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Buying Michigan is very important at this time. Two great websites, MichiganMall.com and BuyMichigan.com provide information about businesses, products, and services based in Michigan that sell in Michigan. Our support helps the economy grow as Michigan's GDP grows.

We also need to think "Sell Michigan". The world has many wants and needs that could easily be provided by Michiganders. Here is a small sampling of the Michigan MBC Global is working to sell:

1. Boats. We have identified a need by a foreign government to buy more than 30 boats, including speed boats and surveillance boats. It is a seed order for future business and MBC Global, a Michigan based company will assist in filling the order. We would love the boats to be made in Michigan, but if not possible, let us coordinate the sale using a Michigan distributor. Our only problem is we need a referral of a business that is willing to sell boats for foreign delivery (Fair trade agreement is in place). Do you have a recommendation?
2. Teachers. We have been contacted by a college in Africa that is creating an American zone where their students will learn the American culture. We are not talking about removing talented Michigan teachers on a permanent basis as these are commitments for a semester or year. These teachers will be representatives for the state from which they come, building relationships that will result in commerce for their state. Wouldn't it be great to have these educators become ambassadors for Michigan? When they return they will be better teachers because they will have global experience to share with our students at a time when the world's economy is becoming global!
3. Baseball equipement. I posted this before only to get comments about why, if used baseball equipment is available, it shouldn't be used here in inner Detroit. Although we do not despite a local need, the way business is done in some other cultures is that a relationship must happen first. If we can get the baseball equipment that has been requested and deliver it to the inner city in the foreign country where it has been requested, we will establish ourselves as a caring society that is more interested in people than their dollars. If Michigan is the state to establish this credibility, the person doing the requesting has the power and finances for major orders of basketball and baseball equipment. Is there a business in Michigan that would like to fill those orders? All they are asking for to show our good nature is used equipment.

This has been a lengthy message and hopefully one or two will get this far along in it. If so I hope you see how the global economy will greatly enrich our state finncially and experientially if we all work to "Sell Michigan"!

Contact me with any referrals that may assist in these endeavors. I will make sure that as a Michigan company we present the Michigan offers first. Florida and Virginia have already stepped up on items 1 and 2, so let me know as quickly as possible.

Thanks, Rick

MBC Global (www.mbcglobal.org)