Show 6 - Build Your Business Overseas

In this episode of www.smallbusinessadvice.tv presenter Sean Walsh has encouraging news for small businesses that are looking to expand into new markets over the next 12 months. With the pound at its lowest level for years, highly attractive opportunities are opening up for companies who want to develop their business overseas.

Joining Sean in the studio to analyse these opportunities, will be Ian Campbell OBE, Consulting Editor of International Trade Today and entrepreneur Rob Law, founder of independent design studio Magmatic.

Some of us will remember Rob from his appearance on Dragon's Den. Rob had spent 11 years and £17,000 of his own money developing his Trunki range of ride-on children's luggage. But when he pitched it to the Dragons, they gave him a scathingly rough ride. They flatly refused to invest in Trunki, going so far as to tell him his company was 'worthless'. Suffice it to say, they’re probably regretting it now. Just two years later Trunki is a runaway international success, with 150,000 units sold and distribution secured in more than 40 countries.

Rob will be discussing how best to prepare your company for any planned venture into the overseas marketplace. Complementary to that, Ian will be offering his expert advice on how best to manage your plans for exporting operations in 2009.

And as always, we will have our regular round up of all the latest small business news from the British Chambers of Commerce.

If you have any questions for Sean, Ian or Rob, please use the form to send them in early and we will do our best to answer them live during the show.