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Astronaut: "Hello is this the Portal Market?"
Portal Market: "Yes it is...where are you calling from ?"
Astronaut: We are calling from the Space Station Alpha, and we do not have any tea to drink. Do you have any teas you could send up on the next shuttle?"
Portal Market: Absolutly...I will have my finest selections sent down to Cape Kennedy immediately."
Astronaut: Roger Portal Market, we enjoyed your web site and we will be ordering more things once we settle in."
Portal Market: "Thanks...you made my day."
When the Portal Market began in 1993 in Middletown, California, in an abandoned gas station on the corner of Route 175 and Calistoga Road it was inconceivable it would become a global e-commerce business web site. But as the 21st Century officially begins in a few more weeks the Portal Market has grown from 8 products to over 600 products representing over 20 countries with life enhancing benefits for people everywhere.
The original Tea Room that was inside the Portal Market of 1993 has grown into the, Portal Tea Company, which now imports tea directly from China, Thailand and Malaysia, and exports worldwide. Exquisite crafts from indigenous people world wide are now being offered through the Portal Market as well as through the Thailand Hemp and Silk Company; another outlet developed by the Portal Market. Many people from around the world, with their own creations and ideas, are choosing to be represented on the Portal Market because of the many fine products being offered.
All products and services support one another in as much as they all offer something special to enrich peoples lives. Doing business over the internet with e-commerce has proven to be a unique form of completing customer transactions from countries all over the planet. Globalization means access to other people on the planet who have never even heard of a water filter, and likewise allows the Portal Market to learn of new food supplements such as the Moringa Tree from Africa or a Balafon from Ghana.Many business trips were made to China, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore in the quest for the finest handicrafts. It was out of these trips that the Portal Tea Company and the Thailand Hemp and Silk Company wre born.
Supporting the daily business operation of the Portal Market of today is Jagat Rainbow. An unusual name and an even more amazing woman with extraordinary talents. Jagat is an accomplished fashion designer, a business woman, and has developed her own multi-media e-commerce web site called, Quest Manifest. Jagat's experience in store management for over 10 years as well as in e-commerce gives to the Portal Market a very strong supportive infrastructure in financial management that is necessary for successful e-commerce implementation.
As the world becomes more integrated with on-line business transactions in both business to business and business to consumer the Portal Market is developing on-going relationships with its customers, as well as business to business portals world-wide.
The 21st Century officially begins January 1, 2001, and now after 8 years the Portal Market is poised to offer the finest products from around the world to bring more life enhancing benefits to its customers. It has been the customers that have made the Portal Market what it is today which is an on-line e-commerce business that caters to the well being of a persons mind, body, and spiritual development. Many lasting relationships have been made, and many more will be made as every effort is given to providing a personal and helpful experience when buying products over the internet from the Portal Market.
A new S.E. Asian office has been opened in Bangkok, Thailand so the creative talents in that part of the world can be offered to the the Portal Market customers.
In June of 2001 the Portal Market opened its own showroom in the small town of Fairfax, California. Now it is possible for people to come vist and see a few of the fine products that are on display. Most recently hand casted bronze Buddha's from the Trisaranakom Foundry in Bangkok are now being exhibited.
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Perhaps one day, as the caption indicated in the beginning, the Portal Market will provide a business portal for goods and services into outer space so that the extension of humankind into the vast reaches of our solar system will always be able to enjoy the rich and varied products developed on the home planet Earth, as well, perhaps, from other locations within our local galaxy..ie, the Galactic Portal Market.
The Alpha Space Station is leading the way to fullfill the dreams of traveling to the stars. Perhaps it is only a dream to provide the same services we enjoy here on Earth as we would in outer space, but then, if it were not for our dreams how could we ever reach out to manifest our full potential as human beings. After all a good cup of tea can be equally enjoyed looking at Earth rises on the moon.
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