Small Business

©iStock/Fallbrook What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: What TPP means for small businesses . Meet the winners of Schwab's social entrepreneur awards in 2015 . Hear what an expert has to say about small business customs compliance and supply chain regulations . What to know before your website goes global. How one small business promoted Small Business Saturday [11/28/15]. Singapore SMEs get help from Google to go global . How U.S. exporters get a leg up from TPP.

The spirit of Latin America lands in the heart of Chicago with Latinicity!  What is there not to love about food court Latinicity located at Block 37 (108 N. State)?   See for yourself .   Photos courtesy:  © Laurel J. Delaney .  All rights reserved.

©iStock/Ylivdesign Jack Ma , founder of Alibaba Group wants to reboot global trade talks. “WTO 2.0,” he said in a speech at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila last week. “We should be using WTO to support small guys.” It’s the big buys that currently control the global trading system. They built it, as they alone had the resources to spread out around the globe." He goes on to say that trade is a freedom, trade is human right and trade should not be used as a tool against other nations. Mighty powerful words.  Besides Alibaba, who else benefits from small-business commerce?  Are we on the verge of a new trade agenda -- beyond Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ? Read more:   Why the future of global trade deals could be small business

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©iStock/Rawpixel Ltd TPP stands for Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a trade agreement with 11 other countries -- and there's plenty out there on the Internet about it.  You can start with my article " Trade Agreements are Not Just about Lower Tariffs " and then move on to C. Fred Bergsten's " Op-ed:  The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Japan " (the Peterson Institute for International Economics) and take a look at a more controversial opinion piece featured recently in The New York Times " Pacific Trade and Worker Rights ." Coming soon:   Watch for an interview with Karen Kerrigan , President and CEO, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, on the good, the great and the exceptional about TPP.

©iStock/HasseChr What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: A forecast on the global outlook for 2016 . Have a listen and a look at the world's first 24-hour small business channel . Individuals and companies worldwide celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week . Going global means translating your small business brand . Ironman [ the store ] opts for Borderfree shipping services  to go global. How to create deeper, more meaningful experiences for your online customers .