How to Become a Micro-Multinational Small Business

Here are 5 steps that a startup or a small business can take to become a micro-multinational.

Read the entire article here.

Illustration credit here.

Global Gaga

My latest contribution for Small Business Trends at the American Express OPEN Forum:

How to Market Your Business Lady Gaga Style

Pictured:  Lady Gaga

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney, for The Global Small Business Blog

When It Comes to Going Global, Preparation is Everything

Read our esteemed colleague (and friend) Anita's Campbell's (founder of Small Business Trends) great post:

How to Prepare Your Business to Go Global

She offers five helpful tips to consider before you take the leap.

Posted by:  The Global Small Business Blog

Make Your Website International Ready

Here's how.

Our friend and colleague, Anita Campbell, over at the popular Small Business Trends, writes a piece commissioned by UPS entitled:

How to Make Your Website Ready for International Business

Be sure to read it.

Related resource that may be of interest:  The Best Global Websites and Why (Q&A)

Graphic source here.  More on that here for the ultimate international-ready website.

Posted by:  The Global Small Business Blog

Are You a Loosey-Goosey Leader?

Find out at my latest installment for Small Business Trends and the American Express OPEN Forum:

5 Signs of 'Loosey-Goosey' Management
by Laurel Delaney

Illustration credit: American Express OPEN Forum

Posted by: The Global Small Business Blog

Leverage Failure to Boost Your Global Small Business

My latest contribution for Small Business Trends via the American Express OPEN Forum. If you find it useful (which I hope you do), please Tweet about it.

"Making the Most of Failure"

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Learn Who's Doing What in One of the World's Most Populated Countries

My latest installment for Small Business Trends/American Express OPEN Forum: Global Sophistication: Selling in China is All the Rage

Snippet:

2. Starbucks. Big plan at the moment: Step up expansion into huge markets in China. Why? When you over-expand locally and entrench the marketplace, there’s nowhere else to grow but outside your own borders. China is it for Starbucks. Their plan is to open thousands of cafes in China and achieve great success in one of the largest markets in the world.

Tip for small businesses: When local sales begin to weaken, retrench and take steps to rejuvenate sales with a global strategy.

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The Global Small Business World in 2010

Our Global Small Business World 2010 trend piece is ready for viewing over at our favorite trend hub: Small Business Trends!

Read every word here:

10 Predictions, Forecasts
and Trends That Will Shape Our
Global Small Business
World in 2010