mexico unless they do something quickly except i m afraid they may want me to. look, the these kinds of deals are not at all uncommon, let s be clear about that, and it s extremely unusual for a president or president-elect to weigh in on them and governors and legislatures and mayors do this sort of thing all the time. now, sometimes it kind of works and a lot of times it s just bribery, and it s not my criticism is that this is not a systemic, scaleable, replicable kind of economic policy that will be effective in pushing back on the down sides of globalization, which is actually a very important and warranted policy idea. by the way, neither will 35% tariffs and just to be clear he can t do that by himself. he needs congress on that one. you know, lisa, let s talk about this as a matter of what s happening in the big picture because what s costing a lot of american job, and this is going back even before nafta is
i imagine the firm was perfectly okay being yelled at once they got that check from the state of indiana. if trump s team is listening to me right now, i m going to take my operation down to mexico and say write me a check. that might not work because i m a critic. this is not a systemic or scaleable approach. i want to say the idea that the president should take a deep interest in the downsize of globalization, in the fact communities, families, workers have been hurt and lost their jobs to trade with low wage countries like mexico and china, that s real. you don t solve that by writing checks and bribing a couple of factories because you happen to make a campaign promise. how you do solve it, you go after the trade deficit, lift the level of productivity of the american work force and advanced manufacturing. there is a list of ideas we need
businesses engaged? it seems like such an overwhelming challenge. is it one step at a time? it is one step at a time. i think it s also scaleable. we are going to open 1,000 hope inside locations. sun trust opened 20, committed to opening 20. first tennessee bank, largest bank of tennessee, committed to 15. we are the only nonprofit inside of a bank branch. hyatt hotels committed to two. whole foods, we are negotiating with them. two hospitals in detroit, we are working with the mayor to do 100 locations in detroit, part of their revitalization effort. coca cola just committed $1 million today to put hope inside for women and entrepreneurship for girls in public schools, very much like the school the president was at. so we need not just a ph.d. conversation but a ph-do
the benefit, the education, the insight into that, into your business, without any of that addition gnat pain or investment that is that goes along with the traditional route of hiring an accountant or a bookkeeper. using traditional accounting systems. i think what people need to take from this is there is stuff out there to help you. do some research, right? zblit depends on what your needs are. if you need something with a bit more of a human touch, there s companies like bench that they can do that. if you need something more scaleable, we do that on the other side. there are so many options out there. let s move to the next one. review your numbers weekly. really pick out which numbers are most important for you to know for your company. light. and i think the most important thing in that whole process is really to make sure that you re making this repeatable behavior. become something that you just
exactly. if any of you out there have a company and want feedback from our elevator pitch panel on your chances of getting interested investors, please send us an e-mail, yourbusiness@msn yourbusiness@msnbc.com. include a summary of what your company does, how much you re trying to raise and what you intend to do with that money. we look forward to reading all those pitches and seeing some of you here on the show. it s time to answer some of your business business. rod and alish sha are back with us. the first one is about deciding how to grow your business. being a small business that s starting to grow, i ve been doing everything. i know that some parts of my business i need to stop doing and i need to discern which parts of my business are scaleable. my question is how do i make that decision? all right, alicia, you are often the first outside money into a company. you probably see this problem all the time. all the time.