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How to Find Buyers

The most important thing for any business, is finding a customer or a buyer for your product. The way businesses survive is by making products or services that customers want to buy. This is the reason that so many businesses focus on the customer or the buyer experience. A lot of small businesses and international [...]

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How to Do a Video Call

Wondering about how to do a video call? You’re not alone. Communications technology has advanced to make global trade and international business easier than ever.  Email, instant messaging, smart phones, laptops, webcams, free video-calling, and tablets have enabled business to be conducted from wherever and whenever. So much technology, yet so little knowledge about how [...]

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Top 5 Shipping Companies

Yesterday I did an article on the best ways of doing international money transfer, so today I felt it would be a good idea to list top 5 shipping companies that are the best shipping providers for businesses. Every business has different shipping needs, especially since their are so many different kinds of cargo to ship. [...]

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Best 5 International Money Transfer Companies

Every business has one goal, when providing services or selling products, which is to get paid for those services or products. As more and more businesses engage in trade with businesses overseas, there has been a rise in demand for payment services which are safe, easy and trusted. Not a easy combination, especially since trust is not [...]

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Negotiating with the Chinese

There’s a great article in Businessweek, called How To Strike A Deal in China by Juan Antonio Fernandez. In the article, Juan points out a number of things that I feel that foreign companies should know whenever they are doing business with their Chinese business partners. According to Fernandez, China is a country that loves [...]

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How to Find Suppliers for Your Business?

One of the hardest things about running a business is finding cheap and reliable suppliers that you can trust. Finding reliable suppliers who will sell to you at low cost is no easy task. One of the reasons that a company like Wal-Mart has been so successful is because its size, Wal-mart can negotiate much [...]

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How to Start Your Own Import Export Business

I recently received a request from a reader about writing an article about how to get into the import/export business, so I though I would take a crack at it. Clearly starting a new business is no easy endeavor and with so many business books out there, its easy to get overwhelmed with information. So what I [...]

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Best Countries to Open a Business

I have been doing a business section on various countries for the longest time, but some may be asking what are the best countries to do business and invest in? There are a number of factors that go into making a country a successful destination for business and investment. I have noticed that metrics which [...]

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5 Business Tips from Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was one of the most dynamic entrepreneurs of the late 20th century and will probably be remembered as one of the savviest innovator of the 21st century. His legacy being Apple inc and the various revolutionary products that it created. Even though Apple produced technologically complex products, they were produced under relatively simple [...]

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Supplier Connection

The biggest success a entrepreneur can have when starting s small business, is getting a big customer. Small businesses or small suppliers look for big businesses to buy their products, so that small businesses have a steady stream of orders to fulfill and make money off. Big companies are starting to  realize that there is [...]

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