Offshore Riches: A Guide to Recession-proofing Your Business

by Raymond Hopkins

Overview

This book is for business owners and aspiring international entrepreneurs who want to:
* Recession-proof their business
* Select the best alternative and simplify their offshore market entry
* Discover their exportable products and services
* Determine their best offshore target market alternative

In this complete, comprehensive primer, you'll learn:
* The unbelievable impact of offshore market entry on your business
* Who and where your customers are, and
* What to know before you go offshore

Amid the current recession business owners across the globe perceive the largest barrier to offshore riches and recession-proofing their business is a lack of knowledge and the seeming complexity of it all. In reading you'll learn:
* Why you needn't go it alone
* The ins and outs of foreign travel
* How to build relationships that work, and
* How to make the sale and get paid

Don't run the risk of:
* The Global Rise of Inflation and Recession
* Missed Opportunities for International Market Growth
* The Lack of International Skills Trap

If you have a business you love and want to diversify and increase your international cash flow in an economic downturn or prospective recession, this book is for you! Don't miss out!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185602003
Publisher:	Raymond Hopkins
Publication date:	04/03/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	448 KB

About the Author

Doctor and Business Development/Contracts Management Executive, Raymond Hopkins is the author of Grow Your Global Markets and several articles in refereed marketing journals. Working in the fields of international procurement and contract administration, he has purchased aircraft parts and structures from South Korea and Japan and negotiated the execution and administration of contracts for the sale of rotorcraft, upgrades, structures, and parts to the U. S. Government and customers in Southeast Asia (Japan, South Korea), South America (Colombia) and Europe (Denmark, United Kingdom).

He began his career in sales with U.S. Steel Corporation moving into subcontract management with Fluor Engineers Inc., C. F. Braun Co. procuring petrochemical plant control systems, contract manufacturing for U.S. Borax & Chemical Corporation. For Hughes Helicopters Inc. (later McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. and The Boeing Company), he initially procured military aircraft components and light helicopter fuselages ($6.5 million annually) from South Korea and other aircraft components from Japan.

Raymond is a graduate of California State University at Fullerton with a B.A. in political science, California State University at Los Angeles with an M.S. in public administration, and Nova Southeastern University with a Doctorate in Business Administration. He has completed additional graduate work in law, international Business, and U.S. Government Contracts. He was awarded the 2010 Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award and has delivered graduate and undergraduate college courses in marketing and international business. In his spare time, he enjoys teaching marketing and international business as MBA adjunct faculty.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in a family of four boys and one girl, Ray lives with his wife, Madeleine, in Chandler, Arizona.