{"id":1455,"date":"2007-03-29T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:48:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:48:44","slug":"how-to-start-small-import-firm-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2007\/03\/how-to-start-small-import-firm-learn.html","title":{"rendered":"How to start a small import firm: learn from others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvatierraimports.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_cuqb5e50RbA\/RgskCtjyVpI\/AAAAAAAAAGs\/TcE7QCcpEks\/s200\/SI_Mermaid_Guitar.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2007\/02\/how-do-you-get-from-idea-to-action.html\">Nairobi Paul&#8217;s business idea<\/a> of importing Kenyan handicrafts to the USA? He (and you) could get started by talking to someone successfully importing from the developing world, like Kristen Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Evans is importing crafts from Bolivia, like the angel pictured to the right. She&#8217;s succeeding in spite of increasing political difficulties and the constant battles of daily life of her suppliers. She&#8217;s also found another business sourcing from Bolivia to cooperate with.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more from the article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectionnewspapers.com\/article.asp?article=79265&#038;paper=60&#038;cat=104\">Arlington Connection<\/a>, or from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvatierraimports.com\/\">Salvatierra Imports<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/05\/tour-of-small-biz-survival_29.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates. <\/a><\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Nairobi Paul&#8217;s business idea of importing Kenyan handicrafts to the USA? He (and you) could get started by talking to someone successfully importing from the developing world, like Kristen Evans. Evans is importing crafts from Bolivia, like the angel pictured to the right. She&#8217;s succeeding in spite of increasing political difficulties and the constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}