Offer Your Customers the World Even a corner store can have a global perspective. Our tiny world has gotten smaller: We've pulled this episode forward because too many in the USA are limiting their international travel. And, it is the right time for us small business owners to do just the opposite. This episode might help. San Diego: For some one-on-one inspiration, visit the Le Travel Store with Joan & Bill Keller. Soon you'll be taking trip around the world! Even if you are the corner convenience store, you can announce to your customers, "We are going global." Yet, you'll quickly discover, you already have. Look at all the labels on all your products. Manufacturered where? In China? If so, plan a trip to China to the manufacturer for all those who buy that product! Get your friends at the local travel agency to help you organize it. Your life will never be the same. Everybody will see you differently and you will truly begin to know your suppliers. No dogmatic slumber: Paradigms are changing. Where the Internet connected us in realtime to most every corner of our world, the foundations are being poured to go there as well. We're on this earth for a short time, so let us make a difference and be thoughtful. more... » On navigating this website » By Diversity, Families, and Women » Exit strategy and liquidity models » Our first principles, mission & vision

Examine Your Goals And , Let's Get to Work 1. Do What You Love 2. Start Small 3. Hire People Who Sparkle 4. Deliver Insight To Customers 5. Reinvent Yourself 6. Buy A Building 7. Invest In Your Neighborhood 8. Stick With Core Products 9. Stick With Core Customers 10. Respect Your Partner's Talent 11. Prepare For Unknown Unknowns 12. Deploy A Customer Retention Plan You've got the whole world Traveling at the speed of satellites: If Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, and Paul Allen have their way, we could be flying as fast as 18,000 miles per hour to wherever we want to go on earth. There are at least a dozen other independent efforts underway. Just think, at just 80 miles above the earth, you are weightless and your traveling at the speed of a satellite! You can be on the other side of the planet in what will seem to be an altogether too short a period of a time. more... Our common future » Become a Producer Club member » $400M Goal for Local Stations » $9B: Help Keep your Business Alive » Collaborate! » Sign Up, Get Listed, then Invited ... »– The next episode

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