Even in down economies there are opportunities to expand a business. It is crucial to always be looking for different ways and places to grow a business. You may find that as a woman you have certain advantages. The key advantage you can give yourself, is the knowledge of the location, customs and cultures.
Nanay S.R.L. is a private organization that works with more than 100 knitters and handcrafters in La Paz, Bolivia.
It’s knitters and handcrafters have acquired high techniques in quality and design in the last eight years of exporting to the U.S.,
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With the economy in a slump, new business can be risky business. Yet in spite of the uncertainty, many women feel cautiously optimistic about their business opportunities. About 58 percent of women business owners polled in the October 2008 Business Risk Survey expect revenues to grow in 2009.
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MBA alumni from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business help young women entrepreneurs in Sichuan (a province in Western China with its capital in Chengdu) generate new forms of livelihood to keep their small communities alive.
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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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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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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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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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Welcome to Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global (WEGG), a social enterprise dedicated to revolutionizing how women entrepreneurs take their businesses global.
Expect over the course of the next decade that WEGG will help transition tens of millions of women business owners from local to global.
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