I recently went through my customer list just to see who my regular customers have been in 2006. Although I am based in North Carolina, USA I have had few customers in the Tarheel state, with the bulk of my clients coming from New Jersey, California, Texas, Arizona, and Florida.
I also have a decent worldwide reach as I count customers in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Ontario in my portfolio along with clients located in Australia, Germany, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. As long as we can converse in English and they have a Paypal account, I can do business with anyone around the world. Sadly, I am the one lacking even rudimentary world language skills something that I may have to eventually remedy.
Only the internet could bring such a diverse customer base to me. It has been both interesting and even fun dealing with a worldwide audience, something that I fully expect to see expand greatly over the ensuing years.
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USA, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia
Our world is certainly changing fast when you realize that the internet plays such an important part in the way that commerce is conducted. It used to be that Black Friday was one of the most important days on the retailing calendar, but I have learned that the Saturday immediately preceding Christmas is the busiest day for brick and mortar retailers.
Today marks a relatively new phenomenon, something that industry analysts are calling Cyber Monday. Apparently, more than 60 million people will be logging on to their computers and buying stuff, making this day the busiest online retail day of the year. What is interesting about this particular event is that mostly every one of these consumers will be logging on while at work, probably on company time at that.
Although I work for myself, I won’t be shopping online today, but I will be doing so in the very near future. Like so many shoppers I prefer the convenience of the internet instead of dealing with the teeming crowds at my local mall even though I can reach the mall on foot from my home in less than ten minutes. Besides, the best deals can be found online, can’t they?
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General | Matthew C. Keegan, 28 Nov 06 | 
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