Small Business Importing And Exporting

Written by on September 3, 2008
Categories: Business Growth, Business People, Business Sales, Business Startup, Success Thinking

Posted by: Paul Stanford

 

 

Importing and exporting

 

 

In today’s business environment more and more small businesses are looking to export their products and services as well as importing goods and services typically to reach new markets and remain competitive. Perhaps you sell a product that is highly sensitive to the weather – so have you ever thought of selling it somewhere else in the world that might provide more favourable weather conditions in which to sell your product? Or perhaps you need to expand your operations and need to buy in cheaper products and/or labour from abroad.

 

 

Well if you are then this will present itself with many new challenges and opportunities for you. I am often asked by clients how to export to X or Y country or how to go about finding cheap labour abroad. Whilst I can advise on these points face to face it is quite another thing to attempt to write about them in this blog as the responses tend to be very varied and the answers quite dependent upon whatever country and/or market sector you are operating in. So how about free seminar that gives you a general introduction and overview to Importing and Exporting? Businesses based in the South East may be interested in attending a free seminar that UKTI is running on 1st October 2008 in Oxford, see http://www.uktisoutheast.com/EventDisplay.aspx?ID=1044 for further details.

 

Paul Stanford is a Director of 4Momentum http://www.4momentum.co.uk. 4Momentum provides business advisory services to small businesses, charities and social enterprises primarily in Sussex. Services include advice on starting a business, growing and transforming a business and selling a business. Clients typically contract 4Momentum for short periods of an hour to long term consultancy over many months for advice on subjects such as mentoring, business planning, sales and marketing advice, bidding for contracts, raising finance and general business advice. Paul is approved by the UK Government to deliver business advice on their behalf through Business Link and is a member of the Institute of Business Consultants. Visit his blog at http://www.paulstanford.co.uk/blog

Copyright 2008 Paul Stanford

 

 

 

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