Food Export-Midwest & Food Export-Northeast’s Post

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If you're interested in taking advantage of a trade mission, if you want to utilize these programs, which you should be, the first step is to connect with your liaison. My name is Paul Weiss. I oversee our liaison team and our liaison team are the primary points of contact for the US suppliers. So they're the go to for companies when they have questions or want to get involved in our programs. We have dedicated liaisons that are assigned to each state of the 23 different states we work with. And so you connect with food export, you're going to have a human being standing by helping you kind of figure out what's what's the best foot to put. Forward your liaison, a food export they're really they're your resource. I often think of ours it she's like a traffic cop she knows where everything's supposed to go and and how that's supposed to work. There's so much about this we don't know and there's a lot of hand holding and there's a lot of patience you know there's a lot of explaining and re explaining how these things work Being a liaison is really rewarding to get to work with all kinds of different small businesses and you get to learn more about the companies what kinds of questions do they have what challenges are they facing what. Programs make sense for them. It's important to prioritize and make sure that they're getting involved in the programs that really make the most out of their time. We work with Paul at Food Export and we can we can contact him with any question we have at any time. He's either got an answer for us or he finds out the answer for us. He's been incredible to work with and he makes it makes it very easy for us to export Liaisons can kind of provide that road map for companies and take a little bit of. The some of the guesswork out of out of exporting and, and how does the process work? What's the best first steps? What's the best approach? The first step to getting involved is take the time doesn't take very long, 10 minutes to go on the website and create an online account for their business. By doing that, then they'll have access to our our whole variety of of programs and services via our website. And that's where they can start with the export education programs and then explore some of our other activities and events that. Get them connected with buyers. They are the expert and they are just they're, they're incredibly helpful. We would not be exporting without food export.