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The current level of trade deficit is not sustainable, if we don’t start investing and selling products from America, other countries will start investing in America.

Non-compete clauses restrict a seller’s ability to operate or engage in a competing business for a period of time after closing. Survey responses show that three to five years is the prevailing non-compete period.

As every large & small business has experience, shipping & fulfillment costs have increased exponentially…especially during the last 2 ‘COVID’ years. Amazon’s logistics costs have skyrocketed over the past decade, with shipping and fulfillment costs growing almost 40-fold between 2009 and 2021 (revenue growth: almost 20-fold). https://www.statista.com/chart/17207/amazon-shipping-and-fulfillment-costs/

As the labor numbers came in strong this past week, the following graph shows the percentage of people who are back in the labor force is rising. The percentage of people working or looking for jobs reached its largest point since before the pandemic, Nathan writes. And it turns out… Read More »Back To Work

We all know reviews are important, just look at what we do when we look at items on amazon or if we look for a new contractor we ask our friends and then start looking online for reviews. This survey by Power Reviews gives a great snapshot The Power of… Read More »The Importance of Reviews

As outlined by Axios. The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate is history, but about half of U.S. employers are proceeding with one anyway, Nathan writes. By the numbers: Nearly a quarter of employers are already requiring vaccinations without a testing option despite the Supreme Court scrapping the Biden mandate, according… Read More »Employers Vaccination Requirements

There is still loads of money available for businesses acquisitions and business investments. Last week we reported that 2021 was a record year for PE secondaries deals, but a new Evercore report suggests that the times will keep booming. There’s over $100 billion in dry powder dedicated to secondaries, with… Read More »More Money (‘Dry Powder’) Available for Purchasing Businesses