Why Makemi?

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Why Makemi?

• At Makemi we have a passion for small business. We were raised, lived and operated small business for over 50 years.

• Makemi is a patriotic company that is tired of those who neglect the important American economic sector of small business, under 50-employees.

• Makemi had the resources to develop, program and post this site and resources to use for content.

• Makemi searched for years and found few sites of the owners, for the owners, by the owners.  Makemi wanted a legacy for the owners of small business from their perspectives.

Your comments, participation and contributions are needed for all that is in this website.

• Your suggestions and ideas are needed for the design, features and focus of the site.
• Your discussion in a forum about a post is needed.
• Your posts to the benefit of all are needed.
• Your unique experience, insights and industry/activity inputs are needed.
• Your opinions are needed.
• You are needed.

The choice is yours to help make this Small Business Forum or to break it “one small business owner at a time”.

• It is your choice to both teach and learn on this site.
• It is your choice to contribute.
• It is your choice to visit and participate.
• It is your choice to share (teach) and learn from this site.
• It is your choice to band with fellow small business owners
• It is your choice to stand up and be counted with us.
• It is your choice to help us help ourselves.

Makemiweb.com is your forum for your use.  We have it funded for three years.  If all is well and market acceptance exists we will continue this open forum community of small business owners. If we meet our community forum, traffic and activity goals we have permanent funding after our 3-year trial beginning January 1, 2011.  How well the future unfolds is up to you, the small business owner, and your participation.

This is not about academia or theoretical advice from talking heads or publishing gurus. Makemi is about the expertise from the small business owners and for the small business owners. Makemi is for small business owners who have acquired their expertise from the street and schools of hard knocks.  This is a pragmatic effort, an honest effort, an American effort, and American opportunity for a community that Makemi thinks exists and Makemi thinks is underserved to stand up and be counted.

Makemi’s China activity was one of the major motivators for this site.  Why? China is changing to capitalism (a free market economy) and their service sector, small business, is the fastest growing sector.  China is reducing state owned involvement in business and has been increasing personal freedom since 1990s while America is decreasing personal freedom and increasing state owned enterprise (socialism) in fact or by regulation.

Makemi experiences the above first hand on every trip to China visiting Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing and second-tier cities such as Wuhan, Fujian and Dalian as well as smaller communities like Renqiu, Ping Gu Qu, Lianyungang as well as rural farm communities.  Experiencing small business free enterprise in China helped Makemi look through the glass clearly. What was seen was an America moving towards socialism of too-big-to-fail and more government parasites than revenue producers. China knows new jobs and new industry for the future come from entrepreneurial start-ups and existing small businesses which are the germinating fields for the future of their families and children. America has forgotten that, in large part. America is hanging on to the old of Wall Street, too-big-to-fail, government ownership and socialized population control and management.  In China Americans can be rejuvenated and see themselves more clearly and the mission of the American spirit; small business.

The Americans need customers and buyers with money who can pay for the orders and deliver the goods. The Chinese need customers and buyers with money who can pay for the orders and deliver the goods.  Makemi has six goals:

1. Provide a FORUM for small business owners.
2. Donate help to small businesses in trouble for FREE if needed and wanted
3. Assist small business in America
4. Assist small business in China
5. Build bridges between America and Chinese small businesses.
6. Make a profit (the secret recipe of Makemi).

State-owned companies like GM and SAIC Motor Co. Ltd.’s dominate their respective countries but their contribution may not be healthy for the long-term.  Makemi is satisfied to let the self-interested politicians, over-benefitted government workers, the too-big-to-fail corporations and pundits waste their time on their self-serving efforts to cling to the failed past bolstering their higher income levels and profits from the plights and backs of the others; small business, small farm and non-union workers and families.

Makemi is focusing on the true strength of the American economy, the training ground for the future, the new jobs of the future, the foundation of family, and the seminal roots of all too-big-to-fail; the small business owner/farmer/worker and their family future.

Please join us. Together we can be strong. Together we can be a rational voice heard by all again.  Together we can elevate the respect and consideration we deserve from others.  Together we can redefine ourselves for a more successful future.

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What is a small business

What is a small business? Small business is the common seed of most branded, international companies. Small businesses are the creators of new jobs, not more jobs but new jobs on which the future is built.

Wikipedia defines small business as variable measurements and numbers.  Makemi says that a generally a small business in most of the western world is any business of less than 25 full time employees + 20 employees.

This Makemi is a small business service provider company and a website, blog and forum on the Internet for small business owners.  After 2 decades searching on the Internet and 5+ decades living with small business it appears that the Small Business Administration (SBA), banks, insurance companies and other financial arms have their own agendas and sales programs without much regard for small business success in far too many instances.  Most with altruistic hearts have blogs and Internet posts that educate as to the technology of business, educate and compare as to the attributes of products and suggest choices for buying decisions from the perspective of the seller or educators (those who teach because they cannot do).   Most all sites seem to focus on sales; getting their hand on the small business owner’s wallet.  This writer has found no Internet sites with substance, experience, expertise, education and content worth of the small business owners.  This site is an attempt to change that with a forum, community, a weblog of small business owners. The small business community deserves to speak and be heard.  The small business community deserves their own common forum for sharing and learning.  Makemi is where the small business voice can be heard. We have years of small business history including experience as a SCORE instructor with articles on buying and selling a small business in the library of the SBA).  We have experience as an adjunct (part time) small business lecturer. We grew up in small business and are and have been the owner of small business.  We at Makemi felt that it was time for a small business owner’s forum with substance, shared interests and a voice for the small business owners.  To the chagrin of many Makemi dares to say that the “King has no clothes”. The Chamber of Commerce, SBA and others have misdirected concern for small business, they propagate false information and actually serve in many ways as a detriment to small business success. Academics, talking heads, pundits, politicians and “caring others” do not serve the wallet and family of the small business owner well.

If there is any disagreement with the perspectives voiced above please. If agreement, please comment.  Please share real life scenarios that those in academia, government or all other salaried peoples with paid benefits seldom can appreciate from the perspective of the small business owner.  Small business is one of the only places where the “rubber hits the road” 24-hours a day, seven days a week, month after interminable month.

Small business is the doorway from supervised labor to self-supervised labor (small business shop which is really a job) to a company (managing people and assets) such as the following success.

Apple Microsoft,   KFC Gucci HP Gene Juarez

All of the above started out as unemployed with a one-person or two-person small business working 12-20 hours-a-day, often for years, maybe in a garage or motel with canned beans for food, before becoming a company. During those “birthing times” the owners were slaves to and for their own growing success story.  Unfortunately, like Broadway in New York where less than 2,000 people make a living off of theater, small business successes while exciting and the dreams of all they are few and far between.  Right time, right place, right connections, good luck and the right capital (Groupon began with $1,000,000)  seem to be needed with vision, incredible hard work, and perseverance against all odds. The truth of the matter is that small business is the most important part of the commerce of an economy and yet, especially in America, one of the most neglected and least considered contributors to economic well-being of the country.  Small business while given great lip service is given little consideration by government, politicians, major corporations and institutions   Makemi is about changing that.

Roger Harman, Makemi

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