Today in Global Small Business: Growing Your Business Beyond Borders

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• News!  Join a weggchat™ via Twitter with Laurel Delaney on "Take Your Business Global" August 8 at 11:00 a.m. Central time.  Instructions here.  E-commerce will be covered.
• How SMEs can build a global approach for growth.
• Not costs, but unpredictability worries SMBs regarding trucker drive shortage.
• Facebook’s in-house creative agency, Creative Shop’s Vice President and Chief Creative Officer, Mark D’Arcy, moves into expanded role as the platform’s VP of Global Business Marketing.
• Alibaba equips individuals with the skills needed for e-commerce success in the digital economy through it Global E-Commerce Talent (GET) Network.
• The risks and opportunities to growing your business beyond borders.