Women First, Prosperity For All

©iStock/DMEPhotography The eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit began in Hyderabad, India, focusing on the theme of “Wome...

Think Like a Disruptor

©iStock/ipopba Are you overlooking fledgling competitors until they are no longer fledgling and ignoring small market trends until...

Small Business, Global Impact

©iStock/Maestria_diz To discuss issues and find solutions for SMEs, The World Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) ...

Today in Global Small Business: Small Businesses Are Stealing Away Business from Publicly Traded Retailers

©iStock/RomoloTavani What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The Canadian gov...

I Cannot Live Without Books

©2017 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not ...

A Movement to Eradicate Extreme Poverty

©iStock/monstArrr_ In September, Global Citizens , a social action platform dedicated to solving the world's biggest problems,...

The Global Small Business Blog Is Grateful for Your Readership

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Female Air Force Veteran and Spouse Launch Successful E-Commerce Business

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Laurel Delaney: 7 Tips to Get Paid on International Deals

©iStock/Wara1982 Collecting money from your overseas customers doesn’t have to be painful. The first rule of thumb: Never sell on ...

Today in Global Small Business: The Logic of Being Global

©iStock/spainter_vfx What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The retreat of t...

The Sun Makes Ice Melt

©2017 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness ca...

Hiring Abroad Doesn't Come at the Expense of U.S. Workers

©iStock/shironosov U.S. President Trump assumes that when U.S. multinationals expand abroad, it necessarily reduces the number of ...

Future of Ecommerce: Have the Expert's Predictions Come True for 2017?

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Social Businesses Can Cure Poverty

©iStock/PPrat Nobel winner Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel for his work in microfinance , explains how so-called social business...

The Seller Summit

©iStock/mnbb What is the Seller Summit?  It's tricky.  Amazon recently ran an event, referred to as a Seller Summit, attended ...

Today in Global Small Business: Ten Places to Look for Import and Export Help

©iStock/thitivong What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: What has moved me l...

La Creperie: Best-Kept French Secret in Chicago

  One of my favorite best-kept French secrets:   La Creperie , the oldest Creperie in the U.S.  I started dining there in 1977.  Still l...

SMEs Power American Commerce

©iStock/monsitj Small and medium-sized businesses power American commerce, comprising 99 percent of firms in the country.  Further...

Firms That Export, Are More Productive than Those That Don't

©iStock/AnjoKoanFotografie The Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Limited (UWEAL) is joining the rest of the world to celebra...

90 Percent of Businesses in Bahrain Are SMEs

©iStock/eugenesergeev According to a 2017 international entrepreneurship analysis, the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institu...

New Gen Startup Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa

©iStock/ViewApart Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson, will open the 10th anniversary celebration of Global Entrepreneurship...

Today in Global Small Business: PayPal Marketplaces Goes Global

©iStock/pressureUA What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: How do you create ...

I Say a Little Prayer

©2017 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. A song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for Dionne Warwick , "I Say a L...

How to Become a Savvy Global Marketer

©iStock/royyimzy Below is an article I [Laurel Delaney] wrote on ways to harness the power of affordable social media tools and ta...

Boosting International Trade for Small Businesses

©iStock/monsitj The World Trade Organization (WTO) says that helping small enterprises enter global markets "will go a long w...

Global Expansion is Gathering Speed

©iStock/Kicha011 Some of the world’s best known companies from Amazon.com Inc. to Volkswagen AG are ramping up spending on new pla...