Grab a Passport, grow your business
There’s a lot of talk around at the moment that the best (and sometimes only) way to grow your business is by exporting. But the problem with this is that for a lot of entrepreneurs and SMEs that they simply …
New Exporters
GREAT start for Export Week
ExploreExport successfully launched in the North East yesterday - with 75 Commercial Officers from around the globe joining together to help start Export Week. It’s a fantastic buzz to get that number of people all focused on helping business to …
Don't wait - get on the dance floor
It struck me recently at a party, that as the music plays a pattern emerges. The occasional party tune is heard and a throng will get up and dance, yet when the song is over a silent accord is reached …
My ten year forecast: export far and wide, or fail
I’ve always been entertained by what I know as Fiedler’s Rules of Forecasting. They’ve been attributed to a range of people from Winston Churchill to Cecil B DeMille and I’m sure we’ll never know who actually came up with them. …
Open to Export - Highlights of 2012
2012 has been a challenging, exciting, sometimes frustrating, but very good year for us in the Open to Export team. It's fair to say for the UKTI members of our team, there have been some major changes to our roles …
Open to Export - how it works for me
A guest blog by screen and digital specialist Gina Fegan What are the three most useful aspects of Open to Export? - Tips, advice and pointers to further information - Contacts - both in territory and here in the UK - Being able to …
Serious, but with no export experience? Let's talk
A year ago, Lord Green, Minister for Trade and Investment, challenged British business to go for growth through international trade. Quite simply, companies that export are more productive, grow faster and perform better than companies that don’t and the job …
The power of ‘gut feel’ in international business
I recently joined an interesting presentation by Prof Gerard Hodgkinson at Leeds University Business School, who suggested there is a growing body of evidence that gut feelings are a better guide to making decisions than simple rational analysis. As a …
Going for growth - what's best for baby?
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Dan Rutstein, Posted on:
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Export, Germany, Investing in the UK, New Exporters
With my wife due to give birth to our first child this week, my mind has turned to the future. What sort of world will our son grow up in? Like any ambitious father, I want Daniel Jr to do …
The North East Export Challenge for a new Delivery Team
Minister for Trade and Investment Lord Stephen Green visited the North East this week to help me launch the Export Challenge for the region. Broadly the Chancellors target of doubling exports by 2020 translates into some specifics for the North …