The World is your market: Small businesses gear up for Globalization

Never, in the history of the world, has the entrepreneurial and small businessspirit been more alive.The fight for your life attitude caused by extreme uncertain times along with the explosive growth of the Internet has levelled

the playing field and emancipated the entrepreneurial and small business process. There is no end in sight. Rather, a beginning to realizing the world is your market. This brave new global economy of ours offers unlimited export opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses. International trade increases sales and profits, enhances a company's prestige, creates jobs and offers a valuable way to level seasonal fluctuations. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs and small businesses think that going global, or becoming a “border buster” is too complicated and confusing. It does present an intimidating undertaking, yet in today’s turbulent global market, it’s the small business owners of the world who are busting borders, discovering unlimited potential for growth and profit and changing the shape of the world economy.

Small business and entrepreneurs need help in navigating through these radical times and expanding internationally. They are a huge group that has soared 75 percent in the last 20 years to 23 million. The combined economic value to America is staggering. If U.S. small business were a nation of their own, that nation would have the third largest gross domestic product in the world.