TRAINING IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE oN LINE WHEN YOU WANT IT AND WHERE YOU WANT IT!

• Do you know the financing tools available that can facilitate your imports and exports?
• Would you care to improve your skills in international negotiations?
• Would you complete your list of trustworthy and competent people to help you in your efforts to go international?
• Do you know how to obtain complete and competitive agreements with your specialist in international transport (forwarding)?
• Can you make the most of your agreements with your bank?
• Are you getting the maximum conditions during your negotiations with your overseas buyer?
• You lack of availability to attend training?
• You wish to be formed directly on your premises?
• You prefer a short but interactive training?

• Do you know how to maximize your freight and logistic?
• Do you know the new custom's regulations on export and import?
• How do INCOTERM affect your negociation?
• Do you master your rights and obligations during your expeditions?
• Can we help you properly to save money?

Next one is April 30th from 18h00 to 21h00 PM (EST,Canada) Global Supply Chain Management
If you are contemplating a move into the global arena, you will benefit from the information offered in the FITT Going Global series of introductory workshops. FITT Going Global workshops are 3-hour live online courses designed to help individuals and organizations make crucial exporting and/or importing decisions, avoid common pitfalls, and increase their understanding of international trade and foreign markets. You’ll learn to identify market opportunities, leverage your resources to secure financing, negotiate partnerships with foreign distributors, and more. FITT Going Global workshops have proven beneficial for export service providers, educational institutions, industry associations, and private companies. Going Global workshops are delivered online by ITTC.

If you're not sure how to measure the impact of your social media efforts, don't worry; you're not alone. In a recent iContact survey, marketers said calculating ROI is one of their top social media challenges.

Trade Surplus narrows to $2.1 billion
Canadian exports declined by 2.3% in January, a somewhat soft beginning to 2012 after a torrid ending to last year. In fact, December exports were revised upwards from 4.5% growth to 5.6%, and this came on top of a solid 3.7% rise in November, so it was to be expected that there would be some give back in January as the monthly export numbers can be volatile.

For the past three weeks we have been running a series in the Security Weekly that focuses on some of the fundamentals of terrorism. First, we noted that terrorism is a tactic not exclusive to any one group and that the tactic would not end even if the jihadist threat were to disappear. We then discussed how actors planning terrorist attacks have to follow a planning process and noted that there are times during that process when such plots are vulnerable to detection.

Many Canadian companies looking for funding see Silicon Valley as the holy grail of venture capital. But there is more to the Valley than meets the eye. Here are five venture capital myths worth busting, according to the Trade Commissioner Service in San Francisco/Silicon Valley.

To build a successful business, you have to come up with products and services that stand out from the competition. But to create those unique offerings, you need to know who your competitors are and what they are bringing to the market. Small and medium-sized companies often get too focused on their own business and fail to pay enough attention to what they can learn from the competition, says Normand Coulombe, a Senior Consulting Partner at BDC. “You can’t drive with your eyes closed”, says Coulombe, who has helped hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses. “You have to be aware of what’s going on in the market. You have to know what your competitors are doing.”

A common misconception about websites is that once you have a professional-looking design, you should focus on attracting more visitors. While there’s no denying a site needs traffic, what’s the point if visitors never become customers? You don’t need more visitors. You need more visitors who “convert” into customers. The problem is that many businesses don’t track online conversions. This can be a costly oversight.

As International trade experts, we organize hundreds of matchmaking meetings every year between Canadian companies and foreign buyers and we have seen what makes these pitches work. Learn more about these best practices with document and video.