BLAKEWAY WORLDWIDE PANORAMAS

Blakeway Worldwide Panoramas has the largest selection of panorama city art prints of city skylines and major attractions from the world.

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Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm, Central Time Zone

In 1988, I was going through the interview process for sales management positions with several different companies. As I got closer to the point of actually having to say yes or no to several job offers, I started to question whether a company sales position was really what I wanted to do, and whether this type of job was going to make me happy five years down the road. As I thought back over my life to that point, I realized my most fulfilling experiences were connected to the entrepreneurial ventures I had pursued in college. Several of these that had turned out quite profitably and were extremely fun and rewarding.

I had applied for a tourist visa to Australia several months prior to these interviews and one day my tourist visa came back approved. It was at that moment that I decided it's now or never - if I don't do this now, I most likely won't do it until I retire, so I packed my bags and headed for Australia. I went to Australia to work - to investigate what we had in the U.S. that might be of interest to the Australians, and what they had that might be marketable in the U.S. I joined every young entrepreneurs club and business club I could find and introduced myself to people everywhere I went. I'd go down to the yacht club and ask people if I could go sailing with them for a day. I really hustled, meeting as many people as I could and discussing all sorts of ventures and new ideas.

After about five months, I met a photographer and a designer who had developed an innovative design for a poster using photographs shot from a helicopter. They had produced a panoramic photo of Sydney Harbor that was phenomenal. Neither of these guys knew the first thing about retailing so I proposed helping them take the poster to the marketplace.