EXPAND YOUR SHOP? SURE. EVEN BETTER - TAKE THE HILL BY PLOTTING A FUTURE COURSE, EXPANDING YOUR DIGITAL PRINTING AND GROWING YOUR PROFITS. BY DAREK JOHNSON EDITOR-AT-LARGE HE June issue of Forbes magazine featured an article titled "America: A Growth Industry" that included charts showing that Fortune 500 companies' revenues had grown faster than the US gross domestic product. The text said, "The breakneck growth T 34 SIGNS OF THE TIMES NOVEMBER 2017 of tech companies such as Apple and Amazon.com helps explain the acceleration. So does globalization: America's largest companies were simply better positioned than momand-pops to expand their businesses abroad." "Mom-and-pop?" I looked it up. Businessdictionary.com cheerlessly said a mom-and-pop is "a small, independent, usually family-owned, controlled and operated business that has a minimum amount of employees, has only a small amount of business volume, and is typically not franchised, therefore open for business only in a single location." Investopedia.com said Internet sales have caused a swell in mom-and-pop businesses because they don't incur the brickand-mortar overhead costs. Many sign companies are mom-and-pophttp://www.Amazon.com http://www.Investopedia.com http://www.Businessdictionary.com