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Virtual Trade Show Best Practices: 5 Tips To Help You Make Better Connections

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Virtual trade shows are helping exhibitors connect with potential customers at a time when in-person meetings and travel have been reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the lack of true face-to-face interactions, no doubt, creates some challenges. To help you prepare for a virtual trade show, we’re providing a few tips prepared by our colleague Meghan Smith, who works on the Business and Industrial Development Marketing Team and recently participated in an aerospace virtual […]

10 tips that will help you survive a virtual meeting

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Learn More About This Year’s Export Award Winners

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TorsionX tools get a STEP up with international business

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West Virginia Development Office marks 10th anniversary of STEP grant program TorsionX tools are manufactured in West Virginia and increasingly sold around the world. STEP into bigger market potential One component in TorsionX’s marketing toolbox is the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP). The STEP program launched 10 years ago to help small businesses overcome the […]

Export trade mission and STEP grant help dock builder land half-million-dollar project in Nicaragua

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SBA STEP program celebrates 10 years of helping businesses grow export sales  A West Virginia company completed a half-million-dollar project in the picturesque beach town of San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.  Small business makes splash with export The project began when American Muscle Docks and Fabrication (AMD) joined the U.S. Commercial Service Trade Mission […]