Globial Talks Business

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 [...]

The global trading environment arena is changing faster and faster by the day, and companies are having a hard time keeping up with the change. This is where trading companies come in and help those businesses navigate the vast flows of international trade. According to the WTO, global trade surged by approximately 15% in 2010. In [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  Today we’re going to cover small businesses, micr0-multinationals and how technology plays a huge role in doing business today. Foreign Policy Magazine recently published a report with an overarching theme  on future trends and how they will play out over the course of the century.  There was one article/trend that I thought should be [...]

You’ve found a factory in China, and before ordering your product and booking inspections, you are taking the intelligent step to visit personally to ensure that your factory is acceptable and its quality control standards are up to snuff. Great! But do you know enough of the basics of the culture to interact with the native Chinese without being too disoriented?