P. 10 - LA PLAYA
WWW.PLAYACOMMUNITY.COM
NOVEMBER / NOVIEMBRE 2013
Building Business at the Beaches
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker
It takes a special type of person to
move to a foreign country and
decide to do business. The road
curves uphill. Culture, bureaucracy and language differences
challenge one regularly. Nothing
works the way you think it should
and while you want to hit the road
running, you are just not sure
where 'the road' actually is and
what the pace of the run is - too
fast or too slow and you are out of
the game.
At a recent Networking dinner, put
on for clients of Mail Boxes Etc.
and La Playa, businesses were
surveyed, to get a feel for what the
business community wants.
A few short years ago businesses
had a driving need for more clients
- in order to survive. While the
need for new business is always
at the core of operations, we are
now
seeing
more
stable
businesses look for other things
as well. Many businesses now are
growing up and looking for new
ideas, new alliances, new ways to
expand and break into new
markets.
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