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Around the world. when you consider that 95% of the world s consumers live outside the borders of the united states, it really behooves american companies to start thinking about where those buyers are. and we have trained people all around the world whose sole submission to walk the sidewalks and find buyers and customers for u.s. companies. especially medium size and small businesses. i talk to small businesses who are interested in that because they see the potential out there. the customers out there. but don t quite know where to start. where do they go? well, we have commerce offices all around the united states in over 100 cities. they can come to our web site, exportusa, and we can offer programs and services for them. we also have offices in some 80 countries all around the world. and these people s sole job is to find buyers and customers for made-in-usa products and services. are there any particular industries you re focusing on right now? actually, you know, so muc ....
Came across an application for the 2010 ces innovation awards. i got on ces web site, and i started reading, trying to figure out exactly, you know, what you would do at ces, and what it takes to be there. that s when my wife sent me an e-mail and said there s a contest at ces for the most innovative product. she goes, it would be really great if we could ender it that. i did a lot of research and tried to make sure it was a unique idea. and i just kind of had this feeling in my gut that we were going to win. but before they could even think about winning, lori and henry had to go through the rigorous process of applying for the award. and they only had 48 hours to get it done. they wanted a picture of the zomm, everything to enter this contest. so we wound up creating this wood chip that looked similar to a zomm, painted it as best we could, and sent that in as our specimen. we sat in our home for 24 hours ....