News from PROFIT Xchange: Supporting and Celebrating Women in Business and brought to you by PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success (December 1, 2008). While you are at it, check out Canadian Business online.
Despite a slowdown in Canada’s economy,
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In mid-November, the World Bank Group released a database of laws that entail differential treatment of women and men in business called the Gender Law Library.
The Doing Business Gender Law Library is a collection of national legal provisions impacting women’s economic status in 181 economies.
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Arzu, meaning hope in Dari, is nonprofit organization that provides sustainable income to Afghan women by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave.
Arzu helps weavers and their families break the cycle of poverty by providing them above market compensation and access to education and health care.
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Yes, you read that right. In follow up to our last post, if you are stuck on how to grow global, get unstuck fast with this cool resource — the SME Toolkit — for yourself, your team, your business and your world.
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Although this Summit took place October 20 to 22, 2008 in London, we are reporting it after the fact because you will want to track what IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, does in the future for women entrepreneurs globally.
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A friend and colleague of mine, Rebecca Herwick (who I have invited to contribute to this blog), runs Global Products, Inc., a woman-owned full-service, worldwide promotional marketing company. GPI provides more than 750 Harley-Davidson domestic dealers and 450 international dealers with products to sell to the public.
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How do you stand out from the crowd, especially during such tough economic times? Take your cue from the queen of global marketing: Madonna.
Highly photogenic but not conventionally beautiful, she started out with a package of catchy dance-club pop tunes and crisp concert choreography,
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When I started my exporting company in the mid-eighties (now morphed into GlobeTrade.com), it took me nearly two years to make my first sale in Japan (yes, I counted the days!). I started off with careful research to determine Japanese consumer needs.
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More than 75 countries around the world are launching the first ever Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), November 17-23, 2008.
The brainchild of the Kauffman Foundation, Global Entrepreneurship Week is an international initiative designed to inspire,
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We wrote about this a couple of years ago as the Global Markets Advisor for Women Entrepreneurs Inc. but the information is just as relevant and timely for today. Here are five reasons why women are naturals at going global and how absolutely indispensable we are in international business:
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