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NAWBO Partnerships: Helping Women Business Owners Go Global


For years, NAWBO has invited corporations to form strategic alliances that will support our members in building brand identity, provide resources to expand business ventures and help them take their businesses global as well as helping them build their client base. Here are some ways that our partners help NAWBO take their businesses global and even make the process easy.

UPS:

  • UPS ensures orders arrive at the desired destination on time, anywhere in the world.
  • UPS delivers more packages to more destinations worldwide than any other carrier.
  • Packages to any destination in the world are handled with the utmost care and precision and are ensured prompt delivery.
  • UPS World Ease® helps you to ship packages to multiple recipients within a country or the European Union as one shipment that clears customs as a single transaction. This is great for retail businesses or other consumer products to ensure their products arrive at their destination as soon as possible.
  • UPS helps small businesses by working with their budget to meet their financial needs.

American Express OPEN:

  • With tools such as “Connectodex®,” American Express can generate new leads by intelligently matching businesses with similar needs and interests.
  • The “Idea Hub” features exclusive articles, videos, discussion boards and event listings that keep businesses informed and inspired to move forward with their goals.
  • OPEN can earn you double membership awards on every flight booking.
  • OPEN Forum allows you to connect with other small businesses and share information and advice on how to take your business global.
  • OPEN Forum also helps you market your business to other small businesses around the world.

Principal Financial:

  • Principal Financial is a great resource for financing your global venture.
  • Principal supplies global asset management and simultaneously delivers great investment performance and client service opportunities.
  • Their global reach provides an informational advantage in researching and managing investment portfolios.
  • Principal’s investment capabilities encompass an extensive range of equity, fixed income and real estate investments as well as specialized overlay and advisory services.

Inc.Magazine:

  • Inc. delivers advice, tools, and services to help business owners and CEOs start, run and grow their businesses more successfully.
  • The “Growth Strategies” section allows small business owners to access articles concerning financial expansion and globalization.
  • The “Franchising” section is also a great tool for business owners who are looking to expand their brand nationally or worldwide.

On top of our NAWBO partners, there are many other resources for taking your business global. Here are some great organizations and services who specialize in business globalization and how to make the transition stress-free, informational and successful.  


Global Business Network (GBN):

  • GBN enables clients to address their most critical challenges and help them gain the insight, confidence and capabilities they need to shape their business for the future.
  • GBN helps identify the most important uncertainties in business expansion to create multiple scenarios of how the world and the industry might unfold or progress.
  • They work in close partnership with the clients and operate with the objective of co-designing a plan to meet the client’s needs and then sharing relevant design and process skills.

Business Week:

  • Business Week Magazine offers a “Small Business” section with articles and resources concerning expanding your business, what it takes to become a global brand and advice from other global business owners.
  • The “Smart Answers” section allows entrepreneurs to ask the experts about taking their small business global, how to access capital to expand your business and much more.
  • Entrepreneurs Journal is a great tool for new business owners who want to share or learn about the ins and outs of building a business from the ground up.

The Global Business Review:

  • This publication offers a wide variety of articles and studies on how to expand your business and maintain its success.
  • Business owners can access any article in PDF format and save ones that they find interesting or relevant.
  • The articles are designed to keep entrepreneurs “in-the-know” about the global market and the advantages and disadvantages of global expansion.