Understand Your Options, Determine Your Structure, Expand Your Sales The Doing Business in the USA (#DBUSA) is a fast paced, half day seminar dedicated to helping Canadian business owners expand into the US market. When: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT) Where: Surrey, BC – Sheraton Guildford Hotel Cost: $149 […]
Doing Business in the USA Seminar Understand Your Options, Determine Your Structure, Expand Your Sales Event type: In-class seminar Date: Friday, November 30, 2018 Time: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time Place: Civic Hotel 13475 Central Avenue, Surrey, BC Fee: $75.00 CAD plus GST (per attendee) CLICK HERE TO REGISTER (Registration deadline: November 26, […]
By: Jim Pettinger Many Canadian entrepreneurs (including your writer) have used this strategy to enter the U.S. market from Canada. While this formula can work, pre-planning always makes sense. That’s why this newsletter attempts to provide information about resources and upcoming events to provide help before preventable, time-delaying and costly issues can occur. In particular, […]
Whether it was to catch a cheaper flight from Bellingham to Las Vegas or to shop at an I-5 outlet mall, since 2013 many British Columbians were flocking to the nearest lower-mainland border crossing and travelling to the states in search of a good deal. However, a weakened Loonie curbed many Canadian shoppers who’d been […]
Canadian companies, start-ups and entrepreneurs who attend this ‘fast-paced’ seminar will learn from cross-border experts how to ‘determine an export strategy’ and ‘understand their responsibilities’ to U.S. government agencies like U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration. Professional veteran cross-border immigration and business lawyers, accountants, customs brokers and logistics providers will guide attendees through the steps of exporting […]
So much more than business analysis or software upgrades, optimizing your business means taking a global approach to reviewing the processes required to satisfy your customers’ needs. By definition, to optimize, is to make the best or most effective use of (a situation, opportunity, or resource). “It is not something only for the big companies,” […]
By: Jim Pettinger Have you considered the potential benefits of exporting your company’s products into the United States? If not, you may be neglecting the largest, richest and most responsive market in the world – a market that lies right at British Columbia’s doorstep. Unfortunately, many Canadian small business owners and entrepreneurs are either […]
By: UCanTrade Staff Export Development Canada (EDC)’s Chief Economist, Peter Hall said in a recent EDC press release that the US Economic Growth is ‘spilling over’ into the global economy and combined with US industrial capacity constraints and the ‘Low-Loonie,’ among other variables, the EDC forecasts Canadian exports will grow 8 per cent by 2016. […]
By: Elliott Smith UCanTrade, Inc. President Jim Pettinger will be presenting the Doing Business in the USA Seminar on June 12, 2014 from 1:00 to 4:15 PM at Silver Reef Hotel Casino Spa in Ferndale, WA as part of the Second Annual Cross-Border Expo. The Doing Business in the USA Seminar, which normally costs $200 […]
By: Staff Interested in expanding your Lower Mainland or FraserValley business to the United States? Learn how on Thursday, November 14 at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel in Surrey. UCanTrade, Inc. presents “Doing Business in the USA,” a full day seminar and professional briefing that contains all the information BC entrepreneurs need to get started selling […]