With all the talk about "Small Business Saturday" coming up after "Black Friday" and before "Cyber Monday" it should be no surprise that we support using "locals" whenever we can here at Ryan Alternative Staffing.
When you are a small business owner (like us) and you've gone down that path of starting something from scratch, taking all the risks associated with being a start-up along with the daily grind of worrying whether you're going to make it you appreciate others in that same boat. But it is more than that...
Consider that 99% of businesses with payrolls in this country are small businesses and that they employ more than half of all workers and create 80% of all new jobs. This means that there is a good chance that a friend, neighbor or family member depends on those that support small business.
Small business accounts for about 60% of U.S. GDP and has created 93% or 21.9 million of the new jobs created in America since 1989.
Some say that if you want to get this country moving again small business is the engine to do this. You want to lower unemployment....create an environment to help start-ups. You want to increase the tax base....turn the creative juices of entrepreneurship loose.
The Clinton Administration created 20 million new jobs....many came from start-ups. Think about Amazon starting in a garage and now employing 30,000 people.
Ronald Reagan said in a 1988 speech to students at Moscow University of all places that, "The explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the unknown. These entrepreneurs and their small business enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
The most important thing you (personally) or your company can do is obviously to support small business owners with your business. Supporting political candidates that support small business initiatives is another way. If you need a few more reasons consider these:
*Keeping Dollars In The Local Economy
*Local Job Creation
*Local Decision Making
*Local Prosperity and Community Well Being
*Product Diversity*
All that small business owners ask for is a chance to provide you or your place of business their product or service. We don't expect special treatment and we know that we have to deliver the goods so to speak.
So the next time you get ready to call for temporary staffing services look past those "giants" and give us little guys a chance. It just may be the best move you've ever made.
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