Today in Global Small Business: Liking Your Secondhand Threads

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

• When it comes to running a global business, "never give up hope."
• Jim Blasingame reconciles his 2019 predictions because up until now, he is batting .733.
• Quote of the week: “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series
• Big technology companies faced another congressional inquiry on Thursday, as the House Small Business Committee questioned executives from Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google about whether their market dominance unfairly hinders upstart companies.
• Three social media strategies for the remainder of 2019.
• What happens when you mix eBay and Instagram, then add millions of fashionistas eager to shop each others’ closets? You get Poshmark, the social-commerce platform founded by entrepreneur Manish Chandra and he wants you to Like your secondhand threads.