🌍 🌎 🌏 Ready. Set. Let’s take on the world 10/20/23! 🌍 🌎 🌏 Registration is OPEN for the 8th Annual Global Small Business Forum (https://bit.ly/3PyjTv0) brought to you by lead sponsor Associated Bank and hosted by Foley Lardner. Full disclosure: I [Laurel Delaney] serve as the Director for the Forum. We can’t wait to see you Friday, October 20 from…
I was told lately there is no secret sauce to scaling a business, particularly globally. But there are tips you can apply to ensure your business model is in the ready state. Here are ten. Make sure you are doing well (financially and operationally) in any market first – because that will ensure your processes and systems will test out soundly globally. Get…
I prepared the presentation below for the American Express Grow Global event held in Chicago several years ago and it covers why you should scale your global business and how to overcome the two-market plateau in exports. It’s a timeless piece and there have been more than 152,000 views of the 22-slide deck. One of the key slides states: “Create a…
Happy New Year everyone! And to start you off on the right footing, I’ve provided a cheat sheet to taking your business global. This is one of my favorites because it covers everything you need to know in such a simplistic way. I’ve said this time and again: If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me what…
by Laurel J. Delaney, excerpt from Exporting: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably A distributor or importing wholesaler buys products from you (the seller or exporter in this case) in large volumes, and then warehouses, distributes, and resells them to its customers. It also takes care of after-sales service. It is the most common first-tier buyer you will find…
As UPS’s marketing director for small businesses, Jeremy Melis has his finger on the pulse of the global small business market. So you can imagine my excitement to connect with Jeremy to find out what he thinks are the latest trends in the small business sector, what scaling a business means and how technology has played a role in enabling…