© Laurel J. Delaney  2016

Laurel J. Delaney, Exporting, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2193-8_1

1. Are You Ready to Export?

Laurel J. Delaney

(1)Ste LL, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Exports have played a critical role in America’s economic comeback, and they continued to do so in 2014.

—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker (2014)

Anyone who wants to export , can. The world awaits. The essential element needed to be successful exporting is readiness. The rest is mechanics and know-how. Whether you’re a first-time exporter or entering a new market, selling goods and services across borders is easy and just a mouse click away. I’m here to show you how. But before I get to that, let me take you back to a little more than twenty-five years ago.

It was 1985. Even back ...

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