Todays Intelligence

If I open a baseball card store I will be the place to go in my neighborhood, and maybe in this side of town. But I doubt people will be driving hundreds of miles to get their Derek Jeter rookie card from me. But if I put that same business online then I’m available to anyone with a good Internet connection – and credit card online processing. And I think about things like this because I keep reading things like over 200 million people in Asia alone will get their first major credit card in the next five years and I have to think a few of them might like baseball.

Ever swap e-mails with someone in another country? Heck, maybe you even IM a friend thousands of miles away. The point is that the Internet has made communicating around the globe something that can be done in seconds. So when I read that more people around the world in the next five years will have credit cards and that they are embracing online shopping, this says to me that my online business as a shot at business from anywhere in the world as long as I have reliable credit card processing.