Re: [spiers] Export Help !
In a message dated 5/23/03 11:48:34 AM, DJIMENEZ33184@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
<< I am overwhelmed by how much information there is on exporting and i
dont know where to start.
***What ?!!! Hundreds of millions of taxpayers money to promote exports and
they forgot the part about where to start?!?!***
I am leaning more towards exporting products made
in the US to other countries(I forgot what the exact term for this is
called.)
***Exporting will be clear enough.***
The products can range from garbage bags all the way to car parts
but i dont know exactly how to go about this. I really would like some help
so i can get my dream off the ground. I would like a step by step approach
to this so i can really comprehend everything, if there are any step by step
books that you can recomed that would be even better. Ive also attened some
seminars provided bt the SBA their SCORE programd but the info is limited
and sketchy.
*** Hmmm... well, let that be a lesson to you!***
Any responses will be greatly appreciated. By the way i live
here in Miami ,Florida so if any one out there would let me work for you in
your Export Company that would also be good.I almost forgot to mention that
i already have my own DBA set up,PMR MOTORSPORTS its a car accessories
company. I wanted to know if the car accessories business is profitable and
can money really be made here with hard work.
*** Now, if looking for work, you mustn't say "I don't know what to do or
where to start." This is not encouraging to many employers. Why would one
start up a business without knowing if it is profitable? So let's back up...
those you see thriving may have started by solving a problem, not by hoping a
dream comes true. There is a book on small biz int'l trade, in fact I wrote it.
People tell me it is the best book on the topic. You can find various sources
for the book at
http://www.johnspiers.com/Write.html
So read that book, especially chapter eight, and then see if your questions
change. Sometoimes progress is just gettiing the question right.***
John Spiers
Friday, May 23, 2003
Export Help !
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Export Help !
I am overwhelmed by how much information there is on exporting and i
dont know where to start. I am leaning more towards exporting products made
in the US to other countries(I forgot what the exact term for this is
called.) The products can range from garbage bags all the way to car parts
but i dont know exactly how to go about this. I really would like some help
so i can get my dream off the ground. I would like a step by step approach
to this so i can really comprehend everything, if there are any step by step
books that you can recomed that would be even better. Ive also attened some
seminars provided bt the SBA their SCORE programd but the info is limited
and sketchy. Any responses will be greatly appreciated. By the way i live
here in Miami ,Florida so if any one out there would let me work for you in
your Export Company that would also be good.I almost forgot to mention that
i already have my own DBA set up,PMR MOTORSPORTS its a car accessories
company. I wanted to know if the car accessories business is profitable and
can money really be made here with hard work.
Thanks a Million,
David Jimenez
Informal Entry and license on copy right
Re: [spiers] Informal Entry and license on copy right
In a message dated 5/22/03 1:52:57 AM, fhgu@netzero.net writes:
Hi John, a few months ago there had been some discussion on informal entry.
My understanding is that if the shipment is under $2000 and shipped directly
to my home then I would not have to use a custom broker. Does it have to be
via air freight? Or it could be via surface as long as the shipment is coming to
my home.
***$2K per conveyance, so it can be trucked or boat or plane, what ever you
like...***
I am dealing with candy here, one of the product lines this SE Asia
manufacture has is candy wrapped or shaped in a well-done Japanese cartoon
character.
The sales director told me that they are authorized and licensee by the
Japanese media production company. And that every candy I buy from them, royalty
is
calculated into the total price. The Japanese media production company has also
trade marked the character here in the US. Now, will I have trouble importing
and selling these candy in the US? If I apply the idea of "importer as
manufacture" then I think I will need to obtain license from the Japanese
company,
but I don't really make them and I am paying royalty already when buying from
the manufacture. Any idea?
***Aha, this is where the customsbroker you seek t avoid comes in... they can
tell you what documentation you need, and as for all that, better safe than
sorry. What is your goal? To import these... then get all your info from the
customs broker, but for initial samples just have them sent to your house, why
waste the brokers talent on an informal entry?
There is another problem that concerns me though... you describe a classic
"off-the-shelf" item. Say it is popular, and you do well with it, it is only a
matter of time that somebody prefers what appears to be your profits rather
than what they know to be their own.
Say someone is struggling in the biz eeking out $25,000 per year, and
believes you are making $50,000 per year. He will come after you, and you will
have
to cut your prices to survive. This is just one scenario when dealing in
off-the-shelf items.
Now here is the problem: to get where people notice you, you have to
reinvest your profits, meaning WHEN they steal your idea, you no longer have a
means
to recoup your investment, and don't. I suspect this is a source for many
peoples idea that importing is a matter of finding something cool overseas and
making a killing. Outsiders assume that since someone has an office and space
at a trade show, and travels, they must be doing very well indeed. Perhaps,
but whatever they are making is going into the company the first few years... it
is the longevity where these biz pay off.
With 30 years experience, I've seen countless examples of this... people who
were on the cover of Inc. magazine for the wonderful biz they had, only to be
gone within a year or so.
Competing with existiing products is like having a restaurant where your most
used tool is the can opener... people will catch on and lose interest. But
you still have the expense of the restaurant itself.
If you are into candy action figures, shouldn't develop your own?
John
Informal Entry and license on copy right
Hi John, a few months ago there had been some discussion on informal entry. My
understanding is that if the shipment is under $2000 and shipped directly to my
home then I would not have to use a custom broker. Does it have to be via air
freight? Or it could be via surface as long as the shipment is coming to my
home.
I am dealing with candy here, one of the product lines this SE Asia manufacture
has is candy wrapped or shaped in a well-done Japanese cartoon character. The
sales director told me that they are authorized and licensee by the Japanese
media production company. And that every candy I buy from them, royalty is
calculated into the total price. The Japanese media production company has also
trade marked the character here in the US. Now, will I have trouble importing
and selling these candy in the US? If I apply the idea of "importer as
manufacture" then I think I will need to obtain license from the Japanese
company, but I don't really make them and I am paying royalty already when
buying from the manufacture. Any idea?
Thanks
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
A Proposal
Folks,
I am delighted that some of you refer others on to my class, so I propose to
pay 1/3rd of my instructor fees (Currently $95, so 1/3 = $32 to you) for each
student you send, if you send them to me from your website (almost every
Internet Service Provider also offers a website at no charge, if you do not
presently have one). In essence, this would be a paid ad on your website,
and entirely optional on your part.
In this way we expand our commmunity of traders and you gain compensation for
your efforts on my behalf. With more like minds involved in small business
international trade we can advance our shared interests ever more.
I own an ecommerce site called Seattle Teachers College
(www.seattleteacherscollege.net) that is powered by Yahoo! stores, operating
since 1998. Its functions are equal or superior to anything Amazon.com can
do, and allows me to issue you a link that you may put on your website. With
this link to my class at Seattle Teachers College, Yahoo! will act as a third
party monitor and report all traffic from your site to mine, and any sales
that are generated. You will be given a second URL that allows you to
independently access these reports for you to study at your leisure, which
you can bookmark. This capability provides the practical means to monitor and
account for references and payments.
I will pay the fee after the course is done, to assure any cancellations or
refunds are taken into account.
My assistant Bo Frank will be managing this project, so reply to
bolinasfrank@earthlink.net and he will issue you the proper links. If you do
not know how to put a link in your website, Bo will assist you in this
process. You may reply at any time to have your link issued to you, and the
agreement will last as long as both parties agree, and either party may
cancel the agreement at any time. Any fees owing will be paid regardless of
any cancellation of the agreement.
Take this time to upgrade your website into an asset and build the community
of small business international traders. Contact Bo now at
bolinasfrank@earthlink.net to answer your questions and get your links.
Sincerely
John Spiers
SARS Risk, or not.
Folks,
Here are the hard facts...
WHO medical experts announced
they have determined a total of 16 people became infected
with SARS on
airplanes, all early in the outbreak before airlines adopted
tough screening
measures.
"There were 35 flights on which SARS-infected people who were
symptomatic with disease traveled," said Dr. David Heymann,
WHO's chief
of communicable diseases. "We know, however, that on only
four of those
planes was there actually passage of the disease. We believe
that 16 people
on four different airplanes got infected."
Of those, 14 were passengers sitting within four seats of
the SARS patient
and two were flight attendants, said Mike Ryan, WHO's
coordinator of the
global effort to prevent the spread of severe acute
respiratory syndrome.
"Proximity is a huge part of this picture. The vast majority
have been within
two rows in front or two rows behind. Not sharing toilets,
not walking up and
down the aisle, not sitting in the waiting area _ none of
those issues seem to
be associated," Ryan said at a news conference on the
sidelines of the WHO
session.
All 16 cases occurred before March 23, four days before the
U.N. health
agency recommended that airlines screen passengers for signs
of SARS and
advised that suspected cases not be allowed to travel. SARS
is not
contagious unless symptoms are showing, experts say.
"The phenomenon of airline transmission of SARS is
historical now, we
believe," Ryan said. "Of course, there is always a risk if a
SARS patient gets
on a plane, but the idea is to prevent them from getting on
the plane in the
first place and the risk, we believe, has been reduced now
to infinitesimally
low levels because of screening and surveillance."
"We're not seeing anyone with infection getting on flights
at the moment,"
Ryan said.
In another effort to boost travel, China is reducing landing
fees by 20
percent, the International Air Transport Association said
Monday, adding
that several other countries have already done the same.
Re: samples..
In a message dated 5/20/03 4:11:39 AM, phr.com writes:
John,
I have a company in tiawan ready to send some samples of a gps antenna. They
want my shipper account, which I have only with UPS. I don't mind paying
for shippment, but is UPS the way to go? Can I get an account with the USPS?
Weight should be under 2 pounds. Should I go through my Customs Broker?
Pete
Well, UPS is likely the simplest, if the most expensive... but do you care if
is costs $20 to ship UPS and only $10 USPS if it will save you 4 hours of
headache? Call UPS and get a price quote and know.
John