by billdecker | May 31, 2012 | International Business
• Are you being educated about the process involved? Importing products across borders can present many difficulties, including quality control of products ordered, timing of deliveries, insurance, product specifications and claims. When importers tell you to simply...
by billdecker | May 24, 2012 | International Business
Here are 3 more mistakes made in hiring foreign nationals (4) Task them as you would Americans. Today’s management styles are about tasking with autonomy, getting “out of the box” and saying things like: “Here’s the job, you are the team,...
by billdecker | May 22, 2012 | International Business
When doing international business, don’t make these errors when you choose who’s going to work for you in another country. (1) Assume that a foreign national can do anything and everything regarding their country. Too many times, we’ve seen Chinese...
by billdecker | May 14, 2012 | International Business
How many times do we hear that in gloabl marketing our international business partners are unethical? “Unethical” is a term that should never be used in international business. Ethics are a suit of clothes, and your ethics don’t equal my ethics,...
by billdecker | May 9, 2012 | International Business
There are several advantages to using an intermediary to import products from overseas: They tend to know what they’re doing. In international business this is a huge help They understand the exporting country’s language, culture and business practices....
