October is Women’s Small Business Month.
In their comprehensive diagnostic toolkit, “Women-Owned Businesses in Cross-Border E-Commerce,” the authors (listed in the Acknowledgement section of report) say that e-commerce, which covers both physical goods ordered online and digital goods and services delivered over internet platforms, offers an increasingly important avenue for the growth and internationalization of women-owned MSMEs.
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Trade-related disruptions from the Covid-19 global pandemic are disproportionately impacting women. This is largely due to women’s overrepresentation in some of the sectors that have seen the sharpest falls in demand, such as travel and tourism, as well as manufacturing sectors such as footwear and apparel,
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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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All women entrepreneurs are making great progress expanding their businesses internationally, especially black women.
Claudine Moore is one such entrepreneur who has successfully led New York-based C Moore Media (CMM), an international strategic communications firm, since 2010, by providing specialized services for global clients.
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Below are answers to questions from our “Building a Successful E-Commerce Business and a Great Legacy During a Crisis” wegginar® on June 3, 2020 with Miranda Isaakidis (pictured far right), founder and CEO, Indulgence Spa Products.
W = wegg®
M = Miranda
W: Did you pivot your e-commerce business during the COVID-19 crisis in terms of marketing or product offering?
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In a Serbian town, survivors of domestic violence are sewing face masks for essential workers.
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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Join us for our wegg® Virtual Café today – every Tuesday for 40 minutes at 4PM CT – to share stories and ideas with one another about dealing with business issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. To connect, Zoom to: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/746553873
Meeting ID: 746-553-873 | Passcode: 781972
Come as you are.
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The Diana International Impact Report, released by Babson’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, shows that even as entrepreneurial women have become a significant force in the U.S. economy — with equal or majority ownership in 45% of all U.S. firms — most have difficulty raising growth capital.
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