Today in Global Small Business: Rise of the Rest Road Trip

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

• President Obama's Export Council in June discussed letters of recommendations to be delivered and adopted soon.
• Discover four ways to achieve new growth in developing countries.
• The reasons to go global and why so many small businesses are choosing to do so.
• Is something getting lost in the Hello Kitty translation?
• Why Yahoo is going back to the drawing board on its e-commerce strategy.
• The Rise of the Rest Road Trip with AOL founder and investor Steve Case.