Today in Global Small Business: How to Move Toward Greatness

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Best cell phone plans for small businesses.  
• Quote of the week: “When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.”— Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
• U.S. small business owners feel 'peachy' over the state of the global economy? 
• Are you using social media to empower your small business?
• Global e-commerce trends to launch your business across borders.
• 18 must-have travel apps for traveling abroad.