What Are We Waiting For?

Have you noticed you’re waiting more?

These days, everyone is waiting for something.  Waiting for home prices to rise, waiting for gas prices to drop, waiting for jobs to appear, waiting for financial security to make a comeback.  The new economy has turned life into a waiting game.

The current business climate can be summed up in one word: inertia.  Clients want information made available to them at lightning speed, and then….we wait…we wait … we wait some more.  After the initial rush, nothing happens.  There’s no sense of urgency to buy the product, put the deal together, make the investment.    So business owners hold back on advertising and expanding and hiring.  We’re all just waiting to see what happens next – with the economy, with the auto industry, with home values, with everything.

Can’t we DO something while we wait?  (more…)

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“Taking Charge of Your Future, the Path to Business Success” (more…)

Small Business Survival: Tie-In products add to your bottom line

By Kevin Mitchell
Statewide Food Equipment

This is the story of how one business owner stepped outside his comfort zone and discovered a golden opportunity he never expected.  That business owner is me.

At Statewide, we specialize in meat and deli weighing and processing applications.  For 19 years, we’ve outfitted many meat rooms and delis for success using our product lines. Along the way, we developed support for our scale systems by offering label stock that our scales use, creating custom stock with our customer logos as well as information needed for discriminating consumers. (more…)