Today in Global Small Business: Facebook's Vision 2030

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

• Global shipping trends for 2020.
• The coolest artificial intelligence announcements from CES 2020. 
• Quote of the week: “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed.  Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy." – Tony Robbins
• Unveiling a vision for 2030 – Facebook, and there's no focus on Libra.
• Next frontier?  Drones.
• The chief legal officer of Google parent Alphabet Inc., David Drummond, is leaving the company amid an investigation into his relationships with employees of the global search-engine giant.  New job?  Retirement.

The Pain is Growing for American Small Businesses on Chinese Tariffs

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To grow and succeed, a significant number of small and midsize businesses across America rely on trade with China.

Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO, SBE Council, goes on to say, "the Trump administration’s latest decision to impose 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods along with China’s retaliatory tariffs only serve to pile new costs on small businesses and consumers, and squeeze what market access small businesses currently have."

Find out why the United States needs to adopt more effective alternatives to the use of tariffs.