How to Win Large International Clients with Justin Hildage
Cynthia Dearin speaks to Justin Hildage, financial markets expert and founder of Thames Capital. Having grown up in a military family, Justin reflects on his recent experience doing a 48-hour military-style resilience course, and the parallels it has to the experience of starting a business.
The Importance of Cross-cultural Awareness with Luca Postiglione
Luca Postiglione grew up in Florence, Italy, and has spent time living and working around the globe, in the US, UK, Europe and now Australia. He has a passion for the luxury sector, and ran his own luxury goods company for several years, selling artisan-made furniture, jewellery and home decor to high net worth individuals around the world.
Commercial Intelligence: Making Sure Your International Business Fairytale Has a Happy Ending
If you’re in the field of international business, you’ve heard it a thousand times: “Commercial intelligence is vital to the success of an international business venture”. If you’ve been around the traps for long enough, you’ll know how true that is. For those of you wondering what’s so special about commercial intelligence, let me start […]
Why Aussie Engineering Firms Should Look Abroad
With Australia’s mining boom well and truly over and infrastructure spending at a low ebb in most Australian states, Australian engineering firms looking to the future are right to wonder where new work will come from. The good news is that because the vast majority of the world’s building and infrastructure market lies beyond our […]
Does Your International Marketing Strategy Suck? Here’s Why…
This week at the International Business Accelerator, we talked about international marketing and why so many companies get it wrong. Here are four of the mistakes that I see people making all time when it come to international marketing. 1. They fall into the #1 trap of international marketing The number one trap of international […]