As with entering any new market, you must do your homework, be at the right place at the right time, select a good idea, rely on a little luck and have the finances to support your effort. Dubai is a worth a look but explore with caution.
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We posted about this fabulous article on our sister site, The Global Small Business Blog. Women continue to embrace entrepreneurship and forge relationships across borders. Forming global partnerships is a way to expand internationally.
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Eastern Cape businesswomen are on a mission through an Eastern Cape cooperative to crack into international markets. Thanks to the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI), more than thirty-three business people are participating in in the 30th International Fair of Luanda Trade Exhibition popularly known as FILDA,
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Internet Usage and World Population Statistics above are for June 2010. Estimated Internet users are 1,966, 514,816 or more than 28 percent of the world population is using the Internet. Asia offers the most users.
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Whether you are a B2B, B2C or C2C, going global is all the rage these days and really not all that difficult to get started. There are many government initiatives, aiming to encourage more women-led SMEs to assess their global expansion opportunities and demystify some of the barriers to entry new markets,
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Britain’s small business exporters are a powerful force: women entrepreneurs.
One woman’s experience:
“At the moment we are looking at 25 percent of our business exporting. We are hoping to increase that to 60 percent and we are pretty much looking to double turnover [to £500,000].”
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With her no-nonsense Midwestern (a Ball State University graduate) sensibility, American businesswoman Angela Ahrendts (pictured above) has brought the U.S. $2 billion iconic fashion label Burberry to the top of its global game in just four short years.
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See how 50-year old Indian Artisan Kakuben Lalabhai Parmar (pictured far right) is an advocate for women here.
Snippet here:
“I already experienced the biggest change in my life,” she said,
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Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), names its apparel brand Hansiba, after a 92 year old woman, and takes it global.
Hansiba is 92 years old but her capacity for work can put a young athlete to shame.
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A very thoughtful post by Manuel Bueno, NextBillion.net, Development through Enterprise:
It still baffles me that there are not more BoP businesses making use of women’s skills to enhance their economic and social bottom lines.
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