John Yunker Is Back By Popular Demand for a wegginar® 12/3 on Deglobalization and AI: The Calm Before the Storm

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Register free of charge for the LIVE wegginar® on Wednesday, 12/3 at 11 AM CT.  Here's what John Yunker, Co-Founder of Byte Level Research will cover:

• Deglobalization is suppressing growth
• AI promises a new wave of global growth
• Smaller companies are best positioned to leverage AI

To learn more and to register, visit: https://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/2025/11/05/deglobalization-ai-the-calm-before-the-storm/

See you there!

Today in Global Small Business: Deglobalization & AI with John Yunker on 12/3 at 11 AM CT (wegginar)

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

• Attend the next wegg® wegginar® with John Yunker, co-founder of Byte Level Research on 12/3 at 11 AM CT when he discusses:  "Deglobalization & AI:  The Calm Before the Storm."  The program is free of charge to attend thanks to wegg's sponsors.
• Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global's 10-year anniversary on Thursday, November 6, 2025 in Chicago at the Tortoise Supper Club was a HUGE success.  Photos can be found here (courtesy of Lisa Miller Photography).  For those who couldn't attend and want to support the organization, go here.  Become a wegg® Angel!
• Quote of the week:  "Globalization is here to stay but not as we know it." – Guy Miller, Chief Market Strategist & Economist at Zurich Insurance
• David J. Lynch is worried about what happens next on globalization.
• Global shifts, or inflection points.
• The world as we know it is a product of globalization – and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.

The Exceptional Work of John Yunker – Deglobalization & AI: The Calm Before the Storm

©2015 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved.

As John Yunker says, "While reviewing websites for the 2025 Web Globalization Report Card I was struck by two things:

1. Deglobalization has had a visible (and negative) impact on global websites
2. AI is also having an impact, though you have to look closely to see it

Combined, I believe we are in the midst of the calm before the storm."

Read his entire provocative and insightful report here (don't miss it).

Thanks for your readership everyone.  With this post for April, we are more than 108,000 readers.  In March, we hit over 160K readers!

What Is the World's Most Multilingual Website?

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John Yunker – web globalization geek at Byte Level Research and also a prolific author of books, plays and short stories – always does his thorough research and has the answer to the question:  What is the world's most multilingual website? 

He says, "One might assume that tech leaders like Facebook and Google lead the internet in languages."

He goes on to say, "Yet according to recent analysis, the two most linguistically fluent websites on the internet are managed by not-for-profit organizations: The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Wikipedia."

Read on to discover the world's most multilingual website.

The One and Only Web Globalization Report Card 2024 by John Yunker

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I've been a fan of John Yunker's for more than two decades.  No one knows web globalization like John does.  He's the expert of all so-called experts on this topic.  Check out some past post about John here. 

The exciting news is that he is finishing up his latest popular report card, "The Web Globalization Report Card 2024," available in two weeks.  Meanwhile, here's a glimpse of what the report offers.  He adds:

"I can tell you now that I've seen a small but notable rebound in languages, which is nice to see. Last year was the first time we witnessed a net loss in overall languages. Looks like the average number of languages supported by the leading global brands will come in at 34 languages."

Reach out to John to learn more about his company and discover a special package deal he is offering that includes a one-hour presentation on "10 Lessons from 20 Years of Web Globalization."

His email is listed in the lower left hand corner of his website: https://bytelevel.com/.    

Presented by John Yunker: Web Globalization Tips for Small Businesses (wegginar® on 6/1/22)

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There is no one who knows web globalization better than Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global's next wegginar® presenter John Yunker, co-founder of Byte Level Research.  John is back by popular demand! Yes! Let me challenge you a bit to see what you know before I entice you to register for our (free of charge) wegginar, "Think Big; Think Global:  Web Globalization Tips for Small Businesses," taking place on tomorrow, Wednesday, June 1st LIVE at 11AM CT: https://bit.ly/382t2fC 

• What is your global gateway strategy?
• Are you having trouble with abandoned shopping carts?
• Do you understand the importance of body language and photos you use on your website?
• Do you use a map icon to signify global on your website?
• Colors carry a significant cultural, political, and personal meaning; what colors are you using on your website? 
• Are you using flags as a navigation aid on your website? 

All of this is covered in John Yunker's book, Think Outside the Country: A Guide to Going Global and Succeeding in the Translation Economy, one of my all-time favorites.

But back to John's wegginar ... he will be covering:

• The second language you should add to your website
• Essential web globalization terminology and trends
• Tips for going global on the cheap
• The dangers of using flags on your website 

And, the best part is we will be able to pick John's brain at the end of his presentation for 10 minutes to ASK any questions you have. Let's do it and get smarter today on web globalization, together.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/382t2fC

weggchat™: How to Expand Your Global Reach Online with John Yunker

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Learn from web globalization expert John Yunker at an upcoming weggchat™on how to expand your global reach online, Wednesday, May 1st, at 11:00 a.m. Central time.  Discover:

• How to get more customers to your website.
• Why global e-commerce is so challenging.
• What the latest trends are in web globalization.
• How to globalize a website on a shoestring.
• + more!

It's free to join the weggchat™.  You just need a Twitter account. Instructions on how to participate can be found here.

The complimentary educational program is brought to you by Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global™ and sponsored by:  Bank of America, Harris Bricken, FedEx, IBM, GlobalCare Clinical Trials and Greensfelder.

Customers Want a Global Reach. Give It To Them

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What's holding you back from going global?  Is it no demand from current customers?  Lack of personnel resources to expand? Reach maximum capacity on all fronts -- people, manufacturing and financially, for example?  Or are you afraid of expanding into markets in which English is not the dominant language?

Learn more here ... but you really should adopt a more worldly outlook.

And if you want to determine how to get more customers to visit your website, register for the free WEGGinar™ hosted by Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global and presented by web globalization and language expert John Yunker.  Sign up here.

Today in Global Small Business: Save Water Co. Wins International Entrepreneurship Award

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

• Houston woman Katie Anderson of Save Water Co. wins international entrepreneurship award with her water conservation business.
• How to tune up your website for global customers (n/c webinar on 5/10); learn from the expert, John Yunker, about what it takes to accommodate online customers worldwide.
• Who knew:  Oracle is a global business.
• Trade secretary [Philippines] Ramon Lopez pushes SMEs into global space by helping them grow their exports.
• India's leather exports poised to hit US $27 billion by 2020.
• See how charity is first for a global business development boss.
• Oh, one more ... Happy Small Business Week.  Kudos to all the global small business owners who keep our economy humming.

Oh Happy Canada Day!

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Today is Canada Day.  To celebrate Canada's birthday, Daniella D'Alimonte at the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) put together a wonderful article offering practical and playful insights into how to do business in Canada.  She pulled on some leading experts - from Jim Foley, Director at the Turner Center for Entrepreneurship at Bradley University to John Yunker at Byte Level Research and we are happy she asked us to participate too :-).

Read the entire article:  O it's great to do international trade with Canada!

An Interview With Web Globalization Expert John Yunker

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I interview John Yunker (below) who during his professional career has helped thousands of companies and organizations take their websites global—or improve their existing global websites.

Here are the seven questions he addresses:

1. What are two examples of the worst global websites and why?
2. In terms of localizing a website, what’s the most challenging part of it? And is there a quick solution on how to overcome it?
3. You recently wrote an interesting blog post about WhatsApp: Another “translation worthy” success story (http://www.globalbydesign.com/2014/02/20/whatsapp-another-translation-worthy-success-story/). What’s the lesson for small-business owners who want to become big and global someday?
4. GoDaddy is marketing the new top-level domain INTERNATIONAL. Do you recommend it or not?
5. When a company is ready to translate its website, what factors should it consider before hiring a translation agency?
6. You’ve often written about the danger of using flags on global gateways. Can you explain why?
7. Looking into a crystal ball, what’s in store for the future on conducting business worldwide? What should we be paranoid about (disruptive changes ahead, for example) and what should we look forward to?

Read the entire interview:  Web Globalization Tips

Related posts over the years about John Yunker.

Who's Worth Following on Twitter About E-Commerce?

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Ajeet Khurana, serial entrepreneur, educator, mentor, and angel investor, writes a strong piece on who's worth following on Twitter when it comes to providing expertise in international e-commerce.

Read:  10 International Ecommerce Experts Your Business Should Follow on Twitter.  We, of course, are partial to Ajeet for mentioning one of our favorites, John Yunker (@JohnYunker)

How to Succeed at Exporting

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Founder of Global by Design, John Yunker, interviews Laurel Delaney on what it takes to succeed at exporting.  

Read the entire interview:  How to succeed at exporting:  A Q&A with Laurel Delaney

John Yunker Helps You Get Lucky with Pricing in Asia

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I have always been a fan of web globalization expert John Yunker who is big advocate for the translation of software and websites (see Global by Design and Byte Level Research, companies he manages).  In the article below, he says:

"Numbers sometimes mean much more than the data they represent. People often have lucky numbers that carry emotional significance to them."  He goes on to say:  "But lucky and unlucky numbers can vary by culture. When selling into Greater China, Japan, and Korea, retailers need to be aware of these numbers and use them to their advantage when possible."

Read the entire article to find out how to avoid the unlucky numbers in your international pricing strategy and concentrate on the lucky ones:

How Your Pricing Strategy Can Bring You Good Luck in Asia

Other related articles on John Yunker posted here at The Global Small Business Blog

Mr. Potato Head Goes Global

©Laurel Delaney 2011.  All rights reserved.  Mr Potato Head.

To John Yunker ... I too am a fan of Mr. Potato Head (as shown).  Delighted to see he's going global in a serious and effective way.

So everyone knows what I am referring to, read:

Global by Design's The Mr. Potato Head Global Gateway

Happy 2011 From The Global Small Business Blog

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And on the first day of the new year, do some productive reading to get your business even more global.  Try:

The Art of the Global Gateway by John Yunker
(Google Books here).

Reach out to the e-world for business.  It starts with web globalization and John Yunker can teach you a thing or two about it.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2011!

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney, The Global Small Business Blog

Twitter Takes On the World

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Great post over at Global by Design on how companies are going global with Twitter.

Read it here.

Don't Pretend You Speak Languages You Don't

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That's a quote from John Yunker, Global By Design and it's one of his three rules of global gateway design. Good stuff.

Bing vs. Google on "I Love You"

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John Yunker at Global by Design elaborates on the difference between using Bing (owned by Microsoft) versus Google on a simple search string translation of the words: "I love you."

Read more here.

Why not just go straight to: Bing translator?
Or how about Google translator?

Full disclosure: I'm a HUGE Google fan (no affiliation whatsoever). John is a Microsoft program manager and co-founder of Byte Level Research.

Weak Dollar Has Small Businesses Thinking Globally

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The New York Times now reports on how the weak dollar has small businesses thinking globally. If you make your products in the U.S.A., think exports.

A hat tip to friend and colleague John Yunker at the Global By Design blog for the nudge.

Up next: Another guest expert weighs in with her comments about the 'R' word tomorrow. Stay tuned.