A note from Warehouse Las Vegas

The year is nearing the mid-point. Have you met your corporate logistic goals? Do you have the right vendors in place to help you accomplish your goals? Have you developed a strategic warehousing plan for the second half of 2010?

The Warehouse Las Vegas staff is one of the most experienced in Las Vegas to assist you in developing your warehousing plan and accomplishing your warehousing and logistic goals. Check out our web site to learn more about what we have to offer our clients that need services in Las Vegas; www.warehouselasvegas.com.

Our Macau, China warehouse services have proved very useful to companies needing logistic and warehouse services in the vibrant business economy in Macau; www.macauwarehouse.com. We look forward to building relationships with customers having warehousing needs in China.

Locally here in Nevada, The Warehouse Las Vegas Team continues to cultivate innovation to our services to exceed your expectations 2010. Please visit our website for details on all of our available services. If you have any type of logistical or warehousing needs please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Nevada vs. California Tax Analysis

Nevada provides significant tax advantages to companies locating their manufacturing and/or distribution facilities in the State verses California (and any other state with a corporate and individual income tax). These tax advantages are a compliment to the transportation advantages, namely the ability to reach seven western states overnight and another six states second day at rates traditionally lower than other locations.

Below is a chart that ranks Nevada as the 3rd best State to do business in from a tax perspective (Wisconsin and South Dakota ranked first and second, respectively), while California ranks 48th (the only worse states were Rhode Island and New Jersey).

State Business Tax Climate Index, 2006 - 2009,
Fiscal Years (July 1 - June 30)

Note: The higher the score, the more favorable a state's tax system is for business.

Source: Tax Foundation

Cultivating Innovation

These are competitive and tough business climates. Every organization has to adapt and be productive or die in this economy. Large changes or small changes, to any organization demonstrate a will to adapt and survive. We took some excerpts from a great organization like Zappos to demonstrate how encouraging employees to think out of the box benefits everyone: the employees, the organization and the customers. Below are just a couple of tips we use at Warehouse Las Vegas to continue our improvement for our clients. We want to ensure our customers complacency is not an option at Warehouse Las Vegas. How about you? How does your organization rate in ability to build a culture vibrant in creating innovative products and services?

Here are their top two tips that will help you build a culture that thrives on innovation and continuous improvement measures rather than lowering prices to beat out competitors. Competing in a price war is a losing battle. Instead, compete with continuous innovation.

1. Set and communicate clear goals. In many organizations, innovation is considered important, but not urgent, and tends to get postponed into next year's strategic plan. Ensure that everyone in the company knows that the organization has made a bold decision to out-innovate the competition. Employees need to know what percentage of revenue is coming from existing products that compete solely on price, as well as the predicted revenue percentage derived from new products the organization hopes to produce in the next one, three and five years.



2. Make innovation everyone's responsibility! For an organization's brand to prosper, innovation and continuous improvement needs to be everyone's responsibility. To be a competitor, or better yet, a pioneer in the organization's industry, innovation should be the responsibility of every employee. As a leader, it is important to remember that each employee, regardless of job title, will have a unique view and valuable feedback about the company's products or services. Make it part of everyone's job description to provide constructive feedback and participation in brainstorming, complete with performance goals for each area of influence. Every employee needs to be thinking of how to improve a product or service and better yet, how to create a product or service that is currently not on the market.