New potential business for you

Have you ever thought of owning your own business that can add that little extra every month? Consider becoming a reseller of the universal bottle clip or caddy and potentially make between 200 to 500% margins! Easy to store, easy to ship, take to shows and more visit www.bottleclip.net and contact Kevin for more information! Tell Kevin Joe sent you.

A great product that can be used in several ways such as:

• Customer appreciation gift.
• Sales for Girl and Boy Scouts, 4-H, High School events, etc.
• Offer for sale on the check-out line.
• Give away at trade shows.
• Gifts for friends and family.
• Promotional events.

Universal Bottle Clips also know as The Bottle Caddy are made in the USA by KRS Corporation, LLC in Louisburg KS. KRS has been in business for over twelve years and we hold multiple patents for this and other outstanding products. Our bottle clip is designed to hold a bottle around the neck. Our clips fit 95% or more of the bottles currently used. Our clips come in multiple colors or we can manufacture specific colors for your needs.

Visit www.bottleclip.net and ask for Kevin, tell him Joe sent you.

A new and neat customer

From the Summer’s Garden offers unusual Studios and Creative Workshop experiences for people to make their own creations.  From the Summer's Garden where you'll find exciting garden inspired Creative Workshops, Studios and Crafts Classes for kids and adults.  

It is time for their 2018 Spring Garden Sale and the marketing theme this spring is Strawberry Garden Time! The marketing focus will be garden related to Mother's Day, Heart/House Imagery, bees and honey with creative workshops.

All sales and function dates are Friday,  Saturday and Sunday starting April 26th and running through May 28th. There will be an Opening Evening Garden Party Thursday, April 26th from 4 to 8 PM. The focus will have Live Music, Food Sampling free craft activity and more.

Come visit us and learn more and enjoy. Please visit https://peaceinmygarden.com and take in the many creations of this great business!

Bilt Industries

A bit about one of our customers:

In the fall of 2004, Bilt Industries, Inc. purchased the Klip-Bilt II® and Quick-Bilt® shelving lines from the Frick-Gallagher Manufacturing Company. Designed at inception to be the leanest viable business in the shelving industry, Bilt is structured to rapidly adjust so as to insulate its customers from market forces.

Galvanized by a stalwart business model, Bilt immediately began carving out a place for itself and earning the loyalty of significant customers. It has since proven more than capable of preserving the high-quality

a specification that Frick-Gallagher first offered over 70 years ago. The fledgling company proved so successful, in fact, that by 2007 it had already introduced a new line of box shelves. An impressive rate of growth continued to afford Bilt opportunities to diversify. As the decade drew to a close, this manifested in the launch of both an HD modular drawer line and mezzanine construction services.

Today, Bilt Industries has two state-of-the-art roll formers, modernized tooling, and a painting process, known as powder coating, that mitigates its environmental impact. With a new 40,000 sq ft. corporate office/distribution center in the greater Kansas City area, Bilt is well poised to continue realizing its ambitions.

Human verses Robot

I am writing this to explain our recent experience at a large box store who I will leave anonymous, We were shopping this large store looking for just a part and we looked and looked. Finally, we found a worker who came up to us and asked us if we needed help and we immediately said yes. My wife and I explained what we were looking for and showed him our defective now crumbling part and he immediately took us to an area, and he found the exact part we needed. The man went on to ask us more questions and we told him more of our problems and he took us to another area to solve those problems. We were set and we left happy.  My moral to this story is, I do not believe a machine could have helped us. I do not believe a Kiosk could have helped us but a human being with knowledge did help us and I hope we never lose track of that. Service in a store be it big or small is a must have if you wish to compete. Go the little extra, show you care because a machine will never care!

Robots are coming, automated check out is coming but that little smile, that final question if you found everything you wanted is priceless.

I say that the suggestive sell by the store clerk or by a salesperson is priceless! Increase your sales by suggestive selling and you might be surprised what you get and find.

More to come soon.

Joe

Tax time be vigilant

A neat article was written by Kim Komando please read I think it can help you:

https://www.komando.com/tips/441114/russian-hackers-are-after-your-tax-return-how-not-to-get-hacked?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=totd&utm_content=2018-03-19-article-a

A new customer to look at: www.ginnmfg.com

In 1979, Ginn Manufacturing was started by Bob Ginn in a small garage in rural Sumner county building tool and utility boxes. Using minimal equipment, much of it homemade, Ginn Manufacturing produced D.O.T required toolboxes for the city of Wichita, KS. and Kansas Dept. of Transportation. In 1984, Bob relocated the business 8 miles north of Caldwell, KS on Highway 49. After relocating, Bob built a 2700 sq ft shop, which was later enlarged to about 5000 sq ft. With the addition of more space and newer fabrication equipment, Ginn Manufacturing expanded their services to include sheet metal silhouette and sign design, which can be customized to any customer's imagination. Experience includes full time truck frame and chassis repair since 1973 for an area including all of Kansas, Oklahoma, and western Missouri.

More to come soon!

Joe Rossini

The robots are really coming!

This is a neat article:

By Jonathan Wilkins, Marketing Director, EU Automation

From the cute waste collector, WALL-E to the terrifying Terminator, films seem to portray robots similarly — overthrowing humanity. In reality, robots are rapidly appearing in manufacturing facilities, but are they taking over? This article explains how automation is impacting the US manufacturing workforce.

Increased automation has changed the manufacturing industry in the US. Manufacturers are rapidly introducing robotics to the assembly line. In fact, North American companies bought 32 per cent more robots in 2017 than in the same period in 2016.

Manufacturers are introducing robots to the factory to meet customer demands as they can quickly and efficiently complete tasks to increase productivity and help companies remain competitive. As manufacturers rely more on technology, the human workforce will need to adapt to make the most of the new technology available to them.

Worrying Reports

A recent report by the McKinsey Global Institutepredicts that between 39 million and 73 million jobs in the US could be lost to automation.

The actual number will depend on how rapidly the country adopts automation in each sector, how the growing aging population will change demands and how each sector will have to adapt to support economic growth.

Loss and Creation

It may appear that automation will only negatively impact employment in the US. However, reports suggest that the introduction of robotics will create jobs to change different industries.

The McKinsey report implies that around 20 million workers that could lose their job to automation will find it fairly easy to find work in a similar occupation. Those who cannot will have to retrain and work in entirely new occupations.

However, this is not new to us. The workforce has evolved many times to make way for technology. Jobs such as switchboard operators and elevator operators are now obsolete, but people found ways to retrain and find work in other sectors. 

The Types of Jobs

Robots can complete many blue-collar jobs currently completed by humans more quickly and more accurately. Technology optimises production but needs humans to make a difference. There are jobs in a range of industries that require human qualities, such as intuition, creativity and care.

Many manufacturers automate tasks that are repetitive, straining and time-consuming for humans. Instead, the human workforce can move to roles that require more soft skills such as collaboration, communication and problem-solving.

Some people may also choose to move across sectors. As education improves, people will have a wider range of skills that they can apply to roles in different sectors and choose to move around different job roles rather than staying in a similar role throughout their working life.

The bottom line is that we will not be able to stop the rise and march of the robot, it is a fact of life. How we as humans react and change to it is the key. New job training, new careers will be available as the robot takes over certain sectors but as a species we have adapted and we will again with different industries to conquer and to grow.


Joe Rossini