I have received special Permission from the author of a survival guide available from the Secret Information site to reprint excerpts for the Michigan Survival Guide. This section deals with keeping the Job you HAVE already. (also good rules to follow that would actually ELIMINATE the need to pay...
A few weeks ago I was alarmed that our local (Traverse City Area) chamber held an event in which they were going to teach small business owners how to “deal with” the changes in law the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and how to move forward. The problem I...
Having become somewhat comfortable with wordpress, it was easy to make the decision to move one of my business informational sites to a blog platform and away from my 1997 style, cheesy pagemill generated format. As is usual with setting up a new format, there are many considerations to...
The business I and my wife own is an employer of others. Often I reflect on the 60+ hours a week I am physically at the warehouse, and the rest of the waking hours spent at least mentally there. I thought I would share my thoughts with you, but...
Fortunately, Michigan has not yet seen passage of the smoking bans presented and approved by the House nor the Senate. The debate as to WHY these bills did not see the governor’s pen can go elsewhere for now. The pressure will most certainly result with the passage of SOME...
Several years ago a law firm specializing in workers compensation was told by General Motors that it had to shave their hourly rate to roughly $30, or risk losing GM’s business. The irony was that to keep the large seemingly “lucrative” account, the firm needed to bill an hourly...
In Michigan, we are fast becoming aware of what happens when the left pushes an agenda such as forced “green” standards. We lose jobs. Any of the big three automakers are evidence. And as fast as the words “bio tech” erupt from our “away blower in chief” Jennifer Granholm,...
Dick Devos this morning during a phone segment on the Ron Jolly show, Pointed out that Michigan economic woes are NOT the result of the federal government, but rather because of an anti business climate created by governor Granholm. he said “Michigan Missed the economic expansion because of Granholm...
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