{"id":182,"date":"2009-11-03T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/11\/03\/power-summit-video-about-economy\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:04:44","slug":"power-summit-video-about-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/2009\/11\/03\/power-summit-video-about-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Summit Video About Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9DDLfeeXUg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/PSTim.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>Everyone gathered at the 2009 Power Summit in California has seen, heard and learned a lot already at numerous sessions, speeches and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9DDLfeeXUg\">Click here<\/a> for a video outlining these key insights from our sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Exclusive session with economics expert Roger Farmer<\/strong>. This last year was really about a lack of confidence, which means companies lacked any real decision-making about purchases. Going forward, inflation is possible, which would affect prices of raw goods from China.\u00a0 But, as jobs start to recover, wages will go higher. He predicts it&#8217;ll take about five years for unemployment to drop back down from 10% to about 5-6%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not.<\/strong>\u00a0 Executives in this session said communication was most important right now, with clients and employees alike. Have a baseline plan that outlines how to get more revenue and how to cut costs appropriately.\u00a0 And just because the economy is down doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t recognize and reward your staff.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>U.S.-made products versus importing.<\/strong> Know where your products come from.\u00a0 If clients ask you where the product was made, you need to know, and you need to know if it&#8217;s safe. Interestingly, price is not the sole factor in a purchase.\u00a0 Safety and the manufacturing source are very important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9DDLfeeXUg\">Click here<\/a> for the video.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts? Post a comment or email me <a href=\"mailto:tim.andrews@asicentral.com\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Andrews_ASI\">Twitter<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/timothymandrews\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone gathered at the 2009 Power Summit in California has seen, heard and learned a lot already at numerous sessions, speeches and networking opportunities. Click here for a video outlining these key insights from our sessions: Exclusive session with economics expert Roger Farmer. This last year was really about a lack of confidence, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24,5,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-education","category-industry-initiatives","category-members","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timandrewsblog-asicentral.com\/timblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}