| Mark Burgess - ETS - A life on the ocean waves |
Actually, it was precisely because of the minefields of legislation and bureaucracy that I got into this whole area of Export Training Services some 20 years ago now. I had had to fight my own way through the nightmares of logistics and form-filling that went along with actually making a sale to a new overseas customer, and came to passionately believe that life should be easier than this! (I'm even on board a ship when this photo was taken – if memory serves – so I really do live and breathe this stuff.)
There is no let up though, for example where we have just had to update and launch the Incoterms 2010 course, but it is just one example, amongst many, where life can really be made so much easier once "the rules" are clearly explained, and you can then grasp what ticking a few of their boxes actually means.
Some of it is Health & Safety gone even more mad than before, of course, but some of it really does matter, in safeguarding against fraud, crime, war, ensuring your deliveries do actually get where they're supposed to be, on time, or even just the messy business of getting paid – at the end of that monster chain!
We're here to help sales people and team leaders in the UK get our international export – and import – trade flowing again though. So if you have any questions or would like us to explore your particular needs in a bit more depth, fire away…
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SME's need finance help to export too...
Saw this Mark...
http://www.smallbusiness.co.uk/blogs/ben-lobel/1633453/elusive-finance-could-be-blow-for-export-trade.thtml
...and thought of you.
Posted by Neil Warren on
Business wanting to export needs to minimize risk
To minimize risk businesses need to clearly understand the risks they are exposing their company when they start to export. They need to gather as much information about the country, the competitors, customers, culture, ethics etc to firstly make an informed decision whether its the right strategy and secondly if they decided to proceed they know exactly want they need to do be successful.
Posted by Andy Hamer on
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