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Gaining Your Share of $190 Billion

No matter what the wind from the White House, US exports each month from December 2016 to February 2017 were around $190 billion1. Yes, that’s Billion. World trade is not going to stop. The vast majority of US companies depend on it for products, components, services or income. Some 14 million US jobs exist due… Continue reading

Websites and Globalizing: Critical Facts

If your website has not been localized in other languages — or if you localized it using Google Translate — here is what you are missing: According to Common Sense Advisory, 72.4% of global consumers prefer to use their native language when shopping online. 85% of all consumers will not purchase if information is not… Continue reading

Why Fear Shouldn’t Stop You

Fear. This is probably the main emotion preventing people from targeting ethnic US or overseas markets. In essence, if you can’t read or write a language, how will you know whether your translated brochures, manuals, websites or videos are correct? And if you are not certain, many people prefer to do nothing. But doing nothing… Continue reading