The Morning Report Weekly Wrap Up Gregg Stebben

We discuss implications of Biden vaccine/testing mandate for small business; a handful of states now require employers to disclose salaries; what happens now for small businesses that thought we'd be "past" Covid by now?

We discuss essential changes in hiring for today's workforce shortage; how to shift from commodity to value pricing; Loren discusses 21Hats pricing challenges; we highlight info in today's SBE Council podcast on self employment for wealth creation.

The recently enhanced Employee Retention Tax Credit for small biz; two interesting stories about how the Amazon platform gives birth to new startups rolling up other Amazon sellers and Amazon delivery partners; SBE Council's new tax policy survey.

How to leverage entrepreneurial employees as assets for your company; private equity experiment shows big spread on valuations; airlines still expect business travel to return this fall, but what about the Delta variant and Zoom?

We talk masks, vaccines and the Delta variant, and what small businesses can do to manage it all effectively; we also pay tribute to master pitchman/entrepreneur Ron Popeil and discuss both personal and business lessons we can learn from him.

We talk about how, deep in Missouri and Delta variant hotspot, Jack Stack and his team from SCR Holdings are using the "MiniGame" strategy from his "Great Game of Business" fame to motivate employees to get vaccinated.