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50 Ways To Go Global
2/15/2007
by Laurel Delaney

How do you go global? Let me count the ways. Here are fifty that will help get you started.

1. The Federation of International Trade Associations
(FITA)
http://www.fita.org/index.html

2. globalEDGE
http://globaledge.msu.edu/

3. GlobeTrade.com
http://www.globetrade.com

4. International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www.ita.doc.gov/index.html

5. Kompass
http://www.kompass.com

6. MyExports
http://www.myexports.com/

7. U.S. Small Business Administration
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/index.html

8. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/

9. PIERS
http://www.piers.com

10. Stat-USA / Internet
http://www.stat-usa.gov/

11. The U.S. Commercial Service / BuyUSA
http://www.buyusa.gov/home/

12. The U.S. Government Export Portal
http://www.export.gov/

13. Laurel Delaney Company
http://www.laureldelaney.com

14. Global Trade Atlas
http://gtis.com/

15. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Eleven Pitfalls to Avoid in Going Global
http://www.eventuring.org/eShip/appmanager/eVenturing/eVenturingDesktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=eShip_articleDetail&_nfls=false&id=Entrepreneurship/Resource/Resource_352.htm&_fromSearch=true&_nfls=false
16. Borderbuster
http://borderbuster.blogspot.com

17. Women Entrepreneurs, Inc.: Build a Website to Go Global
http://www.we-inc.org/delaney20060615.html

18. The World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/

19. MarketingProfs Daily Fix
http://www.mpdailyfix.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/alorentz/mt32/plugins/Profiler/mt-profiler.cgi?author_id=25&tmpl=61

20. Entrepreneur Magazine: Global Village archives
http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneurmagazine/globalvillage/archive173226.html

21. LeaderValues
http://www.leader-values.com/Content/default2.asp?ContentCatID=12

22. UPS
http://www.ups.com

23. National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, Inc.
http://www.ncbfaa.org/

24. IOMA Managing Imports and Exports
http://www.ioma.com/issues/MEI/

25. Yale University Library: Emerging Markets Subject Guide
http://www.library.yale.edu/socsci/emerge/

26. The International Chamber of Commerce
http://www.iccwbo.org/

27. ICC Business Bookstore USA
http://www.iccbooksusa.com/

28. United States Council for International Business
http://www.uscib.org/

29. American Association of Exporters and Importers
http://www.aaei.org/

30. World Trade Centers Association
http://world.wtca.org/portal/site/wtcaonline

31. National Council on International Trade Development
http://www.ncitd.org/

32. UPS Global Advisor
http://www.ups.com/globaladvisor

33. National Association of Exporting Companies
http://nexco.org/

34. Small Business Edge: A Checklist for Preparing Your Package To Go Global
http://www.smallbusinessedge.com/absolutenm/templates/Index.asp?articleid=75&zoneid=25§ion=sidebar

35. Borderbuster on Squidoo
http://www.squidoo.com/borderbuster

36. The International Trade Association of Greater Chicago
http://www.itagc.org/memberbenefits.asp

37. Thunderbird School of Global Management
http://www.thunderbird.edu/

38. Harvard Business School: Global Initiative
http://www.hbs.edu/global/

39. Harvard Business Online: Global
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/search/searchResults.jhtml;jsessionid=24TINGFHL2ZV2AKRGWDR5VQBKE0YIISW?Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntt=global&x=0&y=0&N=0&Ntk=main_search

40. E-Commerce News: How To Take Your Business Global
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/6MT0i8s56MI70a/How-to-Take-Your-Small-Business-Global.xhtml

41. StartupNation: Taking Your Startup to a Foreign Market
http://www.startupnation.com/pages/articles/startup-foreign-market.asp

42. Business Strategies Magazine: Go Global or Die
http://www.bizstrat.com/Article260.aspx

43. Priority Magazine: Going Global
http://www.prioritymagazine.com/sept06/goingglobal0906.html

44. The Global Small Business Blog: 20 Books To Get You Global in 2007
http://borderbuster.blogspot.com/2006/12/20-books-to-get-you-global-in-2007.html

45. ChangeThis: Global Guru, Shaking Things Up, Making Things Happen
http://www.changethis.com/sp-6.globalguru

46. Global E-Newsletter: Borderbuster
http://www.globetrade.com/generic21.html


47. The World Bank Group: Doing Business
http://www.doingbusiness.org/

48. U.S. Census Bureau: Foreign Trade Statistics
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/

49. Beyster Institute
http://beysterinstitute.ucsd.edu/other_resources/leading_companies/feb07/lc0207growglobal.html

50. Love Goes global
http://borderbuster.blogspot.com/2007/01/love-goes-global.html


Copyright ©2007 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. 

 About the Author:
Global business expert Laurel Delaney is the founder of GlobeTrade.com and LaurelDelaney.com. She is also the creator of "Borderbuster," (
www.globetrade.com/generic21.html) an e-newsletter and The Global Small Business Blog (http://borderbuster.blogspot.com), which are both highly regarded for coverage on global small business. She can be reached at ldelaney@globetrade.com.


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