Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurs’

Today I am launching my new web site under the new company name of Greve Consulting, formerly known as Metreks.  The focus of my practice is to help companies develop their returns management, aka reverse logistics capabilities.  Viewers will find a lot of useful information on returns including the Reverse Logistics Podcast, which will feature industry leaders from the world of reverse logistics, and my blog which is packed with articles and information to help service providers, manufacturers, retailers, and liquidators make more money.

Register to get the blogs sent to your desktop automatically or save www.GreveConsulting.com as a favorite on your browser.  Your comments, questions, suggestions and feedback are encouraged.  I will use your feedback to improve the value delivered from the site.

Check in from time to time to see what is new.  For example, you might want to check out The Cost of Doing Nothing.  This is a form you can fill out to find out how much opportunity you and your company have in developing your reverse logistics capabilities.

Whether you call it returns management or reverse logistics, it’s all about improving returns and maximizing profits.  I hope you enjoy the new site and get a lot of value out of GreveConsulting.com.

In case you didn’t have enough to keep you up at night, I thought I’d recommend reading “Obama’s 2% Illusion” in the Wall Street Journal today. Here is an excerpt:

President Obama has laid out the most ambitious and expensive domestic agenda since LBJ, and now all he has to do is figure out how to pay for it. On Tuesday, he left the impression that we need merely end “tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% of Americans,” and he promised that households earning less than $250,000 won’t see their taxes increased by “one single dime.”……….

Consider the IRS data for 2006, the most recent year that such tax data are available and a good year for the economy and “the wealthiest 2%.” Roughly 3.8 million filers had adjusted gross incomes above $200,000 in 2006. (That’s about 7% of all returns; the data aren’t broken down at the $250,000 point.) These people paid about $522 billion in income taxes, or roughly 62% of all federal individual income receipts. The richest 1% — about 1.65 million filers making above $388,806 — paid some $408 billion, or 39.9% of all income tax revenues, while earning about 22% of all reported U.S. income………..

Mr. Obama is very good at portraying his agenda as nothing more than center-left pragmatism. But pragmatists don’t ignore the data. And the reality is that the only way to pay for Mr. Obama’s ambitions is to reach ever deeper into the pockets of the American middle class.

To read the entire article click here.

Seems you can’t turn the TV on without hearing about layoffs at pretty much every big business except Walmart.  As I write this, I’m listening to the Senate debates on the stimulus package.  Seems the entire debate is around saving big financial institutions that played a big roll in getting us into this mess or grow the size of government.

I do agree that we have to act to save our financial foundation and we do need some money put toward some government programs such as rebuilding our transportation infrastructure, green job development, help with housing foreclosures and the like.  The key, however, to turning the economy around is small business.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal pointed out a fact that many may find surprising. For the past decade, small businesses have created 60% to 80% of net new jobs. Small companies of 500 or fewer people employ more than half of the country’s private-sector workers.

Seems to me that if you want to really stimulate the economy, you have to take steps to help small business and entrepreneurs. What can the US Government do to help small business? I have a few suggestions: Reduce corporate taxes; provide incentives for financial institutions to make loans to small business; and remove the threat posed by the Employee Free Choice Act.

There is something we all can do to help also. Support small business every chance you get. Each one of us have a choice in where we shop and what we buy. When you have a choice, support small business. Small businesses hire local people, pay local taxes, keep cash flowing through the local economy and small business will be the driver behind the big business bailouts that we will be paying for over the next decade.

Don’t just sit back and leave it to Washington.  Pass the word. Do your part. Go SMALL!

What do they agree on?

• We are in a unique time in history
• Leadership is more valuable than ever
• While times may be tough, it is also a time of great opportunity

Alan Weiss has a great post you have to check out. Click Here

Listen to two of the masters, Tom Peters and Seth Godin: