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Of our annual revenue of nearly $58bn for the year to March 2011, did you know that more than $12bn is from service exports?
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Daniel Taylor explains how you can get Australian business opportunities in your inbox every morning. Find out more
While many of the entrepreneurs at the United States Beachheads Forum were balancing attending events with getting around San Francisco and the Valley doing deals, a few had lunch with new Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman. Find out more
Driven by dreams of being the next Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page, Kiwi technology exporters can get obsessed with chasing the ‘new new thing’ that everyone wants. A valid strategy for Kiwi exporters is actually to do the opposite. Find out more
To be successful in lighting on the international stage, you have to be quick on your feet. Even if other companies follow you on to the market with comparable products, it’s still a good position to be always known as the first on the scene. Find out more
A few years ago, I enrolled for windsurfing lessons in Mission Bay in Auckland and our instructor gave us a guidebook to read before even stepping on the board. It covered the basics and the principle of Velocity Made Good. Find out more
When Compac Sorting Equipment scored its latest success, a US$15 million deal to develop a sorting and packing line for one of the world’s largest citrus companies, it was a matter of “seeing is believing”. Find out more
Marketing is often seen as a creative pursuit, all about dreaming up left-field ideas to export more of your product. This is especially so in our innovation-based industries. Find out more
Hell Pizza has made it to Korea. Any time a New Zealand business opens in Seoul is a special occasion. Korea is our fifth largest export market, worth just under $1.6B in goods, with services estimated at another $0.5B. Find out more
As I watch the world ride the storm of the global economic crisis, I can see the real opportunity that the Mexican market offers New Zealand. Find out more
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