factory manufacturing engine-generators in 1955 ran on automatic-pilot.
American Steel Export
Company on the tenth floor at 101 Maiden Lane New York City had an
exclusive on South American
sales---did a hell of a good job and I gave them an extra five percent
discount because I had no
advertisement, no payroll overhead in South America .) Your export
sales generally occur in a lot
less competitive climate than your sales in the United States---I did
have to educate my clueless
banker how to handle export documentation and getting paid by their
affiliate foreign bank---once
the stupid SOB paid my supplier in Taiwan without confirmed loading
documents, while the load was
still sitting on the wharf, having been bumped by someone bribing port
officials to load their
cargo ahead of mine. I learned all about export documentation from
Citybank---still have the huge
and explicit instruction manual around somewhere.)
http://www.sba.gov/ga/ Georgia is a good place for "halfback" refugees
from Florida to start a
business---and may have the best upper-education guarantee in the nation
for yourhigh-achievement
high school kids. Just stay away from Atlanta---head for a small town
with good road access and