In association with Lee Janecek.

Lee Janecek's Bio

Lee Janecek works as an international financial consultant. She has been advising wealthy clients for 23 years. Among her clients, there are celebrities, European royalty, corporate CEOS, and wealthy jet-setters. Customers' names cannot be disclosed due to confidentiality agreements. Just last year, she consulted with a $400,000,000 corporation.

Born in Europe and now a U.S. citizen, Lee has enjoyed calling both continents home. Lee has travelled the globe since early childhood and feels quite comfortable with any culture, race, or gender. After college she worked for the U.S. government in Public Relations and International Affairs, and then started her own private international consulting business in 1982. Lee has been a guest speaker on numerous occasions at various universities and corporate gatherings, is an accomplished author, fund-raiser, and in the past has worked with a variety of charities including the Cancer Society, the Heart Association, and many U.S. military veteran programs.

Living and working both abroad and domestically over the past 25 years, with associations with various security houses and banking institutions in Geneva, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Lee worked effectively mastering a concise and necessary understanding for both FSA regulations, Swiss Banking Law and International Trade Regulations. Lee is also an expert in USA banking and financial matters as well as a respected Guru of international business and trade, worldwide tax issues, and multi-country customs information.

What Lee can offer to you

If you want to be a Global Internet Tycoon, you need to know the rules for international cross-border transactions for both physical and digital products. Here are just some of Frequently Asked Questions you may also have:

1. Europeans live on a single continent, have open borders, and trade freely, but not all countries trade in Euros, such as Switzerland. Have you thought about the many different ways to conduct your business in various currencies? Some countries even have internal non-tradable currencies such as the Indian rupee and the Russian ruble. Are your financial capabilities set up to handle foreign transactions and currency conversions?

2. Not all countries are the same. In some countries there may be tariffs or regulations that could inhibit your success. If you are located in the USA, you need to be aware of VAT and how it applies to your business. VAT stands for Value Added Tax. Have you thought about how you would collect and pay VAT? Do you know if you are even legally obligated to charge VAT?

3. To expand your market, you might consider having a multi language version web site. Have you thought about your obligations if a multi-language translator such as when Babel Fish Translator does not interpret your message accurately?

4. How do you provide customer service 24 hours per day and 365 days a year if someone across the world decides to call in the middle of the night? Will you have someone available to answer the call and if so, in what language? How do you manage a multi-international staff? What are your reporting requirements to the tax man for paying a staff located in many different countries?

5. Is your IT Department prepared to deal with foreign information operating systems?

6. Will your local product supply chain support your foreign expansion or will you need alternative sources of product? How would you find a product in a country you have never been to? What are the import and export tax liabilities?

7. Did you know that you must state your shipping time on your web site? Did you know that if you cannot fulfill your shipping time that you must get a customer’s consent or issue a refund? Did you know that if you fail to do so can result in costly international litigation?

How to contact Lee

Lee is available through hourly consultations. She does NOT offer her services elsewhere on the Net, and her decision to support and offer her knowledge and expertise to this Financial Business Corner was taken after John Delavera's personal approach.

You can order an hourly consultation with Lee by clicking here.

Upon the completion of your order you will be notified with 3 possible dates so you can choose the one that fits your schedule better. Consultation can take place through Gtalk, a Messenger or through Skype.

This section can be deactivated anytime, since Lee cannot guarantee that she will always be available here in the future due to her heavy off-line schedule.