"I ran global product management, marketing and sales
operations for several Silicon-Valley based, high-tech companies.
Even with that experience, I learned more about international
trade in your one-day course than in the last 25 years. It was
fantastic!
Keith Blackey, San Mateo. CA "
Learn how you can become an importer now in a one-day seminar highly rated for the instructor's experience, pace, candor and humor. You will be guided through licensing, selecting products, finding suppliers; working with governments, bankers, brokers, carriers; financing, costing and pricing, and gaining orders for your products. This knowledge becomes the basis for an export business as well. After the seminar, help via email with instructor and past students is included. Start that business! Travel! Work out of your home to start!
Recommended course text, How Small Business Trades Worldwide, By John Spiers, is available at the school bookstores.
Saturday, 9 am - 5 pm
About the Instructor
John Spiers has worked in Seattle and San Francisco and travelled extensively worldwide with import-export companies since 1974, in virtually every position. Since 1984, John is self-employed trading internationally. John shares what he has done in the past, what he has advised others to do successfully, and what he is doing now all in a seminar highly rated by participants.
The course is offered regularly at the following schools. Generally you may click on the link and find either the semiinar listed or a search box in which you can put "importing" and the current course will come up.
Seattle, University of Washington Experimental College
"John's communication skills, ideas, experience, handouts
were exceptional. This armed me with reality about (the) business...this
class was better than the two years I spent getting my MBA.
Paula Royalty, Bellevue, WA"
eMail: John@JohnSpiers.com