“We try to make exporting as accessible to women as email.” – Laurel J. Delaney, President, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® …
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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What if there was a clinical trial that could save your life, but traveling to the clinic for the procedure is out of the question because leaving home could compromise your health?
This is the kind of scenario that drove Gail Adinamis to found GlobalCare Clinical Trials.
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TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda, acting head of Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) and Jessica Schnabel, global head, Banking on Women, Financial Institutions Group (FIG), the women who are spearheading the development of International Finance Corporations’s (IFC’s) latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for women-owned businesses to help them grow globally,
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We could not help but notice the tie-in to wegg® women concerning the recent movie “Maiden.” How so? The “Maiden” is based on a true story that goes like this:
An all-female crew in a virtually all-male sport challenges the open ocean,
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The Female Entrepreneurs Institute has reported that there is a new generation of wildly successful business owners, who are all under thirty-five years of age. The ‘millennipreneur’ model of business has proven to be advantageous worldwide. The Institute explains,
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According to Bruce Billson, former Minister for Small Business and brand ambassador for Efic, the Australian Government’s export credit agency, female exporters have three key traits:
- They have big ambitions
- They draw on life experience to navigate new markets
- They persevere to overcome barriers
He goes on to say:
Many of the female exporters I encountered set out in business with a vision to take on the world.
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The Obama Administration is committed to boosting global trade for women entrepreneurs and business owners. They also want to create new export opportunities for them. Here’s why:
- Pay more. Average pay at women-owned exporters is approximately 1.6 times higher than average pay at non-exporting female-owned businesses.
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Over the next two years, Australia will serve as a champion to improve the capacity of trade promotion agencies in the APEC region to support women exporters says Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls, Natasha Stott Despoja.
While leading Australia’s delegation to the APEC Women and the Economy Forum (WEF) in Beijing,
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