21/12/2015
Have Content, Will Travel: Marketing to Today’s Global Customers
If you’re expanding your business into foreign markets, your approach to content marketing can be the difference between success and failure.
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18/12/2015
The TPP: What does it mean for Canadian international trade professionals?
For Canada, the agreement will likely result in an increase in both imports and exports, including products such as machinery, canola, beef, pork, minerals and seafood. Canadian companies will gain a competitive advantage over exporters from non-TPP countries who must still face the existing tariffs, while the same will be true for organizations importing goods to Canada.
17/12/2015
We have to do better at maximizing international trade opportunities for new Canadians
How can we complain that we don’t have enough people with the import/export skills to help our economy, while bringing in qualified immigrants and then not opening up available international trade opportunities to them?
16/12/2015
Dr. Michele Vincenti, CITP|FIBP – President and CEO
As the President and CEO of Alvana Business Consulting Inc., Michele Vincenti, CITP|FIBP is able to bring over 30 years of experience to help businesses at the C-level, particularly in financial matters. He has also used his considerable import export expertise to teach at a variety of post-secondary institutions in Canada and abroad.
15/12/2015
The one thing that will guarantee you get paid in international business deals
Conducting proper due diligence is always a good first layer of protection against some of those risks, but is often not enough on its own to guarantee you’ll get paid in international business deals. International businesses need to focus on mitigating some of the more prevalent risks inherent in conducting business abroad.
14/12/2015
Environmental groups are unhappy about TPP’s failure to address climate change
As environmental groups and analysts make headway with reading through and analyzing the agreement, some groups have come out resolutely against the agreement, arguing that tying these economies together more tightly will make it harder to pass more stringent environmental relations in the future and expressing concern about the TPP’s failure to address climate change.
11/12/2015
The 5 biggest supply chain challenges of the growing ecommerce environment
Streamlining the combination of two omni-channel supply chains on this scale is not without its major challenges. So, what are the biggest supply chain challenges facing e-commerce retailers in today’s fast-paced business environment?
10/12/2015
Two very different approaches successful exporters use to expand internationally
In a recent conversation with a Canadian company wishing to expand internationally, I learned some of the questions that potential exporters face and some of the very different strategies used by successful exporters.
09/12/2015
Trish Tully, CITP|FIBP – VP Marketing and Sales, Survival Systems Limited
Trish Tully, CITP|FIBP, BComm, MBA, is the VP Marketing and Sales at Survival Systems Limited, the world’s leading provider of training simulator solutions for emergency and survival situations.
08/12/2015
How the right training and mentors have guided my career to greater heights
My interest in international business started to develop while I was a student at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. I enjoyed the undergraduate global business and finance courses I took, which heavily focused on globalization and the impact it was having on the world economy.