SBA's Export Experts Offer Help on Going International

Web Chat with SBA’s Office of International Trade

 Thursday, January 28, 2010, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., ET

WASHINGTON – The SBA’s January Web Chat will highlight exporting basics and general SBA capital and credit programs for small business owners.  Entering foreign markets can be a great way to boost sales and SBA offers loan programs to help small businesses expand or develop an export market.  Business owners can find out if they are ready for exporting and learn more about how to get started.

WHO:                    Richard Ginsburg and Patrick Tunison of SBA’s Office of International Trade will co-host the January Web Chat on “Small Business Exporting and Access to Credit.”  Ginsburg and Tunison will answer question on how to grow a business through exporting.

WHAT:                  SBA’s Web chat series, providing small business owners with an opportunity to discuss relevant business issues online with experts, industry leaders and successful entrepreneurs.  Chat participants will have direct, real-time access to the Web chats via questions they submit online in advance and during the live session, with instant answers.

WHEN:           January 28, 2010, 1 p.m. ET

Ginsburg and Tunison will answer questions for one hour.      

HOW:                    Participants can join the live Web chat by going online to www.sba.gov, and clicking “Online Business Chat.”  Web chat participants may post questions before the January 28^th chat by visiting http://web.sba.gov/livemeeting/Jan10/and posting their questions online. 

To review archives of past Web chats, visit online at http://www.sba.gov/tools/monthlywebchat/index.html