Communications

• Best global phone plans

  What are the best inter­na­tional call­ing plans?

• Immigrants: America’s Next Mobile Tech Opportunity

  Immi­grants are heav­ier users of mobile tech­nol­ogy than the over­all U.S. population.

Digital Marketing

• Introduction to Online Marketing

  Your cus­tomers are online. You need to be too.

• Online Marketing Plan: Ming Wang Knits

  Tips and ideas you can use to make your online mar­ket­ing plan more productive.

• Online Marketing Plan: Rico M. Panada

  Advice on how to drive more traf­fic onto the company’s website.

• Set Up Your Online Sales Plan

  A step-by-step guide to make your web­site a sell­ing machine.

• Social Media Tips: Ming Wang Knits

  Learn how Ming Wang uses social media to gain a com­pet­i­tive advantage.

Financing

• A New Service that Matches Immigrant Entrepreneurs with Lenders

  Intuit’s Loan Finder helps immi­grant busi­nesses find hard-to-find loans

• Alternative Financing Smarts

  Think again. Asset-based lenders and fac­tors may be ready to help you grow your business.

• Angel Investing Crib Sheet

  What you must know before sell­ing a stake in your busi­ness to out­side investors.

• Avoid These Five Credit Pitfalls

  For immi­grant entre­pre­neurs not accus­tomed to the US finan­cial cul­ture, credit man­age­ment may seem a daunt­ing task. Learn­ing from oth­ers’ mis­takes could make it eas­ier to tackle. This story is the final install­ment of the series on how to achieve busi­ness suc­cess in a credit-driven country.

• Bank Loan Basics

  It’s not easy to bor­row these days—but it’s still possible.

• Credit Card Financing 101

  Count­less entre­pre­neurs have used credit cards to finance their busi­nesses. But be care­ful how you use them, there are risks involved.

• Financing by Friends, Family

  Loans and invest­ments from your biggest fans can be easy to get, but make sure they don’t dam­age your relationships.

• Finding a Loan When Banks Drag Their Heels

  After months of search­ing for financ­ing, one Indian immi­grant found fund­ing through Intuit’s Loan Finder

• Five Steps To Manage Your Credit

  This is part three of our four-part series on the impor­tance of credit for immi­grant entre­pre­neurs who want to build a suc­cess­ful busi­ness in Amer­ica. In this install­ment, we’ll tell you how to man­age the credit you’ve worked so hard to establish.

• How To Raise $18 Million For Your Startup

  Need to raise fund­ing for your busi­ness? Watch this inter­view to see how.

• Immpreneur’s Guide To Credit

  This is the first arti­cle in a four-part series on how immi­grant entre­pre­neurs can suc­ceed in a credit-driven econ­omy. Of all the ingre­di­ents in a suc­cess­ful busi­ness, access to credit is the most fre­quently over­looked. Credit is, quite sim­ply, the engine that builds big busi­nesses out of start-ups, and makes the Amer­i­can dream possible.

• Looking for a loan? Check out Microlenders.

  Microlen­ders are more likely to loan to imm­pre­neurs than banks. Watch this video to find out why.

• Small Loans, Big Opportunities

  Microlen­ders wel­come entre­pre­neur­ial immigrants.

• Small-Business Financing: Success Tips

  Learn from suc­cess­ful fash­ion entre­pre­neur Eddie Wang.

• Your Financing Guide

  How to get loans, attract invest­ment cap­i­tal, and more.

Publicity

Sales

• 12-Step Sales Strategy

  Eddie Wang used smart, aggres­sive sell­ing to build a $12 mil­lion cloth­ing com­pany from scratch. Learn how he did it.

• Cracking Home Depot

  Learn the sales strate­gies used to sell to one of the world’s largest retailers.

• How To Get Your Product Into Whole Foods

  Get­ting your prod­ucts into Whole Foods is a huge coup, but the com­pe­ti­tion is fierce. In the fol­low­ing inter­view, a Whole Foods insider explains how you can do it.

• How to Win Government Contracts

  Step by step plan on how to suc­cess­fully sell to city and state agencies.

• How To Win The Big Sale

  Learn how a tiny immigrant-owned com­pany out­sold Amer­i­can indus­try giants and walked away with the contract.

• In Search of the Perfect Fish Oil

  Nor­we­gian immi­grant Joar Opheim, spots a gap in the mar­ket, uses his immi­grant advan­tage and cre­ates a mega hit in the U.S.

• Maximize Retail Sales

  Steven Wang, Vice Pres­i­dent of Sales & Mar­ket­ing at Ming Wang Knits, explains his sales strategies.

• Open Doors with American Advisors

  These two immi­grant entre­pre­neurs got instant cred­i­bil­ity by using Amer­i­can advi­sors. Find out how they did it.….and how you can too.

• Selling the First Empanada

  Ricardo Rezk explains how to make a sale by just hav­ing a conversation.

• Selling to Whole Foods: Six Steps to Success

  Get­ting your prod­uct into national chains is never easy, but the rewards are big if you are per­sis­tent. The fol­low­ing steps will put you on the road to success.