Do you want to grow your export business, and are looking for information to help you to increase your business and profitability?
Then this site is for you.

A question:
Do you sell internationally,
or are you an international business?™

The secret to a successful export business is to be an export business first and foremost, not a domestic business that sells internationally: all elements of your company, from strategy development through to packing and shipping will be aligned to sell internationally. It means that you are proactively building your business, not reacting to enquiries from overseas.

Studies have shown that the most successful and effective export businesses are also the most profitable in their home markets.

Operating as an international business requires a strategic shift in your company. These pages give a guide to achieving successful international business.

Our aim is to continually develop this site, and address the key issues faced by an exporter. For example, how do you work with UK VAT when selling to foreign markets in a foreign currency - look at the resource centre to find information on this and many other aspects of export business development.

This site is written by experienced exporters who currently run successful international businesses - it is not a host of information from a group of people who were trading internationally 15 years ago. It addresses the challenges we all face each day in growing our export business, and includes information that we use in our own business every day.

Our intention is to keep this as a free resource - in order to do this, we do sell books and offer a limited amount of advertising space.

The books we offer have been selected for the quality and usefulness to exporters; we are not going to sell something that we would not find useful ourselves. Advertisers are also vetted to ensure that their products or services are applicable. Please visit the bookshop and our advertisers to ensure we can keep growing the resource centre, and maintain this free resource.

If you have any questions, or would like to submit articles or information for inclusion on this website, please use the contact us page. We are looking forward to hearing from you.