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  • Lessons in global branding
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    Whether you’re a domestic business looking to go international or a ‘born global’ exporter, your approach to establishing your brand overseas should be the same. “There’s no magic wand you can wave, you go through the same process finding your target customers in any market,” says brand strategist Hamish Chadwick, principal of Image Substation. A [...]

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    Managing, Marketing
  • Women in export: Icecraft International
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    “I’m 71 but I feel the same as I did when I was 20,” says Vivienne Lipke, CEO and co-founder of Queensland’s Icecraft International. Icecraft is a 2010 Australian Export Hero that sells ice sculpture moulds in 117 countries around the world. Lipke works a 19-hour day and has only started using an answering machine [...]

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    Growing, Marketing
  • Young exporters’ foldable thongs
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    Business partners Ben Lipschitz and Rick Munitz are a lawyer and an industrial designer brought together by a quest to revolutionise women’s footwear. Focusing on comfort and convenience, the 26-year-old entrepreneurs have invented a pair of thongs that triple-fold into a carry-anywhere pouch. “I had this idea, having seen a few girls walking around in [...]

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    Marketing, Starting
  • Export market research
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    Exporters thinking of entering an overseas market need to do their homework. Everything from product packaging to the way it is distributed should be decided in advance, based on reliable information that has been systematically gathered and analysed through a uniform approach. In other words, market research. Otherwise there is no guarantee that a would-be [...]

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    Growing, Marketing
  • Creating customer value
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    A value proposition is just one way of communicating how a business differs from the competition. When considering a business value proposition, a good place to start is to think about what is in it for the customer, what benefit will be derived from them using the product or service being offered? Often, businesses confuse [...]

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    Marketing, Starting
  • Five steps to export readiness
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    “Take advantage of opportunities but be less opportunistic,” says Anthony Moss, director of export specialists Incite Management Group. He says that for many businesses the move into export is born out of opportunism: answering an unsolicited email or cold call from an overseas buyer. The limits of the Australian market often tempt business owners to [...]

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    Growing, Marketing