Why It’s Important for Mompreneurs to Know About Other Cultures

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Why It's Important for Mompreneurs to Know About Other Cultures-Chispa MagazineRunning your own business, and being a mom is never simple. It will take up a lot of your time, and it’s going to be a lot of hard work. You need to work toward making your business a success and the way to do this is to grow into a global brand. If you want to do this in the best possible way you need to know about other cultures. Here are some ways in which learning about foreign cultures will help you as a mompreneur. Ready?

Sales Trends
When you’re trying to run your own business, you need to focus on sales. And the only way you can do this is by knowing what sells in the first place. If you want to break into other countries and foreign markets you’ll need to study the culture and find out sales trends. This will give you knowledge of how to position your business for success. If you can keep up to date and relevant you should enjoy success across continents.

Pick Up Knowledge
The best reason to get to know other cultures is the knowledge you pick up. Africa is one of the largest continents in the world, so this would be a good place to start. Try to learn what you can about business in Africa, and how their culture can impact it. There’s an interesting website that will help you with this. Once you pick up the knowledge you’ll be able to figure out how to use it to your advantage. Understanding foreign cultures means understanding what people might like, need or want. And, isn’t this the cornerstone of business, supply and demand?

Meet Like-Minded People
Being a working mom is never easy. In fact, it can be a stressful and overwhelming experience. So, as a result, it’s nice to meet like-minded moms. And, a great way to achieve this is to learn about other cultures. Anywhere in the world there could be another mom who’s doing what you’re doing; you need to seek these people out. Try to befriend them and you can offer support and advice to each other. This is also a useful way of increasing your profile and popularity in another country.

Develop a Strong Presence
The key to running your own business is to make people aware of you. And, by gaining knowledge of other cultures you will understand how they work. This will help you to develop interest in your brand within other countries and cultures; thus it’s vital for helping you to become successful. You have to figure out your place in the market, and how you can gain more market share for yourself. This isn’t quite as easy as you might have thought though.

As a mompreneur, you need to realize you have a whole world to explore and expand to. You need to take your small business and turn it into a worldwide one. And, in order to do this, you need to have an understanding and knowledge of other cultures, countries and continents. This will help you to develop and grow as a mompreneur.

Photo by Benjamin Child

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Mavian Arocha-Rowe

Mavian Arocha-Rowe

Editor-in-Chief at Chispa Magazine
Mavian Arocha-Rowe is known as an asset to the business and communications industry and is motivating and advocating “your authenticity should be your strategy,” for all women, regardless of their season and roles. For the past 20 years she has directed magazines, plus multiple art and marketing departments as creative director and brand manager. What supersedes all of her great career moves is her role as wife and mother living in Atlanta. Challenging herself to discover and bravely pursue the calling for her life, Arocha-Rowe helps other women discover and pursue their life’s assignment. She is a passionate, and loud-laughing speaker on the topic of purposefully redeemed, and mentors young women so they can exercise a mind that is doctrinally pure, along with a heart that beats toward sanctification. She will almost never turn down Marlow’s Tavern double-tavern cheeseburger, a cooking-demonstration from Leaning Ladder, or any opportunity to head to Miami to spend time with family.
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Mavian Arocha-Rowe is known as an asset to the business and communications industry and is motivating and advocating “your authenticity should be your strategy,” for all women, regardless of their season and roles. For the past 20 years she has directed magazines, plus multiple art and marketing departments as creative director and brand manager. What supersedes all of her great career moves is her role as wife and mother living in Atlanta. Challenging herself to discover and bravely pursue the calling for her life, Arocha-Rowe helps other women discover and pursue their life’s assignment. She is a passionate, and loud-laughing speaker on the topic of purposefully redeemed, and mentors young women so they can exercise a mind that is doctrinally pure, along with a heart that beats toward sanctification. She will almost never turn down Marlow’s Tavern double-tavern cheeseburger, a cooking-demonstration from Leaning Ladder, or any opportunity to head to Miami to spend time with family.