I'm in Canada, and a fair number of my clients are in the US, but I still tend to forget about the actual geographic locales of our businesses.
To me, it's all one great big seamless internet world...until someone says, "Karen, you have such an accent." I get such a kick out of that! It reminds me that the "globality" of the internet has blurred my perception of actual time and space to some degree.
The other day, I was booking a phone meeting for a person in Hong Kong with one of my clients in New York (a 12-hour time difference). With a two-hour window of opportunity, when one of them wouldn't just be waking up and one of them going to bed, it was a challenge - a challenge largely presented because of the internet. They would likely have never done business with each other if it weren't for the internet.
How has the internet changed the way you do business across the globe?
Karen
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