Empower Network – A Local Global Business
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
A Local Global Business
Now that may seem a very strange headline for a blog post but “A Local Global Business” is actually the strap line of HSBC Bank and their whole advertising campaign is based around helping local businesses go global.
In Empower Network, we already each have a local global business because no matter where we are in the world, as a home based entrepreneur, we have access to a global market. Right now Empower Network is already in more than 170 countries and growing.
The headline for this blog post – A Local Global Business came about when Susan was interviewing a colleague Carol Douthitt and heard her story about how she started her first business as a child making and selling lemonade.
A Local Global Business – Carol Douthitt talks to Susan Beesley
We don’t watch TV a great deal but we do remember the very inspiring advert of the little girl who buys lemons and sets up a lemonade stall outside her home and the follow on adverts show her expanding her business globally. Great concept and actually with Empower Network it is totally possible to have a local global business.
A Local Global Business – The Lemonade Story
We think you can see the picture ……
Susan got to thinking about here first steps as an entrepreneur selling roses Aged 8 outside her parents home ….. that’s another story to be told another time.
What we loved about Carol’s Story was that she although successful, at one time she lost it all but that didn’t deter her. She discovered the internet just like we did (although a lot earlier when it was in its infancy) and had to learn the hard way how to build a list and to make money online.
Nowadays, with Empower Network, the tools and knowledge are at your finger tips from the moment you join and all the training and knowledge you need to propel your business forward is right there for you. From day one you have a local global business.
Just the other day we were reading an interesting post over at Mashable called “10 Ways to Turn your Local Business Into a Global Business” (same theme – local global business)
Today’s Internet represents a momentous age in the history of global commerce. Never before have so many people met in one, international marketplace. It has never been so easy to reach so many people.
Now they are talking mainly about overcoming the technology challenges of websites and translating of content etc (Read More Here) but it certainly makes you think.
Even now we as home business entrepreneurs face the challenges of the fact that Empower Network is growing and expanding into countries where English is not the first language and where we need to consider for the future how we will face that challenge of the local global business in that respect. The company is so forward thinking we are certain they have that covered!
The wonderful thing about Empower Network is that it is a truly local global business – it is a business we can operate from anywhere in the world as long as we have a computer and an internet connection and that for us allows us to live our dream. Our dream of a local global business – and to meet some truly amazing people and visit places we have always wanted to visit and never could before now.
Next stop is Chicago in two weeks time …. can’t wait.
Got some more questions? Check out our FAQ’s
Get your Local Global Business here
PS If you liked this please Tweet, Google + and Pin it