Decide On Your Waterfront Getaway This Memorial Day Weekend

©iStock/StockStudios If you’re still deciding which waterfront getaway is right for you this Memorial Day weekend, we’re here to help.  From...

How AI Will Transform Marketing

©iStock/HAKINMHAN Artificial intelligence can automate and streamline many basic marketing functions, but the real opportunity lies in AI...

Claude For Small Businesses

©iStock/Robert Way Small businesses make up nearly half the American economy, but they've never had the resources of bigger companies. A...

Grievances and Drama On the World Stage in Artificial Intelligence

©iStock/pingingz A jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, finding that he brought his lawsuit against the company and Chief Execut...

Today in Global Small Business: A Christmas Carol Can Never Come Too Early

©iStock/RockingStock What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Ferrell, the “Saturday Night...

Keep Calm, Head to Key West

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Keep calm, head to Key West." – Unknown from The Global Small Business Blog https...

Accelerated Global Growth

©iStock/Robert Way Roblox is announcing five new roles to position the company for accelerated global growth. John Ciancutti is joining as ...

Dear U.S.A. Government, Please Return the $160 Billion ASAP

©iStock/thitivong The government must return about $160 billion , plus interest, collected from duties deemed illegal and potentially more i...

A Fast-Melting Antarctic Glacier at the End of the Earth

©iStock/staphy Ten people.  Eight weeks.  Three-thousand feet to pierce a fast-moving Antarctic glacier.   The hole in the ice at the end of...

How to Prepare, Approach, and Sell Your Products to the World's Leading Retailers with Jim Debetta

©2026 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. Up next, 5/13/26 at 11:00 AM CT – free of charge wegginar® with Jim Debetta, P...

Today in Global Small Business: How Starbucks Is Turning Around

©iStock/M. Suhail What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Here’s what most turnaround sto...

Everything Has Beauty

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." –  Confucius from The Global Sm...

Find Your Calm

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Global Expansion Simplified

©iStock/peshkov “Internationalization” can seem an overwhelming concept for SMEs, but the relationship between the two has never been so sig...

There Is No Silver Bullet

©iStock/Nikolay Chekalin President Trump keeps looking for the magic formula that will deliver him victory in Iran.   There is no silver bul...

Risks to the Global Supply Chain: Critical Raw Materials

©iStock/BJP7images Critical raw materials are facing rising export restrictions, increasing risks to the global supply chain. The annual upd...

Today in Global Small Business: First Female Trainer to Win the Kentucky Derby 2026!

©iStock/Thomas Kelley What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: On Saturday, 5/2/26, Golden...

Stick With Love

©2026 Laurel J.Delaney.  All rights reserved. " I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." – MLK Note...

The U.A.E. Pulls Out of OPEC

©iStock/Dmitrili Pichugin The United Arab Emirates’ (UAEs') decision to withdraw from OPEC marked a new alignment in the Middle East, w...

She Builds: Stories of Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs

©iStock/subkontr Three initiatives within McGill Desautels, the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics and Equity (LCBEE), the Desaute...

Drawing the Line On Price Increases

©iStock/gokhanilgaz Yesterday, I debated on whether to buy a box of De Cecco 16-oz. premium, authentic Italian linguine for $3.79!...

If Convicted, Cole Allen Faces the Prospect of Life In Prison For Attempt to Assassinate the USA President

©iStock/Nandani Bridglal Secret Service agents responded to a shooting at the annual White House Correspondents' Association D...

Today in Global Small Business: You Don't Have to Be Rich to Enjoy An Airport Shower Worldwide

©iStock/Tanut Nitkumhan What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Affordable arr...

Geese Always Support Each Other

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always a...

Times Are Changing: TikTok Drives American Expats to Southeast Asia

©iStock/monticelllo Chad Dunn used to spend his days on the floor of a Hyundai plant in Savannah, Ga., watching the clock, feeling...

Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Global Business Leader

©iStock/PranithanChorruangsak Booth’s Advanced Management Program helped Deepa Sethi, business development lead at Elevo Global, b...

Brilliant Global Marketing Move For the Day

©iStock/tang90246 Last week, more than 1,000 people received PR packages from Lancôme. Many were content creators who had received...

What You Should Know About Filing for IEEPA Refunds Using CAPE

wildpixel Law firm Foley & Lardner has received numerous requests for guidance on Phase 1 of the CAPE system. CAPE is the plat...

Today in Global Small Business: The Human Side of AI Adoption

©iStock/Dragos Condrea What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The human side ...

The Day the Lord Created Hope

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring....

An Oldie But Goodie: 20 tips to Grow a Global Business by Laurel Delaney

©iStock/Kriangsak Koopattanakij Six years old and still pretty relevant.  It's an article I [Laurel Delaney] wrote for GoDaddy...

Instacart to Acquire Retail Tech Platform to Fuel International Expansion

©iStock/JHVEPhoto The deal for Instacart to acquire Instaleap will give Instacart a grocery-specific fulfillment solutions servic...

Set Boundaries to Stay Healthy

©iStock/paladin13 As I wrote over at the Exporting Guide , we set boundaries when we decide on and communicate our personal and pr...

How Section 122 Tariffs Are Being Challenged

©iStock/wildpixel At least two separate cases have now been filed at the Court of International Trade seeking to stop the Trump ad...

Today in Global Small Business: Artemis II Crew Reunites with Families

©iStock/James Wagner What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The four astronau...

Owe To My Angel Mother

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." – Abraham Linco...

6 Leaders On What Is Actually Scaling When It Comes to AI

©iStock/Anucha Tiemsom Artificial intelligence is finally crossing a threshold. Companies have long talked about AI as a transform...

Eat An Orange. Be Happy.

©iStock/Tim UR Eating an orange a day may lower a person’s depression risk by 20 percent, according to a study led by Raaj Mehta, ...

Superintelligent A.I. Is Arriving Faster Than Anticipated

©iStock/VPanteon You heard it here second, after Thomas L. Friedman, Opinion Column, The New York Times (4/7/26): "Holy cow! ...

Meet Divya Behl and Register For Her wegginar® 4/8/26

©2026 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. How can a company be more than a business?  How can a true company...

Today in Global Small Business: Use AI to Expand Your Imagination and Pursue a Meaningful Life

©iStock/VR_Studio What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: We should teach youn...

The Gift of Easter

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "The great gift of Easter is hope ." – Basil C. Hume  from The Global S...

Contempt Is the Trumpian Way. But It's Not the American Way

©iStock/asiandelight Frank Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years.  He wr...

Artemis II Launched From the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 4/1/26 (Video)

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The Iran War: Serious Harm to the Global Economy

©iStock/Makhbubakhon Ismatova Opinion Columnist for The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman writes:  This [Iran war] is imposing ser...

"Feel the Heat" to View the Artemis II Moon Launch

©iStock/3DSculptor The first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years is coming up – target date is April 1, 2026.  T...

Today in Global Small Business: Unlocking the Growth Equation for SMEs in Africa's Fragile Markets

©iStock/Hibrida13 What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Small- and medium-si...

Hands Off Chicago and 'No Kings' Protest 3/28/26

©2026 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. Organizers expect the 'No Kings' protests to draw millions of Americans in...

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Linguistic Inclusivity

©iStock/Alvin Man The lack of French in Air Canada's chief executive Michael Rousseau’s speech about the deadly collision at L...

Meet the Recipient of the 2026 Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership®: Wendy Shen

©2026 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. And the recipient of the 2026 Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplar...

Can Someone With Zero Coding Experience Use Claude Code to Build Stuff?

©iStock/Robert Way This is a question that was asked on reddit:  Can someone with zero coding experience actually use Claude Code ...