Today in Global Small Business: wegg® Serves International Women Every Day

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We salute and celebrate all women entrepreneurs and business owners who make the world their business!

• Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®, a nonprofit that educates women entrepreneurs and business owners on taking a business global, is powered up everyday and ready to serve the needs of women who aspire to take their businesses global.
• Female entrepreneurs face challenges when pursuing business overseas. Here are ways to overcome them.
• The secret sauce to getting more women to export.
• Quote of the week: "Anyone who wants to export, can.  The world awaits." – Laurel J. Delaney
• Tune in to the How She Went Global® podcast to listen, learn, and celebrate the accomplishments of women who have taken their businesses global!
• SCORE+wegg® March 8 at 1PM ET (n/c): Growing Your Business Globally - Three Bold Women Business Owners Unearth the Hidden Gems to Taking a Business Global
• It's time for women to take on the world!

Today in Global Small Business: The How to Import-Export Edition

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

• How to start an import-export business.
• How to become a middleman or middlewoman for imports and exports.
• Quote of the week: “Anyone who wants to export, can.  The world awaits.  The essential element needed to be successful exporting is readiness.  The rest is mechanics and know-how." – Laurel Delaney, best-selling author, "Exporting:  The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably," President, Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®
• How to master exporting and be kept up to date on it.
• Access (free) online education and sell your products worldwide.
• Read articles that inspire and enable you to take on the world.

Best Summer Reading List to Learn How to Go Global

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There are so many good books on globalization -- some old, some new.  Summer is a great time to get caught up on them.  I had to think a long time here on which books to feature -- but I made my selection.  Kick back.  Relax.  Enjoy.  Ponder how you plan to take on the world before the start of a new year.

Get going.  Read these 10 books on globalization.

Happy Holidays From The Global Small Business Blog!

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Merry Christmas and

Happy 2015.

Go Take On the World!

Wal-Mart Prepares To Take On The World To Rev Up Global Revenue

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With international Web sales lagging behind major competitors such as Amazon, Wal-Mart is stepping up its overseas e-commerce expansion, looking for staff, talking to vendors and mapping its approach to what could become the world's biggest Internet initiative.

Rest assure we will be reaching out to them to assist because we know exactly how this should be done.

Snapshot from article:

Wal-Mart already pulls in the most sales of any retailer—$405 billion last year, including about $100 billion from international operations in 14 countries. While the company doesn't disclose Internet sales, indications are the retailer has a lot of growing room. Trade publication Internet Retailer estimated that Wal-Mart's e-commerce sales in 2008, the latest projection available, were $1.74 billion. That compared with No. 1 ranked Amazon.com Inc. at $19.2 billion and No. 2 Staples Inc., at $7.7 billion. Other brick-and-mortar retailers like Office Depot Inc., OfficeMax Inc., Sears Holding Corp. and Best Buy Co. outranked Wal-Mart in Web sales, with Wal-Mart entering the list at No. 13. This was before Wal-Mart said it was making a great push to improve online sales.

Read the entire article here.

Related post: Playing the "Wal-Mart-China" Global Game

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The Need to Go Global in 2010

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We featured the report, Taking on the World, in a recent edition of our monthly e-newsletter, Borderbuster, but for those of you who don't subscribe, we think it's important enough to re-highlight here. The report is published by KPMG Canada.

Growth opportunities for Canadian private companies don't always come from north of the border or sea to sea. Increasingly, foreign markets are the places to be if an organization is to achieve maximum growth in today's global economy. Indeed, Canada's future prosperity depends to a large extent on Canadian businesses' ability to compete globally by expanding successfully beyond the country's borders, thus taking full advantage of global markets and opportunities.
The report documents the extent of private companies' foreign operations to date; sheds light on the benefits of global expansion for private companies, and the key challenges and risks of doing so; and provides information about local employee and supply resources in foreign markets.
Access report: Taking on the World

Emerging Market Companies Take On The World

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Emerging markets are not merely generating economic growth. They are also producing companies that are worth investing in, and that are even starting to take on and beat the best of the developed world’s multinationals.

Find out who they are and where they operate here.

And while you are at it, check out the Economist country profiles to figure out a plan on how to work with these champions.

Take On The World

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Should a big company like Sony appoint the midsize ad agency that helped make Bravia flat-panel television famous in Europe, Fallon Worldwide, to lead a global ad campaign?

If it were your decision, would you run ads for every part of the world with one unified message? Is it better to make ads that can run anywhere in the world or to tailor spots to regional sensibilities?

Tough questions. Find out more here.