The Grow Big Initiative

The Grow Big Initiative (GBI) brings together industry experts, business leaders and government officials to empower manufacturers, brands and retailers to sell more online across new channels and geographies.

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TikTok Shop

This is a fast-paced workshop for those who already have active TikTok accounts but are either new to TikTok Shop or ready to exponentially grow their TikTok Shop sales.

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Why TikTok

Learn why TikTok is the perfect solution to turn Creator Engagement into more sales.

Why and how to work with a TikTok Shop Agency

Find out what you should focus on to optimize your TikTok shop's sales potential.

TikTok Shop - How to Work with Creators

Learn best practices for keeping your shop healthy, working with creators, managing campaigns and promotions, leveraging TikTok ads, and staying active in the community.

Operation Processes & Benefits of e-Commerce Integration

Leverage the full benefits of TikTok integration by first making sure you implement the right tools and processes.

STEP - State Trade Expansion Program

Your business may be eligible for up to $10,000 in reimbursement grants. FInd out more here.

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US to Anywhere: Global Digital Growth Series

How US-based companies can sell cross-border online outside their home market.

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Why sell online internationally?

Global industry leaders like Salesforce share their insights as to who is buying what and in which regions of the world.

Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform for Cross-border

With so many ecommerce platforms out there, it can be hard to make an informed choice, especially when selling cross-border. In this module, Perimeter provides an overview of the cross-border capabilities of the major ecommerce platforms in the market.

Conquering Cross-border Tax Compliance

Learn how to lower costs, grow revenue, and control your customers’ cross-border experience. It covers key topics, including conquering cross-border tax compliance for U.S. sellers selling internationally, common pitfalls of cross-border compliance, the top 9 challenges faced by cross-border sellers, and how automation can streamline your obligations and help overcome cross-border selling challenges

The Merchant of Record Model

How to reduce the administrative, regulatory, and payments burden on your company when going international? Learn how a merchant of record model for DTC cross-border sales can speed up your global expansion.

Cross-border Website Check-out Optimization

How to improve your customer experience and gain visibility on duties & taxes, and full “landed costs” instantly with a seamless cross-border enabled check-out experience

Cross-border Marketplace Management Optimization

Learn how to optimize your cross-border infrastructure to grow your business internationally.

Cross-border Payment Optimization

How to optimize your cross-border payment solution to ensure the best customer experience for your overseas buyers while also repatriating your funds in the most cost-effective, efficient, and timely manner.

Marketplace Internationalization Strategy - Partner-led Model

Let a partner manage your global marketplace expansion

US Commercial Service Export Support

How U.S.-based companies and SEA-based distributors can leverage the U.S. government to support selling into SEA and sourcing U.S. products.

STEP - State Trade Expansion Program

Your business may be eligible for up to $10,000 in reimbursement grants. FInd out more here.

EXIM Working Capital Guarantee and Export Credit Insurance

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) breaks down how exporters can use their export finance products.

Export Opportunities with the MBDA

Minority-owned firms seeking to penetrate new markets - domestic & global - and grow in size and scale, can access business experts at a MBDA Business Center.

SBA Export Financing Programs

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers a range of loan guarantees.

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Amazon Global Growth Hacks

Amazon is a global platform, why aren’t you? Everyone talks about leveraging Amazon to sell across multiple geographies but how does that actually work? How do you set it up and is there more than one way to squeeze the Amazon juice overseas? In this roadmap, we’ll walk through how to go from selling on Amazon in the U.S. to proactively and effectively selling on Amazon outside the U.S.

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Work With Your SBDC

From business management to export financing, learn about the services offered by your SBDC.

Build your Brand and Optimize Sales for Global Growth on Amazon

How to build your brand and grow your sales on Amazon outside the U.S. using available tools and tactics.

Simplifying Fulfillment with Amazon MCF

Discover how you can make fulfillment a success factor for your ecommerce strategy. Meet new and innovative partners to simplify your logistics.

Cross-border Payment Optimization

How to reduce your FX rates, reduce decline rates, and reduce operational expenses by leveraging earned funds in your target geography to pay for supplies and services without repatriating funds with Payoneer.

US Commercial Service Export Support

How U.S.-based companies can leverage the International Trade Administration to find distributors, licensees, JV partners and promote their products overseas.

Export Opportunities with the MBDA

Minority-owned firms seeking to penetrate new markets - domestic & global - and grow in size and scale, can access business experts at a MBDA Business Center.

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Hong Kong as a Hub: Global Digital Growth Series

In this workshop, learn which markets across Asia might be right for you based on the growth in online consumption of your product category and hear from the suite of industry and government service providers that can help you turn HK into your Asia-based hub for warehousing, fulfillment, payments and even digital marketing.

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US Commercial Service Export Support

How U.S.-based companies and SEA-based distributors can leverage the U.S. government to support selling into SEA and sourcing U.S. products.

SEA Growth Stats

Learn about online consumer trends across SouthEast Asia

Hylands: Brand Story

A US brand story about entering the Asia market via Hong Kong and vetting distributors.

Hong Kong: Your ideal partner for capturing global business opportunities

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council or HKTDC for short, is the official trade organization in Hong Kong. Our role is to promote trade through Hong Kong and a part of our mission is to support and promote Hong Kong’s role as a link connecting international companies with opportunities in the Greater Bay Area, Mainland China and ASEAN.

Marketplace Internationalization Strategy - Partner-led Model

Let a partner manage your global marketplace expansion

SEA Regional Fulfillment and Customer Service Strategies

How to increase sales through logistics and boost conversion with shipping technology and time-definite solutions.

How To Optimize Your Cross-border Payments across Asia with Zyla

Zyla, part of Alibaba’s Ant Group, is the U.S. cousin to Alipay. With its strong roots in Asia, Zyla offers a cost-effective and feature-rich way to transact across the region.

Conquering Cross-border Tax Compliance

Cross-border Payment Optimization

The Merchant of Record Model

EXIM Working Capital Guarantee and Export Credit Insurance

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) breaks down how exporters can use their export finance products.

SBA Export Financing Programs

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers a range of loan guarantees.

STEP - State Trade Expansion Program

Your business may be eligible for up to $10,000 in reimbursement grants. FInd out more here.

Export Opportunities with the MBDA

Minority-owned firms seeking to penetrate new markets - domestic & global - and grow in size and scale, can access business experts at a MBDA Business Center.

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US to Europe: Global Digital Growth Series

With the European Union’s internet penetration now at 91% and e-Shoppers at 75% and 70% of EU retailers having NO online presence at all, now is the time for U.S. online retailers to grow into Europe. But which countries are right for your product vertical and how do you build the right foundation including service providers in logistics, fulfillment, digital brand building, payments, tax and compliance, marketplace management and DTC platform infrastructure?

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Why sell online into Europe?

Global industry leaders like Salesforce share their insights as to who is buying what and in which regions of the world.

5 Considerations for Entering the EU Market

Learn what your major considerations are when building your foundation for EU sales and how agencies like Brandsom can work with you to address them.

Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform for Cross-border

An analysis of the major ecommerce platform from a cross-border functionality perspective including multilingual capabilities, payments, check-out, welcome mats, omni-channel sales, B2B and B2C on the same site, payment terms, tracking, local load speeds, IP address triggers and more.

The Merchant of Record Model

Reducing your cross-border administrative, regulatory and financial burden through a Merchant of Record Model.

Conquering Cross-border Tax Compliance

Learn how Avalara can help you get duties and taxes compliant across different jurisdictions.

Cross-border Marketplace Management Optimization

Learn how to optimize your cross-border infrastructure to grow your business internationally.

Cross-border Payment Optimization

How to build your brand online across Europe

How to leverage paid advertising, SEO and marketing techniques to build your brand online across Europe. This will also touch on nuances between EU countries.

EXIM Working Capital Guarantee and Export Credit Insurance

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) breaks down how exporters can use their export finance products.

State Trade Expansion Program (STEP)

Your business may be eligible for up to $10,000 in reimbursement grants.

US Commercial Service Export Support

How U.S.-based companies and SEA-based distributors can leverage the U.S. government to support selling into SEA and sourcing U.S. products.

SBA Export Financing Programs

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers a range of loan guarantees.

Export Opportunities with the MBDA

Minority-owned firms seeking to penetrate new markets - domestic & global - and grow in size and scale, can access business experts at a MBDA Business Center.

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How to sell into the Middle East market via cross-border digital channels: Global Digital Growth Series

As consumers across the Middle East region have grown accustomed to purchasing online and cross-border, retailers are following suit. In the UAE, consumers are buying more online from outside the region, driving an anticipated 34% growth in cross-border online sales over the next three years

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Why sell into the Middle East?

An overview from DubaiSouth covering online consumption across the region, including who is buying what, where, and how to place inventory closer to your consumers.

Using analytics tools to evaluate your competitiveness on marketplaces across the Middle East

Leveraging marketplace tools such as Sellematics and SellScreen, you can look under the hood and see what people are buying online in the Middle East in your product category.

Choosing the Right eCommerce Platform for Cross-border

Cross-border Marketplace Management Optimization

Learn how to optimize your cross-border infrastructure to grow your business internationally.

Enter the Middle East with Noon.com, a leading regional marketplace.

Understanding who is selling what across the Noon marketplace and how you can set-up and start selling.

Cross-border Website Check-out Optimization

How to improve your customer experience and gain visibility on duties & taxes, and full “landed costs” instantly with a seamless cross-border enabled check-out experience

The Merchant of Record Model

Conquering Cross-border Tax Compliance

Cross-border Payment Optimization

Regional and Cross-border fulfillment optimization with DHL

How to fulfill orders to ensure the best customer experience and when and where to place inventory to reduce your compliance and operational resource burden.

US Commercial Service Export Support

How U.S.-based companies and SEA-based distributors can leverage the U.S. government to support selling into SEA and sourcing U.S. products.

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Omnichannel Retail

The way consumers shop has drastically changed. Learn how a strong omnichannel strategy will ensure you deliver a consistent brand experience everywhere you sell.

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The OmniChannel Imperative

Selling across multiple channels and geographies.

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Cross-border Payments Optimization

Ensuring tax and duties compliance, as well as getting paid for your cross-border E-Commerce business has the potential to cause headaches. Learn how to manage this complexity with industry leading solutions.

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The Merchant of Record Model

Cross-border Payment Optimization

How To Optimize Your Cross-border Payments across Asia with Zyla

Zyla, part of Alibaba’s Ant Group, is the U.S. cousin to Alipay. With its strong roots in Asia, Zyla offers a cost-effective and feature-rich way to transact across the region.

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U.S. Government Financing and Grants for Global Expansion

U.S. Government Financing and Grants for Global Expansion: Fuel your International Expansion with these U.S. Government Finance Programs, Reimbursable Grants and Free Consulting Services

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STEP - State Trade Expansion Program

Your business may be eligible for up to $10,000 in reimbursement grants. FInd out more here.

Global New York with Empire State Development

Learn how you could use a STEP grant to fuel your international expansion through the Global New York program.

Agribusiness - Export Promotion Programs

Learn more about the financing options available for agribusiness.

SBA Export Financing Programs

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers a range of loan guarantees.

EXIM Working Capital Guarantee and Export Credit Insurance

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) breaks down how exporters can use their export finance products.

Improve your Loan Application with Carver Bank

Carver Bank goes over how to best prepare your loan application to improve your chances of approval

SBDC Los Angeles - Go Global Program

The LA SBDC Go Global program includes no-cost focused one-on-one technical advising.

Work With Your SBDC

From business management to export financing, learn about the services offered by your SBDC.

Explore Export Opportunities with the MBDA

Minority-owned firms seeking to penetrate new markets — domestic & global — and grow in size and scale, can access business experts at a MBDA Business Center.

US Commercial Service Export Support

How U.S.-based companies and SEA-based distributors can leverage the U.S. government to support selling into SEA and sourcing U.S. products.

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Selling Online to South East Asia

There's never been a better time to start selling online to consumers in your neighboring countries across Southeast Asia. Build your entire cross-border eCommerce roadmap in this single workshop with industry leaders from across the globe! All through the award-winning GrowBig Initiative eCommerce workshop platform used by governments and industry to accelerate merchant growth across multiple channels and geographies.

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SEA Online Consumer Trends

What are the trends in online consumption across SouthEast Asia by country, channel, and product vertical.

Introduction to the Singapore Business Federation

How can they help support your international online sales through market advisory, networking, and more.

How to Setup and Manage Listings on Marketplaces

How to manage your inventory and syndicate your listings across multiple online sales channels such as marketplaces, your own website and social commerce sites.

Cross-border Website Check-out Optimization

How to improve your customer experience and gain visibility on duties & taxes, and full “landed costs” instantly with a seamless cross-border enabled check-out experience

SEA Regional Fulfillment and Customer Service Strategies

How to increase sales through logistics and boost conversion with shipping technology and time-definite solutions.

Cross-border Payment Optimization

How to Build Your Brand Across SouthEast Asia on Social Media

How to build your brand across social media and avoid common digital marketing and content localization pitfalls.

Introduction to the US-ASEAN Business Council’s SME Academy

Introduction to the resources provided by the US-ASEAN Business Council's SME Academy, which can support your growth with a global network and training services

US Commercial Service Export Support

How U.S.-based companies and SEA-based distributors can leverage the U.S. government to support selling into SEA and sourcing U.S. products.

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Latin America Market Entry

Sell direct to over 300 million consumers in Latin America through Mercado Libre with a direct plugin to your website.

We'll cover product syndication, localization, payment optimization, digital marketing and how to clear customs.

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Why Latin America?

Latin America could be the next major expansion opportunity for your business. Find out why!

Why Brazil?

The US Commercial Service goes over the opportunities presented by the second largest market in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil.

Latin America Market Entry with Mercado Libre

Mercado Libre is Latin America's leading marketplace. Learn more about the opportunity presented by the Latin American market and how you can use Mercado Libre to enter this market.

How to Setup and Manage Listings on Marketplaces

How to manage your inventory and syndicate your listings across multiple online sales channels such as marketplaces, your own website and social commerce sites.

Build your Brand on Marketplaces with SOLU

Learn to optimize your marketplace listings and customer support strategies to grow your reputation in Latin America.

Optimize your LATAM Cross-Border Payments with Payoneer

Getting paid for transactions in Latin America need not be complicated. Payoneer has some simple solutions to make your cross-border transactions seamless.

Opciones Para El Manejo De Los Pedidos De Tus Compradores

Estrategias de logística incremental para iniciar y hacer crecer su negocio de comercio electrónico en América Latina.

Customs & Regulatory Concerns for Mexico market entry with DICEX/MEXBUY

Ensure that your products are compliant with local regulations for online sales in Mexico.

Conquering Cross-border Tax Compliance

Go Global with the SBDC

Find out how your business can Go Global with help from your SBDC.

State Trade Expansion Program (STEP)

Your business may be eligible for up to $10,000 in reimbursement grants.

Export Financing Programs from the SBA

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers a ranger of loan guarantees.

Export Promotion Programs for Agribusiness

Learn more about financing options available for agribusiness.

Export Finance with EXIM

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) breaks down how exporters can use their export finance products.

Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT)

United around the globe, OWIT’s goal is to foster international trade and the advancement of women in business.

Export Support from the US Commercial Service

How U.S.-based companies and in market distributors can leverage the U.S. government to support selling and sourcing U.S. products.

Export Opportunities with the MBDA

Minority-owned firms seeking to penetrate new markets - domestic & global - and grow in size and scale, can access business experts at a MBDA Business Center.

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Navigating the Troubled Supply Chain

Supply chain issues have become a frustrating reality for business. Learn what strategies you can use to make the best of this difficult situation.

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Creating a 321 ByPass Program with Alba Wheels Up

Your business could be leaving money on the table, paying unnecessary import duties. Find out how you can optimize your supply chain.

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Direct to Consumer Alcohol Sales

Total estimated off-premise sales of domestic table and sparkling wines were $34.8 billion dollars, including the $4.2 billion shipped direct-to-consumer. The importance of the Direct-to-Consumer wine channel is only growing, with overall market share for DtC wine shipments climbing to just over 12% in 2021. That’s up from 10% last year and the largest ever share for DtC.

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Why Sell Online? with Sovos ShipCompliant

Sovos ShipCompliant solves beverage alcohol compliance for producers, suppliers, shippers and government agencies through accurate, real-time, available-anywhere technology.

If you are in the alcohol industry, selling online could be a game-changer. Find out why.

Qualifying your Technology Ecosystem with BigCommerce

Save time and money with a platform designed for the functionality small businesses need. With more built-in features than other leading platforms, BigCommerce gives you the power to grow your business from day one.

A2C: Alcohol-to-Consumer

BigCommerce + ShipCompliant Integration

A turnkey, enterprise-ready solution for combining the selling powerof BigCommerce with the compliance automation of ShipCompliant.

Grow Your Sales Through Loyalty and Subscription Strategies with Bold Commerce

At Bold, we believe brands should have the ability to create and customize powerful commerce experiences, across all channels. Named one of North America’s fastest-growing tech companies, Bold provides innovative ecommerce technology to 90,000+ brands in more than 170 countries around the world.

Tax & Compliance Strategies with Sovos ShipCompliant

Sovos ShipCompliant solves beverage alcohol compliance for producers, suppliers, shippers and government agencies through accurate, real-time, available-anywhere technology.

Ensuring compliance with all levels of regulation is critical. Learn how Sovos ShipCompliant can handle this obstacle for you, allowing you to focus on what you do best.

Cross-Border Wine Sales with Gliding Eagle

Selling wine cross-border is possible, and could present a huge opportunity.

Since 2015 Gliding Eagle has focused on helping clients track and deliver wines Direct-To-Consumer internationally.

US Government Financing to Support E-Commerce Expansion

Get and overview of the available financing options to support E-Commerce expansion with export finance expert Simona Racek.

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Export Financing Navigator

The SBA offers three export specific loan guarantees. Find out what they are, and what will be required in order to apply at an SBA approved lender.

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SBA Export Loan Products

Learn about the three main export focused loan guarantees offered by the Small Business Administration (SBA).

Prepare to apply for an SBA Export Loan

Lenders will most likely have requirements above and beyond those asked by the SBA. Prepare to impress your lender in order to secure your SBA guaranteed export loan.

Export Financing Plan

Build an Export FInancing Plan in anticipation of applying for an SBA export loan guarantee.