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You Can Profit From The CBTPA
Create Lucrative Businesses Using the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) to Build Wealth!
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50+ WAYS TO PROFIT FROM THE CARIBBEAN BASIN INITIATIVE (CBTPA)
Let’s take a look at the 50+ ways you can profit from the CBTPA:
1. Start your own export business
Especially in the Western Hemisphere, this is best time in history to develop your own export business. Only about 10% of US businesses that could export do export. With the CBTPA already in place and the passage of passage of the CBTPA, there is no limit to how much you can earn in your own export business. For a complete turnkey method of Export Communication, you will need an Export Communication Kit. Semantic Translation Can Help You Sell To The USA. Discover the power of semantic translation so Americans want to read your internet communications, letters and web pages.
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2. Get a job in world trade and learn the ins and outs of the export/import business.
Learn how to develop your own successful export/import business and get paid at the same time. Go to work for a firm already in the business and learn the methods, techniques and terminology.
3. Develop methods and systems to create relationships with potential trading partners.
Internationals do business with their FRIENDS.
Learn to speak Spanish and English; start making friends in North and Latin America; and begin developing cross cultural skills. Your return on investment will be high.
4. Find out all you can about the CBTPA so you are knowledgeable.
To profit from the CBTPA, you need to know its history and how it has developed. You also need to know about the different CBTPA countries so you can choose which one meets your interest and your temperament. The more you know, the better your chance of success.
5. Add African countries to your business strategies and develop a multinational corporation.
The United States is the leading trading partner with most of the countries of Africa. This export trade is expected to grow rapidly in the future. Under the Trade and Development Act of 2000, the CBTPA was developed. A second part of this Act was the creation of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000 (AGOA), a special program for Africa, so an expanded number of products from African countries enter into the US duty free. Get involved with Africans through the RED de AfroHeritage Footballers. Find out how to tap into these growing markets.
6. Develop a seminar you can use to market your CBTPA products and services.
Free and for fee seminars are an excellent way to market both your CBTPA products and services.
7. Start your own customer newsletter to market your CBTPA business.
A customer newsletter is an excellent way to bond and link with prospects, customers and clients. Make sure it makes your customers feel you are knowledgeable, but most importantly, that you care about them.
8. Develop the expertise to succeed in your export/import, tourism and Leucaena Effect Agroforestry business by reading books, talking to people and taking courses.
To succeed in this business, you need to know how it works. It is vital you understand how to use Letters of Credit and bank drafts. Misunderstand the terms of the trade such as FOB, CIF, etc. and you could lose everything. You must learn and keep on learning to succeed.
9. Develop a low cost handicraft importing business.
You can develop a lucrative handicraft importing business with very low capital. It could be a low cost way to generate capital for other CBTPA businesses.
10. Add the Pacific Rim countries to your CBTPA business strategy.
Many of the countries of the CBTPA front on the Pacific Rim. Countries in Asia produce machinery needed in Latin America. Latin American firms produce raw materials and primary production products needed in Asia. Join these together and you have a winning business strategy.
11. Obtain international investors and start a lucrative tropical food exporting business.
Exporting tropical foodstuffs is a rapidly growing business as more and more immigrants come to the USA from tropical countries. Cash in on this with your own tropical food exporting business.
12. Advertise your business in producer and buyer directories.
One of the best ways to make international contacts is to advertise in international business and investment directories. The largest your ad, the more recognition and the more likely international buyers, sellers, investors and joint venture partners will contact you. This is a necessity for creating a successful CBTPA business.
13. Subscribe to and advertise in international trade magazines and newsletters.
Advertising in international trade magazines and newsletters is a key component of marketing your CBTPA business. You need to start a consistent, long running ad program in the publications that focus on reaching CBTPA buyers, sellers and investors. Run your ads over and over so internationals come to feel they know you and your firm. Then they will believe you are in a serious long term business and they can depend on you.
14. Form marketing joint ventures.
Sometimes it is better to work with a partner and not try to go it alone especially in a new and unknown market.
15. Invest in street food production.
One of the fastest growing, low cost entry businesses in CBTPA countries is the production of street foods. Start your own street foods business by investing in small producers in the country of your choice. YOU could reap a windfall.
16. Invest in food processing projects.
Food processing, whether small scale or high-tech, gives an excellent return on investment. This is a field that will be growing faster in Latin America than in any part of the world. Get your share.
17. Develop tropical food field crop projects.
Tropical food field production yields could be improved tremendously with simple, ecologically sound methods of field cultivation, pest management and fertilization. Here is your chance to prosper and produce high value food products for export of winter vegetables, etc.
18. Produce tropical fruit purees, concentrates and juices for the US market.
Tropical fruit juices, concentrates and purees will be a 20 billion dollar a year business by the year 2000. Can you afford not to get into this lucrative business in a CBTPA country?
19. Invest in specialty food processing and marketing.
The market for specialty foods such as jams, jellies, pickles and preserves is growing by leaps and bounds. Start your business today and cash in on this trend.
20. Locate a good source of trade leads.
A continuing source of good trade contacts and leads is the key to success in your international business. Set up a lead generating system as soon as you begin your business.
21. Set up a defined marketing calendar and use it.
Marketing is something you need to be doing every day. Set up a marketing calendar for yourself so you have a prospect or customer contact every day of the year.
22. Create your own business plan.
To succeed in the CBTPA, you need to have a road map, a track to run on. A written business plan is the key to keeping you going in the right direction. Create one today and follow it to your bright future.
23. Develop an export marketing plan.
There are so many possible buyers for your CBTPA business products and services, that you must target in on who you will be marketing to. Otherwise you will scatter your resources and may not succeed in your business because you are trying to go too many directions at one time. Create and follow an export marketing plan so you know who you want to sell to and how.
24. Set up your own export database.
An export database is vital to your success in your CBTPA business. You need to know who to contact for products and services at the time that you need them. You need to be able to network with potential trading partners so you need to know as much about them as possible. This information needs to be stored in a database, preferably kept on a personal computer.
25. Use embassies and consulates for profit.
Foreign embassies and consulates are gold mines for information on finding customers and suppliers in CBTPA countries. Establish a working relationship with them as soon as possible.
26. Use US government programs.
Because the CBTPA is a US government program and is strongly supported by many government agencies, there is a great deal of assistance available to you. Find out about these resources and use them wisely. An important partners is the US embassy in each CBTPA country.
27. Develop a green business.
Green businesses are in. Combine the development of the concerns about protecting tropical environments in the CBTPA countries with your own green business and watch the money come in.
28. Create a lucrative offshore data entry business.
Offshore data entry is booming and under the CBTPA can be as easy as making a telephone call and sending inputted data through a modem or through your computer. Find out how this high tech business can bring big profits to you with low cost CBTPA country labor.
29. Grow and market Leucaena and other fast growing nitrogen fixing trees.
Leucaena and other fast growing nitrogen fixing trees produce rapidly and offer multiproducts such as firewood, charcoal, livestock feed, fruit, soil reclamation, fertilizer, and other products. Start your own project in a Caribbean Basin country and in few years begin reaping the returns on your investment.
30. Grow and export Pinus caribbea logs and lumber to the USA.
By the end of this decade logging of softwood timber will be largely curtailed in the USA. Start your own short rotation intensive culture plantation of Pinus caribea now to reap tremendous wealth in the future from this tree crop species.
31. Start your own lucrative desktop publishing business.
Desktop publishing is flourishing in the USA. You can use desktop publishing to create a newsletter for marketing to CBTPA countries. You might also go to a CBTPA country and start your own desktop publishing business there, meeting the needs of CBTPA businesspersons. It’s a wide open field.
32. Start your import/export business at home.
The high cost of renting office space as well as long tiresome commutes has led to the creation of millions of home based businesses in the USA. Since most import/export business is done by long distance, no one cares if your office is in your home. And, you can save a lot of money as you build your business.
33. Create the right kinds of CBTPA business marketing documents.
Marketing in export/import is a different than marketing to US buyers. The language is more formal and different kinds of documents are required. You need to create marketing documents expressly developed for export and import and the way internationals like to buy.
34. Develop your own consulting firm.
Since polyeconomic businesses present some of the world’s fastest growing areas for marketing, there is a need for more ad more import/export consultants. Set up your own import/export consulting firm and watch the money roll in.
35. Buy real estate in the CBTPA countries for investment and projects.
The passage of NAFTA as well as the Caribbean Basin Initiative is very likely to push the price of real estate in Caribbean countries up. More and more US and international individuals as well as businesses are developing projects there. Now is the time to act to purchase land in the CBTPA countries before prices rise.
36. Profit from your own outdoor cut flower growing project.
In the high labor cost US market, outdoor cut flowers growing is highly profitable. Imagine how profitable it could be in the year round mild climate in a CBTPA country. You get two or three crop growing seasons in some CBTPA countries. You also get low cost labor and duty free entry. Don’t pass this opportunity by.
37. Grow papaya.
To health food aficionado can live without papaya juice and dried papaya. This is a growth market. In addition more and more fresh papayas are exported to the North American market. An additional flow of income comes from papain, an enzyme used more and more since it is a natural digestive enzyme for tenderizing meat.
38. Invest in Honduras, the opportunity country in Central America.
Honduras is the centrally located, key pivot country of Central America which is the gateway to all of Latin America and the Caribbean. This country could be the Latin American Tiger of the 21st century. Get in on the ground floor of this sleeping giant.
39. Grow black pepper for high profits.
For thousands of years black pepper has created wealth for entrepreneurs and traders. It is still a lucrative low risk profit crop. Set up your own project in a CBTPA country and reap some of this age old wealth
40. Grow and produce products of zero cholesterol guar for the US health food market
Guar is a new industrial crop that could be bigger than Jojoba every promised to be. It produces a zero cholesterol gum that has been found by Stanford University researchers to actually LOWER blood cholesterol. Start your own project now.
41. Develop high profit Caribbean Basin Joint ventures.
Sometimes going it alone doesn't work best. Set it up so you work together with a company that is already in the country, doing the kind of business you want to d. Many times this makes a lot of sense. Let them do all the legwork. You bring your own personal expertise or your company’s special know-how, equipment, capital or methods to make the business work better for both of you, Form strategic alliances, work together and profit.
42. Grow and market cashews for big profits.
It seems that customers can never get enough cashews. Once you have cashew plantation in place, it can produce for 50 years. The nuts sell for high prices. the nut hulls make a high demand chemicals. Use the applies to make high profit, dried fruits for export., wines, brandy or livestock feed. Start your own cashew plantation and create your own security blanket for later years.
43. Produce charcoal or fuel briquettes for export.
Mesquite (Prosopis) charcoals sell for high prices for US barbeques. In many CBTPA countries, mesquite is considered a noxious weed that farmers keep trying without success to eradicate. Why not set up a charcoal briquetting plant to produce charcoal and export to the USA and Europe? Or, produce energy briquettes from Leucaena to sell in the CBTPA country for fuelwood.
44. Develop your own ecotourism resort.
Tourism is scheduled to be the biggest export market in the world by the year 2000. And, ecotourism is one of the most rapidly growing areas. Ecotourists do not like large scale developments. They want natural, small, low key settings. That is why you can set up ecotourism projects so inexpensively.
45. Market your CBTPA business using self expression focused advertising mediums.
Marketing your CBTPA business is the key to your success. One of the best ways is to use self expression focused marketing tools such as buttons, T-shirts, calendars, directories, ads in books, banners, posters, magnets, etc. These are all advertising mediums that the customer or prospect keeps because he or she uses them. So your marketing and advertising keep on being seen.
46. Grow high value Eucalyptus trees for export.
Eucalyptus grows fast and are fast becoming a wealth builder. There are many projects in Australia and Brazil,. Caribbean Basin countries have much dry, low value land that be turned into profitable eucalyptus forests.
A five hectare (11 acre) Eucalyptus grove can be worth $170,000 after six or seven years, with a net after harvesting of about $135,000. You can purchase low cost land in a country like Honduras, have a local or international forestry firm plant the trees for you, care for them on a contract basis and after the six or seven years are up, cash out of your project. Or, replant and keep on profiting.
47. Set up an electronic assembly plant.
Electronic assembly is another high profit way to cash in on the CBTPA. Many countries even provide special incentives in the form of export processing zones, tax incentives and industrial parks to help you set up businesses there.
Asian and European companies can establish plants in CBTPA countries and then be eligible to export their transformed products to the US duty free.
48. Set up an apparel assembly and contract manufacturing firm.
Many countries are manufacturing clothing in CBTPA countries even though exporting to the USA may or may not be duty free.
The closeness of the CBTPA countries to the US market, their experienced workers and quality of work has made apparel production an attractive business. International firms may find this an excellent way to penetrate the US marketplace. The cost of starting this business is low and some governments will even pay for training workers and offer low cost rental of production sites.
49. Develop a lucrative sports adventure tourism business
There are many wild, undeveloped sites that can be turned into lucrative sports adventure tourism businesses. The Caribbean Basin is full of untouched ocean beaches, mountains that have never been climbed, rain forest that has never been birded and wild waters that have never been rafted. And these countries are seeking entrepreneurs like you to come in develop these lucrative tourism markets.
50. Develop a profitable international soccer camp.
Soccer is the fastest growing youth sport in America. Yet many of our soccer athletes are stuck at a level of skills that is not improving as rapidly as they are capable of. There is a need for them to play against those who have been playing all their lives in the soccer cultures of the Caribbean Basin to hone their skills. You can develop the soccer camps that give them that extra boost of skills to take them to the next level.
51. Get involved with The Athletico Lenca Soccer Team
Atletico Lenca is a young soccer team, with its goal of going to the Intercontinental Cup. This is a long term fifteen year plan that involves an orderly progression up to the Liga Nacional de Honduras. The milestone of becoming a professional soccer team in the Liga Nacional de Honduras will be the first major goal. It will then be one of the teams from which the national team of Honduras is selected.
52. Kick Your Way Into The Caribbean Basin Through Soccer
All the Caribbean Basin countries are focused on soccer and the soccer culture. Life revolves around the games, the Copa Liberatadores, the Copa de Oro, the Copa Sudamericana and other tournaments. But everyone places the game and that offers many opportunities to support the game and build firm relationships with the people of the region. A wide open opportunity is the development of youth sports. The Honduras Youth Soccer Project is seeking to develop soccer leagues and teams throughout Honduras. Support these young teams and their parents will be your customers for life.,
53. Join (MOTILES) To Develop Your Caribbean Basin Business.
MOTILES is deeply involved in the sustainable development of the Caribbean Basin. By joining with MOTILES, you have many entry points into the region. Some of the tools we offers include
MOTILES's International Soccer Master Activities in Honduras
54) Put Together A Rural Agroindustrial Center (RAIC)
A Rural Agroindustrial Center can use Leucaena as its feedstock or basic raw materials. There are many RAIC products that can be produced in a RAIC from fuel briquettes, to livestock feed, to building materials. Find out how to create your own high profit RAIC. You can profit as a supplier of RAIC equipment, a buyer of RAIC products, an entrepreneur who organizes a RAIC and a RAIC investor.
These 50+ profit ideas for CBTPA business projects development and marketing, are just the beginning of the ways the CBI can mean wealth to you. Any individual, any firm, whether in a CBI country, in the USA, in Asia, in Europe or the Middle East can find a way to profit from the CBI . It’s a matter of doing it.
55. Develop a Kenaf Seed Production Project
The Chinese intend to develop kenaf growing on a large scale in China. The problem is, where are the seeds going to come from? They are seeking 1,000,000 pounds of kenaf seeds for just one project. The Kenaf Growers Task Force is coordinating the growing of kenaf seeds here in Central America but growers are needed everywhere. can you qualify? Want to profit from the lucrative Chinese market? Become a member of the Kenaf Growers Task Force. Grow seeds as a Certified Kenaf Seed Producer.
Contact Dr. Carol Cross At exportfacs@aol.com
