Smart businessmen and women are BizVid Communications’ favorite kind of video production partners. Successfully riding each hill and valley on your company projections takes skill and persistence. And hedging your bets a little.
There are a lot of “professional sounding” voices out there casting gloomy and rosy forecasts. Over the years BizVid has learned to take an optimistic approach. When producing videos to showcase the values and benefits of our business friends, capturing and showcasing optimism is a winning ingredient, to make your clientele confident in what you can do for them.
The costs of goods and services play key roles. Many believe we are coming out of some of the most challenging times economically, but some say recent indicators suggest a significant turn for the better. Others disagree.
This is the time in our blog when we help readers sift through the barrage of viewpoints, to glean the most likely scenarios to hedge your bets to economically benefit your organization.
Reuters News Agency offered their insights in late April and early May, 2025 regarding the topic of tariffs and how they may impact American consumers & businesses. Here are some excerpts.
“73% of Americans expect price surge under Trump tariffs, Reuters/lpsos poll finds”
Most Americans are bracing for higher prices on a wide range of consumer goods following (the current administration) move(s) to impose sweeping new tariffs on imports from most of the world, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Also, from Reuters entitled Macro Matters, May 1, 2025
U.S. job growth likely slowed in “Tariff-induced uncertainty seen curbing US job growth in April”
April amid heightened economic uncertainty because of the current president’s aggressive tariff policy, though companies continued to hoard workers, keeping the labor market humming for now.
From a different point of view, the following are excerpts from a May 3, 2025, Small Business Association article from The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil entitled…
“SBA Chief Loeffler Pushes Back Against Media Narrative on Tariffs.”
SAVANNAH, Georgia—Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler celebrated Friday’s jobs report dismissed fears about a tariff-induced recession and expressed optimism that the U.S. economy is “spring-loaded” for success.
“Every meeting I come out of with manufacturers, they are completely enthusiastic and optimistic,” Loeffler told The Daily Signal in an interview at the Job Creators Network’s Freedom Fighters Summit in Savannah on Friday.
“They’re saying, ‘This can happen in America. I’ve been fighting that narrative, that we can’t make it here,’” she said, conveying the manufacturers’ message.
Loeffler went over what her agency had achieved in the first 100 days of the administration: …launching the “Made in America” manufacturing initiative across the states.
“I think we’ve laid the groundwork for … the remaining 3.8 years,” she said.
Loeffler called the coming years “really exciting,” mentioning Congress’ effort to preserve the current administration’s decreasing the size and scope of government, and bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
She predicted companies bringing jobs back to the U.S., “driven by the fair-trade policy, and we’re already seeing it at work.”
“…The White House… announced $8 trillion in investments by big companies,” Loeffler noted. “I talked to many of those CEOs. They deploy that capital through small businesses to build out their supply chain, to build, be subcontractors on parts and services, to help their communities have nice restaurants and retail stores.”
“It’s a great time to be a small business,” she said.
The April jobs report showed that employers added 177,000 jobs in April, above economists’ expectations. Employers added 167,000 private sector jobs, while state and local government job increases offset the decline of 9,000 jobs in the federal government, bringing the total to 10,000 new government jobs.
“Once again, the media was wrong.” the administrator said. “As I’m out across the country talking to manufacturers, they’re hiring. There is a blue-collar boom, and—I like to say—it’s extending into a new-collar boom, because these manufacturing and onshore logistics and transportation opportunities are technology-centric. They’re great-paying jobs with great benefits … I think the worst narrative is the incessant focus on tariffs, because we should be saying ‘fair trade’ instead of ‘tariffs,’” the SBA chief said.
Our closing summary.
When you mingle your company’s positive posture with the solid signs of economic opportunity, the time has come for you to invest in a video to display the benefits of who you are and what you can do for your client’s or customer’s needs. Wisely hedging your bets will pay off in your greatest success. BizVid Communications, your video production partner, is here to help.