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Go Global this Global Entrepreneurship Week

Enterprise Nation will be hosting a week-long series of online and offline events and activities to help you Go Global and take your business to the world.
Pay just £25 by clicking here and using discount code EN and have access to the main conference on Tuesday 15th November and/or all-day workshops on 17th November. If you can’t make it in person to the events, there’ll be webchats running throughout the week with successful exporters and experts.
We’ll also be releasing a free Go Global Guide and app! Sign up now and we look forward to seeing you for a week in November that will most surely help you increase sales and broaden horizons!
Take your pick of exotic activity! Full details and registration on this link.

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Use discount code ‘EN’ on checkout for 50% off! That’s access to the Go Global Main Conference and Workshops – 2 days for just £25. Buy tickets now.

Tuesday, November 15th

Main Conference Programme

9.30 – 10: Registration
10 – 10.10: Welcome and conference open

• Emma Jones, Founder, Enterprise Nation

10.10 – 10.40: Go Global with Alibaba.com

• Linda Kozlowski, head of customer acquisition for Alibaba.com offers trends and tips on international trade

10.40 – 11.10: Global success story

• Richard Moross, founder of MOO.COM tells the story of how MOO went global and helps small businesses do the same

11.10 – 11.30: Coffee break
11.30 – 12.00: Speaking globish, Curry-style

• Declan Curry (presenter of BBC OnTheMoney) presents his thoughts on international trade & progress from his weekly Mandarin language lessons on air!

12.00 – 12.30: I did it my way

• A panel of globally successful small businesses stories, including:
• Kate Castle, Bogin a bag
• Luke Brynley-Jones, Our Social Times
• Gareth Austin-Jones, Cocorose London
• Neal McCullough, Hand Drawn Creative

12.30 – 1.00: Be seen; here, there and everywhere

• A panel exploring how to get press and profile in international markets:
• Lisa Sykes, Features Editor, Country Living
• Chris Turner, Editor, Springwise.com
• Angie Moxham, Founder, Three Monkeys PR
• Sarah Dawes, international social media expert

1.00: Lunch
2.00 – 2.30: Making sales online

• A panel of powerful and International sales platforms, including:
• Matt Stinchcomb, head of Europe , Etsy
• Patrick Munden, head of seller communications, eBay
• Linda Kozlowski, head of customer acquisition, Alibaba.com
• Kjetil Olsen, Vice President, Europe, Elance.com

2.30 – 3.00: Getting the world online

• Wendy Tan, Founder & CEO of Moonfruit tells the story of how her global company provides websites to millions of small businesses to enable overseas trade

3.00 – 3.30: Go Local!

• A panel of experts to advise on how to achieve the local look; from website localisation, international virtual offices & accepting local payments, including:
• Christian Arno, Founder, Lingo24.com
• Luke Smith, Founder, Croud
• Cameron Mclean, VP of merchant services, PayPal

3.30 – 4.00: On the sofa with Ashley Payne, top Alibaba.com seller and founder of Radix Global
4.00 – 4.30: Afternoon tea
4.30 – 5.00: I did it my way

• A panel of globally successful small businesses stories, including:
• David Brown, Ve Interactive
• Sam Bompas, Bompas and Parr
• Tony Curtis, Alago
• Interviewed by Sunday Times and Springboard journalist, Andrew Stone

5.00 – 5.30: Farewell keynote

• Rob Law, Founder & CEO of Trunki tells the story of how his business is trading across borders and creating happy travel experiences for families across the world!

5.40 onwards: Drinks reception
In addition to this main programme, practical demonstrations will be delivered throughout the day by exhibitors.

Thursday, November 17th

Go Global: Workshop Schedule,
O2 Workshop, 229 Tottenham Court Road

Time	Speaker	Topic
9.30 – 10am	Representative from Alibaba.com	Go Global with Alibaba.com– step by step demo on using the site
10.10 – 10.40am	Alison Grieve, Safetray	The story of an invention & how it achieved global success
11.00 – 11.30am	Felicity Tolley	UKTI support for small business
11.40 – 12.10pm	Emily Coltman ACA	International accounting in terms you can understand!
12.20 – 12.50pm	Jen Buchan, O2	Making the most of mobile to start & grow an international business
1 – 1.30pm	Judy Mansfield	The ins and outs of currency exchange
1.30 – 2pm	Lunch break
2 – 2.30pm	John Hayes, iContact	Social Media: The 24/7 Channel for Global Commerce
2.40 – 3.10pm	Beverley Bergin, PayPal	Make and receive payments across borders
3.20 – 3.50pm	Chris Dawson	Selling via Amazon & eBay to all countries!
4.00 – 4.30pm	Michael Jacobsen	The Global Accelerator – how to super-charge your business to international success!
4.40 – 5.10pm	Chris Fieldhouse	Tech Pack for the trading traveller
5.20 – 5.50pm	Matthew Stibbe	How online business, Turbine HQ, went global
6.00 – 6.30pm	Iris Cai	China: doing business and learning the culture
6.40 – 7.10pm	Fay Delavault	Secrets to successful shipping

All Week

Online events

Day	Time and Activity
Monday 14th	Launch of Go Global eBook and App Webchat with representative from Alibaba.com
Tuesday 15th	Webchats with speakers live from the main event
Wednesday 16th	Webchat with David Jones, Ve Interactive and Richard Michie, Global Lingo
Thursday 17th	Webchats with speakers live from workshops
Friday 18th	Webchat with Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, Shed Simove and Gabriela Castro-Fontoura of Sunny Sky Solutions #Twintrade on Twitter connecting businesses with service providers		Unfortunately I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona and its taking place in London so if you're in the area you really should consider attending.

Money for my Folks in the UK that doesn't have to be paid back

Enterprise Nation has a business fund that does not have to be paid back. All you have to do is agree to share what you did with the money. This is not a one shot deal but is available once a month. Enterprise Nation Fund 101


Go to the site and give it your best pitch. Available only to those in the UK. Good luck.

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International Help From the Obama Adminstration.

Interested in going international ? The Obama adminstrations wants to help you export. Millions have been sent to the states to you do just that. Click on your state on the map to see how much your state got and whose in charge of the money.  Ignore the deadline info that was for the states to apply for the grants.


http://1.usa.gov/ne64mz

Whether you have goods or services you need to take advantage of this opportunity to go international. Your competition isn't in the next state but the entire globe. Plan for it and work you plan. I am always open for new business in the international arena. Smile

Don't forget to save the date November 15 from 11:30-1pm. for my international seminar.

Details to follow.

You can find business anywhere if you keep an Open Mind.

I thought you would enjoy this story. I have counseled and represented many traders who got their start this way.


It all started with her being seized by the simple whim to pack her suitcases and head off to whatever European city entered her mind, for a few weeks. It was, after all, mid-summer and she needed to get away for a while. A major monkey-wrench was thrown into her very simple plan, when she was told by every travel agent in the city that she should have booked during the spring, when seats were still available.

She was left with no choice but to change her travel plans in the end. Instead of going to the destination of her choice, she ended up heading to the only one with seats that were available. Being the plucky individual that she was, it did not deter her in the slightest that it happened to be the capital city of a minuscule country that neither she, nor her travel agent, had ever head of before. She threw a pile of warm clothes and skirts, plus a few unmentionables, into her suitcase and headed off into the wild blue yonder.

To put it in a nutshell, she wound up in the middle of a country where nobody, not one soul, could speak her language. This resulted in something of a heart-stopping moment when the customs agent examining her bags suddenly gave her the strangest of looks. He gestured towards her and began jabbering excitedly in his own language. At first she thought that she must have violated a local regulation by wearing them, but through some rudimentary sign language and crudely drawn pictures depicting stick-figures carrying guns being chased by other stick figures in police uniforms, the agent was able to communicate that he was only warning her about local thieves.

As she got out of the airport, it occurred to her that she may have made a dreadful mistake. It was not warm and sunny in the least. In fact, in no time at all a frigid blast that could have blown in directly from the North Pole, had caught her skirts and blown them up over her head, much to the delight of the waiting cab-drivers. Gathering them in one hand to prevent further rude actions by the wind, she dragged her luggage to the nearest cab.

Luck was with her at last. The cab’s driver had been the only one to discretely look away during the wind’s antics. And, though he could not understand a single thing she said, he immediately recognized the name of her hotel when she pulled out her booking confirmation and waved around it in front of his face. After a twenty-plus minute ride that seemed more like a practice run for a Formula One event, she arrived safely, if somewhat shaken, at the hotel.

Undaunted, she arose the next morning and set out for the city-center. What awaited her there was one of those rare, life-changing moments, for everywhere she turned, in every shop window, were the most ornately designed, absolutely exquisite men wedding bands. When she whipped out her pocket calculator and did the math, she discovered that she could easily resell them at a five hundred percent profit margin back home. A new business was born that day, on that street in the middle of nowhere. The local population still does not speak any language other than their own. But, that is not a problem for our heroine, who keeps the source of her supply a closely guarded secret.

She has learned theirs.

The moral of this little story is that when you’re traveling either for business or pleasure abroad, always look for deals on things that could be bought or sold, then imported or exported. Many an import / export business has been started this way.

This may be an obvious tip, but because of the economic situation worldwide, some things are not always available some countries, and there is a growing market for all kinds of things.

Just keep your eyes open, and you could be well on your way to starting a new enterprise idea