Today in Global Small Business: Why You Should Scale Your Global Business

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Only 2 percent of women-owned businesses export good and services.
• Why you should scale your global business (presentation by Laurel Delaney for American Express).
• Strategies for approaching a foreign company for importing.
• NY-based gourmet grocery store and cafe chain Dean & Deluca expanding globally.
• How to grow a startup the hard way (including taking it global).
• Can the Hello Kitty Japanese brand get any more global?  Yes, it's coming to a theater near you!

Today in Global Small Business: Rise of the Rest Road Trip

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• President Obama's Export Council in June discussed letters of recommendations to be delivered and adopted soon.
• Discover four ways to achieve new growth in developing countries.
• The reasons to go global and why so many small businesses are choosing to do so.
• Is something getting lost in the Hello Kitty translation?
• Why Yahoo is going back to the drawing board on its e-commerce strategy.
• The Rise of the Rest Road Trip with AOL founder and investor Steve Case.

Goodbye Kitty?

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In a bid to raise its international profile, Tokyo has appointed three young women as cultural envoys because they represent Japan's long-running craze for all things cute.

Does that mean Hello Kitty (pictured above) is history? Let's hope not.

Read more here.