) and you are well on your way to success.
- A Checklist for Preparing Your Package To Go Global
- For those small business owners going overseas for the first time, this article will help you understand culture's impact on packaging.
- Going Global: Can You Afford It?
- Determining how much you can afford to invest in your international expansion efforts can be a tricky proposition. Will it be based on ten percent of your domestic business profits or on a pay-as-you-can-afford process? Find out here.
Keep Pushing Boundaries
A thoughtful, focused and long-term approach to making cross-border contacts is the best. Your objective is to start, cultivate and maintain productive customer relationships and, ultimately, to build an enduring global empire.
- 10 Predictions, Forecasts and Trends That Will Shape Our Global Small Business World in 2010
Wake up, world, to today's way of doing business. This is no time to hide behind a rock and think you have every good reason not to produce results in 2010. Guess again. All vital signs on globalization indicate that the best is yet to come. Find out why here.- Top 10 Global Trends for Small Businesses for 2009
As the Fed cut short-term interest rates to nearly zero, exporting continues to remain strong. I am not an economist, nor do I pretend to be, so I had to do some serious critical thinking and deep reflecting about everything I have read over the past couple of months (looking for recurring themes and patterns that become trends) that might tell us what we need to know to prepare our businesses for globalization in 2009. Here's what I came up with.- Reimagining the Future: 12 Global Small Business Trends to Watch in 2008
- Twelve (12) global small business trends to watch in 2008, trends that can be embraced by any culture and will add value to any nation.
- Where in the World Are Your Cross-Border Customers?
Finding cross-border customers for your products or services can be accomplished by means of a range of programs, largely government-sponsored, including trade shows, trade missions, and related trade networking services. This article introduces a number of these services and how you can take advantage of them.- How To Do Business in Central America and in the Dominican Republic
Once the ultimate destination spot for busy executives interested in adventure or a relaxing time, Central America and the Dominican Republic (Caribbean) are rapidly becoming the hot new hubs for international free trade. With more than 47 million people and 80 percent of goods from the U.S. now imported to this region duty-free, this area is an economic force to be reckoned with.
Here's a closer look at why and how a new trade agreement is propelling this region to get back its global groove.- How To Take Your Small Business Global
"The fight-for-your-life attitude caused by extreme uncertain times along with the explosive growth of the Internet has leveled the playing field and emancipated the entrepreneurial and small business process," said Laurel Delaney, CEO of GlobeTrade.com. "There is no end in sight."
Borderbusterland
Feel free to take a test ride, explore, dare, dream, learn and visit for as long as you like. The world awaits you.
- GlobeTrade.com
GlobeTrade.com is a management consulting and marketing solutions company designed to help entrepreneurs and small businesses go global. But don't be fooled by that fancy description ... you can afford to pay a visit because everything featured here -- beyond the core consultancy practice -- is free. For example, you can take an IQ test to determine whether you're qualified to go global or learn how to convert currency in a flash. We guarantee that by the time you finish globesurfing, you will be busting borders in no time at all. If not, then call 773-381-1700 or simply send an email to the Lensmaster.- The Global Small Business Blog
- How coincidental ... it's called Borderbuster and this blog walks the talk and talks the walk on global business. You won't want to miss it.
- Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global
- Bringing global opportunity to women-owned businesses worldwide.
- Laurel Delaney Company
- Laurel Delaney Company is a professional services firm specializing in global entrepreneurial development. Through LaurelDelaney.com, the company offers practical and relevant information that empowers individuals to become successful global entrepreneurs.
- Global Guru: Shaking Things Up, Making Things Happen
- This brave new global economy of ours offers unlimited opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses. International trade increases sales and profits, enhances a company's prestige, creates jobs and offers a valuable way to level seasonal fluctuations. In today's turbulent global market, it's the entrepreneurs and small business owners of the world who are busting borders, discovering unlimited potential and changing the shape of the world economy.
Find out why your small business needs to go global today, and how to do it. - Global Village Archives
- Laurel Delaney writes a monthly global business column for Entrepreneur magazine. Keep up with her contributions here.
- MarketingProfs Daily Fix
- Laurel Delaney blogs on global marketing and global business for the biggest and best marketing place on the planet. Keep up with her entries here.
- OPEN Forum by American Express OPEN
- Laurel Delaney blogs on global small business for American Express OPEN.
Borderbusting Books: The Magnificent Seven
Books that change how the world does business
Borderbusting Books: Fab Five for 2009
Books that help you take on the world
Borderbusting Books: Five Favs For 2008
Books that change how the world does business
Borderbusting eBooks
Settle in to read a good global e-book
E-books don't weigh anything so if you're stuck in front of a computer all day anyway, why not take a peak?
- Entrepreneurial Obsession
This FREE e-book helps you discover thirteen ways to create a brighter future for your business.- GODZILLA Global Marketing!
This e-book helps you understand the importance of local and global strategic alliances, how to develop a high global business IQ and how to build a living global brand -- all essential to growing a successful global business.- Insanely Global!
A crazy -- insane! -- collection of essays that you can read one at a time or all at once for they offer insights, tips, resources and a how-to aspect to going global.
Top 10 Places To Help You Grow Global
- 1. The Federation of International Trade Associations
- Furnishes trade leads, news, events and links to 7,000 international trade-related Web sites.
- 2. globalEDGE
- Offers global business knowledge, including country insights, resource desk, knowledge room, community forums and a free newsletter.
- 3. GlobeTrade.com
- Helps entrepreneurs and small businesses expand internationally.
- 4. International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Serves as a one-stop shop for those interested in expanding internationally.
- 5. Kompass
- Supplies global business information on more than 1.9 million companies spanning across 70 countries.
- 6. Office of International Trade, U.S. Small Business Administration
- Provides localized assistance on global opportunities.
- 7. The U.S. Commercial Service, BuyUSA
- Serves as your global business partner for exporting to or importing from the United States.
- 8. The U.S. Government Export Portal
- Provides online trade resource and one-on-one assistance for your international business.
- 9. The World Bank
- World Bank works in countries spanning the planet so they feature a vast amount of information on just about every place imaginable. Dig deep to search for what you need -- it's there. In particular, check out their 'Countries' section which highlights briefings, strategies and results for A-Z country listings.
- 10. PIERS
- Provides (for a fee) business competitive intelligence based on manifests and bills of lading that document import-export activity.
50 Ways To Go Global
- How do you go global?
Let me count the ways. Here are fifty
that will help get you started.
Conversations from The Global Small Business Blog
Helps entrepreneurs and small businesses go global
The Global Small Business Blog reports on global entrepreneurship and provides occasional updates from "Borderbuster," GlobeTrade.com's famous monthly, 12-page e-newsletter, available free-of-charge on a subscriber-basis only (see below).
Conversations from Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global
Bringing global opportunity to women-owned businesses worldwide.
You are one of 150-200 million female entrepreneurs worldwide. Your business is currently primarily local. It might be a fuel company, a basket retailer, or a construction firm - three months young or a century old.Whatever your specific situation, your enterprise could reach its next level and levels beyond your wildest dreams. The way there is through globalization. Here, we show you the way.
Borderbuster e-Newsletter
Once a month get news you can use on how to go global
Like what you've read so far? Then subscribe to Borderbuster. It's free!
- Sign up here for Borderbuster!
Borderbuster briefs you every month on the basics in all aspects of running a global business -- from finding customers to keeping them, from shipping products to getting paid, from learning about a different culture to becoming a true global netizen.
NEW GlobeTrade Wiki Community
This one's for you!
The GlobeTrade wiki community is your place to build, connect, communicate and grow global with your peers!
We hope you like what you see, learn a lot in the process and discover there are no boundaries to growing your business.
We hope you like what you see, learn a lot in the process and discover there are no boundaries to growing your business.
- GlobeTrade Wiki Community
- To join, click above on GlobeTrade Wiki Community. It's complimentary and only takes about one minute to get started. Have fun and see you there!
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