Terry Pochert

Public Corporations DON’T Have A Goal to Create Jobs – Large public corporations have an obligation to their shareholders to generate profits. These corporations do this by streamlining all sorts of process including making the workforce as efficient as possible. Congressional members that constantly say that public corporations do otherwise are lying and misleading their constituents. In an article in the Wall Street Journal, William Frezza, a Boston-based venture capitalist and fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is quoted as saying, “Jobs are an input, not an output; they’re a cost of doing business, not a goal of doing business.” (Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2011, Are Companies Responsible for Creating Jobs?)

Get Over It – Size DOESN’T Matter When Creating Jobs – In face, no mature corporation or business regardless of size has a major goal of creating jobs. Once a company has been established and profitable, the major concern of most executives is to make the company as efficient as possible for investors.

New Startups and Young Businesses Create Jobs – According to the government’s National Bureau of Economic Research, “Our findings highlight the important role of business startups and young business in U.S. jog creation. Business startups contribute substantially to both gross and net job creation.” (National Bureau of Economic Research, Who Creates Jobs? Small vs. Large vs. Young by John C. Haltiwnger, Ron S. Jarmin, Javier Miranda, August 2010.)

So How Do We Encourage Startups and Young Business

• Venture and Start-up Capital – Low Interest Loans
• Healthcare and Benefits to encourage new hires for startup companies. Small companies must be able to provide quality employment for its smaller workforce.
• Tax breaks for companies with less than 50 employees who hire new employees
• State Governments offering free or low cost Business Plan management courses and courses to navigate the local, state and federal government paperwork involved in starting a new business.
• Encourage small strip-mall style retail businesses who hire and allow the local community to spend efficiently their hard earned money. This includes local businesses such a hair styling, restaurants, cleaners, clothing and home furnishing. This includes help with rental contracts, merchant account contracts, advertising and promotion within the local city government.

One of our clients, Art Fettig from Growth Unlimited, sent along the following that I wish to share:

Earl Nightingale

I coasted along with no true course set for the first half of my life. I wandered into a job and kept it. I got married and we had a lot of children. I worked and I pretty well suppressed my urges to be truly creative and get on with my life. Then some wonderful things happened. I listened to an Earl Nightingale record titled The Strangest Secret. I mean I really listened to that record. I must have listened to it a hundred times and I read a series of books and my whole life changed. Here it is on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0vRa3KiUEU Check it out. It runs just 10 minutes and 32 seconds and just might get to you.

I started writing and I started meeting interesting people, that is, people who were really achieving things in their lives. I met a professor from Notre Dame and he asked me to write some humor for his speeches. I started listening to hundreds of cassette tapes, in time and I started meeting the folks who made those tapes as I became a professional speaker myself. In time I filled up a whole bookcase with the books I had written and many more shelves with the cassette tapes and the video tapes I have produced. I also filled my bank account and my investment portfolio to provide me with a good still simple life. Most everything I have accomplished was first written down as an idea and then developed into a goal. What have you planned for this coming year? What are your goals for self-improvement? Will your actions help you learn more; grow as an individual; improve you financial situation?

America is still the land of opportunity, the land of plenty, the land where the American Dream is still alive and thriving for those who believe in themselves and in the future of America.

I’m writing this for both of us, for you and for myself. At 82 I still have dreams that are as yet unfulfilled. There are still mountains that I have not climbed that look tempting to me. I hope you have a bountiful New Year filled with fulfilled dreams and with lots more dreams for your life ahead. Keep on growing…Up! Up! Up!

• Art Fettig’s Growth Unlimited

A123's Nanophosphate® Engine Start Battery (12V)

The age of the electric car is here.  What about my old clunker with it’s regular 12v lead acid battery?

Although older cars will probably not be upgraded, some of the newer cars to be released in the next few years may contain A123′s Nanophosphate® Engine Start Battery (12V).

• It’s lighter – Amost 50% lighter
• Longer service life
• Greater energy storage – More start cycles
• Better dash board monitoring of the battery condition
• Yup, it’s more expensive

This same technology is now being used as power cell for cars in the United States and Japan.

Investment Opportunities:

• A123 Systems – NASDAQ: AONE

Yes, energy companies are expanding in the United States. During 2011 Smith Electric Vehicles US has purchased its British based parent company, Smith Electric Vehicles Europe. The US company is now the largest manufacturer and market leader in commercial electric vehicles.

This move also helps several other US based companies including A123 Systems, Inc., the maker of batteries which include their Nanophosphate® lithium ion battery technology. The same technology is used in the General Motor’s Chevrolet Volt.

• Smith Electric Vehicles
• A123 Systems
• Chevrolet Volt

You might be interested in:

• Build Your Own Electric Vehicle – Available from Amazon.com
• Connert Media, Inc.

Michele Backmann’s remarks regarding vaccines could have serious effects...

Michele Backmann’s remarks regarding vaccines could have serious effects that could continue for years.  The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all favor the use of these specific vaccines.

It’s important the Michele Bachmann have her statistics correct.   The HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) is responsible for claims, data and statistics.

• Vaccine Injury Table
• Data & Statistics
• How to File a Claim

It’s amazing to see a presidential candidate that is “in touch with the common middle class American” expanding his beach house from 3,009-square foot house to 11,062-square foot structure.  This according to an article in USA Today.

Just some observations:

• Mitt sure can related to the unemployed middle class, can’t he??
• Truly a man in touch with the average American!
• It’s his money, but why try to lie about the expansion?  Just be honest about his wealth.  It would be nice to have an honest politician even if he is a bit out of touch of the average American.

As a long time resident of Michigan while Sparky Anderson managed the Detroit Tiger’s, I’ll always remember his dedication to the individual team members.  One of our Connert Media clients, Ross Reck, also commented, “Baseball Hall of Famer, Sparky Anderson, who won three World Series Titles managing the Cincinnati Reds and the Detroit Tigers, died recently.  In spite of all his success, he is most remembered as an unpretentious and gracious human being.  He loved and cared about people and treated everyone as an old friend whether they were a celebrity or a janitor.  When people asked him for an autograph, he thanked them rather than vice versa.  He often quoted something his father told him, “”Being nice to people is the only thing in life that will never cost you a dime.  Treat them nice and they will treat you the same.””  Sparky lived that quote and for that reason every one of his former players and colleagues whom I saw interviewed the day after he died cried when the talked about him.  I think that’s the way all of us want to be remembered.”

• Visit Ross Reck’s website

Art Fettig's Winning The Safety Commitment

A wonderful book by a great friend.  This complilation of three of Art Fettig’s most popular business safety books is now available at an amazing price.  Every safety officer in any organization should have this in their library.

Here’s what Art has to say, “A corporate president once paid me two thousand dollars plus travel to fly in and load his speech with sure fire humor.  After visiting with him I sat down and wrote about twenty lines and suggested he learn them.  He sat behind his desk and read each line slowly and then said, “No.” and he would read another and say “No.” And another, “No!”  Finally I stopped him and said to him, “What makes you think you are qualified to judge my material like that. From what I hear, every year you go out and tell a dozen jokes and get absolutely no laughs. That is why you are paying me a kings ransom to be here.  I suggest you spend this valuable time working with me to make sure you get laughs.”  He had been surrounded by “Yes men,” who were afraid to tell him the truth. Well he followed my advice, and he was very pleased with the result and he called me and invited me back to work for him again.  This time I was too busy to travel and so I sent him another load and even a poem for him to use as his close and he was thrilled and called me later saying that this speech turned out better than the first. So what am I saying?  Save yourself a couple of thousand dollars.  Buy my book and you will have enough humor, enough new ideas for meetings and enough sparkle to last you a lifetime”

• Visit Art Fettig’s Website
• Order Art’s book, “Winning the Safety Commitment”
• Art’s Blog