Events and Seminars

This full day workshop provides exporters a good overview of the key regulatory, business and marketing issues involved in exporting to the United States. The workshop highlights the challenges involved in doing business in this sophisticated and highly competitive country consisting of 52 different regional markets. Relevant Kiwi exporter stories and guest speakers will be included providing useful marketing tips and lessons learnt.

This full day workshop is suitable for new and existing exporters, and their staff wanting to improve their US market knowledge and performance.

Part 1 - Business and Regulatory Overview 

• Market Opportunities
• Importing Regulations
• Tax Issues
• Business and Product Compliance
• Protecting your Intellectual Property
• Doing Business in the United States
• Budgets for Setting up a Business
• Employment & US Immigration Issues
• Insurance and Banking

Part 2 - Marketing Issues

• Go in Prepared
• One Country, Many Markets
• Understanding the Differences
• Get Wired
• Distribution is King
• Price for the Market
• Allies in the Market
• Give it Time
  

Price: $660 + GST per participant
Early Bird Price: Book before17 February and pay $594 + GST
This price includes a complimentary 45 minute export audit session after the workshop.

Your presenter - Jacinta Clark
Jacinta Clark has over 20 years' export trade and business development experience, successfully providing specialist strategic advice, market research and promotional assistance to well over  50 New Zealand exporting companies  (and industry groups) targeting the US market.

Jacinta is a former New Zealand Trade Commissioner to Washington DC where she provided strategic advice, market research and representational assistance to resulting in several contract awards worth over NZ$7 million in export revenue.