by Gabriela | Dec 3, 2015 | Doing business
(some lessons for exporters and business travellers) I have the privilege of travelling around Latin America on business regularly, and there’s often some time for shopping, particularly since I live in probably Latin America’s most expensive country and the rest of...
by Gabriela | Dec 3, 2015 | Doing business
Anyone working in international trade will know about the importance of details and subtleties when doing business overseas. Understanding not just the statistics about a market, but how real people think, feel and act, is critical to the success in B2C, but also...
by Gabriela | Oct 3, 2015 | Doing business, Trade Shows, Uruguay
Imagine you live in a developing country of just 3.5 million people bordering Argentina and Brazil. Imagine you love fashion, and picture what it’s like to be told, again and again, that you won’t make it, that your market is too small and poor, that fashion only...
by Gabriela | Sep 27, 2015 | Doing business
You know when the World Bank comes up with its “ease of doing business” ranking and you wonder why exactly even the highest ranked countries in Latin America just can’t make it to the top? Well, I have a long list of things to explain why. The sort of stuff we put up...
by Gabriela | Sep 16, 2015 | Chile, Doing business, Uruguay
(and why it matters to you) Anyone researching Latin America will soon realise that across tables, rankings, commentary and analysis, there are three countries that, time after time, seem to be grouped rather close together. Those countries are Uruguay, Chile and...
by Gabriela | Aug 19, 2015 | Doing business
If you’ve been following this blog you’ll know that I always insist that South America is far from homogeneous. However, travelling across the continent as much as I do now, and particularly with the perspective of having lived 13 years away from this continent (in...
