Doing Europe
She went, she saw, she came home with entrepreneurial success.
Five years ago, a friend asked Karen Hamilton for a favor, and that request snowballed into a business. Hamilton and her husband, Gary, own The Hamilton Group Ltd., a Whitefish, Montana, firm that sells truck parts to private companies abroad. This past May, she and Gary went to the Netherlands, France and Germany with a Women In Trade Business Development Mission. We asked Karen to walk us through her experience.
Evaluating
Possibilities
"I got literature on the mission and had to determine if [it]
was the best avenue to get new business," says Karen. "I
had to analyze the required money and how long it would take to
make it back."
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