About

— Tom Runsten

I sell across borders for a living. I've been doing it since the late 2010s. I started out cold-emailing distributors out of a spare room in Gothenburg, and somewhere along the way I figured out that almost everything I'd been taught about export sales was either obsolete, oversold, or both.

This site is where I write down what I've actually learned. Not opinion pieces. Working notes from someone who closes business with foreign buyers and keeps the receipts.

I am not selling a course. I am not running a newsletter. I am not building a personal brand. I just kept getting asked the same questions by people newer to this work than I am, and writing them down here saved me the time of answering each one.

If you found this site through a search, it probably means you were looking for an answer that doesn't show up cleanly in the usual places. Welcome. The posts page has everything.

— T.