According to The Forum for International Trade Training (FITT), business growth often has to include an eye on international expansion. FITT provides women entrepreneurs the know-how they need to be successful in global markets.
In the article below, FITT covers 10 of the key learnings that were shared at a recent WPO 2023 Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum hosted by the Women Presidents Organization in Vegas.
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What a wonderful opportunity to be asked to moderate a panel discussion, “Intentional Growth Beyond Borders,” at the recent 2023 Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum (EEF) hosted by the Women Presidents Organization in Vegas from May 10 – 12th. What a turnout! But before I get to that,
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According to Camille Richardson, deputy assistant secretary, Office of Middle East and Africa, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration (ITA), while exporting requires resolve and hard work, ITA can be a helpful resource in planning and executing your export strategy in international markets. The ITA has recently been coordinating with women-led businesses in the United States to understand how best to support their recovery efforts from COVID-19,
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Many years ago I was the import/export expert for About.com, which was owned at the time by the New York Times. Now the site is under new management and called the balance (small business). The first article my editor asked me to write was something where everyone in 5 minutes could learn what I had learned over the course of 20 years running a profitable import/export business.
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Women hold up half the sky and according to the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Women’s Entrepreneurship report, they also are involved in a whole heck of a lot of startups – to the tune of more than 274 million women worldwide.
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wegginar presenters Penny Challender, President, Hayes Manufacturing and Ursula Wegrzynowicz (pictured below), Business Development Specialist, The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) recently discussed “Exporting Uncertainty to Confidence: Featuring Hayes Manufacturing.” At the end of the wegginar, we promised attendees we would follow up and address all their questions.
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“We try to make exporting as accessible to women as email.” – Laurel J. Delaney, President, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® …
Funded by the UK and called “SheTrades Outlook , a new tool is available that tracks the types and prevalence of trade policies designed to promote more trade by women-owned businesses.
The index initially covers 25 countries as wide-ranging as Australia and Canada to Mauritius,
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Whether novel Coronavirus time or not, wegg® continues to keep delivering on export education. Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global is the only U.S. nonprofit organization that focuses exclusively on export education for women SMEs.
Now that we are forced to work from home, it’s an ideal time to catch up on all our amazing virtual education offerings – from starting an e-commerce business,
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“Every morning,” K-Tec Systems CEO Cathy Koch says, “I put on a bracelet that says: ‘She Believed She Could, and So She Did.’ I believe a woman must believe ‘she can’ from the day she opens her business.”
Koch’s U.S.-based K-Tec Systems manufactures and assembles custom-designed thermocouples and wire harnesses.
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