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| Laurel Delaney
WE Inc. Global Markets Advisor
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May 7, 2007
Laurel Delaney is a successful entrepreneur, author, speaker and educator with more than 20 years of experience in global business.
Ms. Delaney has traveled extensively internationally. Her 18-year old firm, Global TradeSource, Ltd. (online arm GlobeTrade.com), offers global marketing and consulting services aimed toward entrepreneurs and small businesses. She is a renowned global small business expert. Her first book, "Start and Run a Profitable Exporting Business" (Self Counsel Press, 1998), was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Journal of Commerce, Entrepreneur and Inc. She is an adjunct Professor of M.B.A. International Marketing at Loyola University of Chicago.
Ms. Delaney's articles have appeared in numerous international newspapers and business publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Business, Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry, Dun & Bradstreet, China International Business & Technology and The Conference Board. She is a contributing author in The Research Handbook For International Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar Publishing, U.K., August, 2004), a breakthrough guide on global entrepreneurship.
Awarded the Small Business Administration's "Illinois Exporter of the Year," Ms. Delaney serves on the Illinois Board of Higher Education International Education Industry Advisory Council, private sector, and on the board of Illinois Center for International Business and Education and Research (CIBER). She also serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board of the "Journal of International Entrepreneurship," and on the Advisory Board of Women Entrepreneurs Inc. She is the Chicago chapter facilitator for Women Presidents' Organization.
Ms. Delaney is the founder of The Global Small Business Blog, a community for entrepreneurs and small businesses interested in going global. In addition, she writes and publishes a free monthly, 12-page e-newsletter called "Borderbuster," which is highly regarded in the big as well as small business community for its excellence in providing important global business information. She is busy at work writing her next book and establishing a new company: LaurelDelaney.com, a place where her best work lies ahead.
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