New vs Existing Businesses
SHOULD TOWN FOCUS ON SUPPORTING EXISTING BUSINESSES OR FINDING NEW BUSINESSES?
The 2020 US Census [ Click Here! ]
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The [ BN ] looked at the 2020 census data in comparison to the 2010 census data. (Click on the map to view the full size image) Evans was one of three towns to lose more than 1,000 residents. Why?
High taxes! The closing of New Era and many other businesses has forced many families to leave Evans looking for jobs. Residents will continue to leave Evans as long as tax rates are higher than surrounding towns.
What Can Evans Offer Businesses?
When a business is evaluating locations in different towns, two of the top considerations are taxes and population. Evans isn’t favorable for either of these considerations. What Evans has to offer is the 12.5 miles of waterfront. Developing tourism via investing in the waterfront is the town’s best chance for future success. Number one on the list should be significant improvements at the Sturgeon Point Marina. The Skywalk is a major tourist attraction at the Grand Canyon. Wouldn’t a skywalk at the Sturgeon Point Marina bring tourists here?
Where Should Town Focus? → Finding New Businesses? → Supporting Existing Businesses?
Acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer. Increasing customer retention by 5% can increase profits from 25-95%. The success rate of selling to a customer you already have is 60-70%, while the success rate of selling to a new customer is 5-20%. [ Click Here! ]
In government terms, the town should “ask” businesses already in town what they need. Evans needs to focus on the needs of the businesses already here and less time on finding new businesses.
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
THE TRUTH
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
HONESTY vs HYPOCRISY
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
GOOD INTENTIONS
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
POLITICAL POWER
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
GOVERNMENT’S VOICE
Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people’s voice.
THE GOAL OF MARXISM
Marxism is not about free speech and debate, it is about domination, repression, indoctrination, conformity, and compliance.
DANGEROUS DECISIONS
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Leadership
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
