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Small Business in America: 10 Years after 9/11Susan L ReidWhere were you when American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City?What were you doing when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon? Or when, after heroic passengers stopped the hijackers from reaching their intended target in Washington, D.C., United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, PA? If you’re like most of us, ten years later you can instantly recall where you were and what you were doing that September morning. To say that we were caught by surprise would be a gross understatement. The attacks on 9/11 shattered, finally and forever, our illusion that America was invincible. A Decade after 9/11: Small Businesses Re-shaping AmericaEven as September 11, 2001, changed each of us individually, it also changed the face of small business owners and the way we operate in America. Since 9/11, entrepreneurship in the U.S. has taken turns not even the most prophetic of entrepreneurs could have imagined. Consider all that has happened: With the rubble of the Twin Towers not yet cleared, our country went to war, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq. We experienced a "slow down" in the economy with one president and entered as great a recession as any of us have experienced with another. We shuddered as the financial walls of Wall Street crumbled, the big three automakers went on the ropes, and tens of thousands of Americans lost their jobs and homes. Yet, through it all, America's businessmen and businesswomen persevered. Now, ten years post-9/11, they have demonstrated once again that small businesses are the backbone of American innovation, adaptation, and survival. Here are three ways American small business are re-shaping America:
That's because the small independent hardware stores figured out how to make service pay even if the customer has to pay a higher price. And now, instead of competing with each other, they are co-existing. What has small business learned ten years after 9/11? That being a small business owner doesn't mean you're small—it means you have the ways and the means to be flexible. That small businesses can more easily adapt to quickly changing environments than big box stores. And, what’s more, that, in the marketplace, it is the consumer who decides where he or she will shop. Even now, ten years after 9/11, looking for ways we can continue to innovate and adapt is the most any of us in America's entrepreneurial community can aspire to—while keeping in mind how lucky we are to have the freedom to own, operate, and run our own businesses. Copyright © 2011 by Susan L. Reid WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this blurb with it: Copyright ©2011 by Susan L. Reid, DMA Dr. Susan L. Reid is a Small Business Expert and Business Catalyst for spiritually conscious women starting up businesses. She is the award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success. If you're interested in finding out more about what steps you can take to ensure your lasting business success, then get instant access to your own free copy of Turn Your Business Dreams Into Reality Toolkit at http://YourSamuraiBusiness.com.
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