Compex Business Expansion & Services, Inc.  7042 Hemlock St, Hanover Park, IL. 60133 Voice: 630-372-6652 Fax: 630-372-6653, E-mail: amorawski@compexbes.com

There are dramatic changes that affect markets and businesses, because of global competition for superiority, debt in trillions almost everywhere and totally incompetent individuals in Governments so their countries cannot cope with that. The leading country in this trend is… ours - the US. There is a lot to say about reasons of that, but in one word all what happens - is a result of ‘self-inflicting wounds’ which is a result of a total country’s mismanagement or rather no-management as a whole and… thievery. It is just sufficient to look at our country’s national debt - $31T + $5T for stimuluses – which no one on this Earth can pay off, since it is… impossible. If someone wants or needs to understand associated with this state details, short explanation or rich in details consultation is possible. By the way, in reality - nothing has been done by people from our Gov. to turn this situation around – perhaps because just those people caused all of that – so effectively there is no one to fix it. So, honestly speaking, situation on this level is VERY difficult, constantly worsens and will… not improve – because it is not doable – it’s already too late, unless… ,but it will never happen. So, the DEPRESSION is knocking on our doors (soon), not on the doors of those who caused all of this. The economic catastrophe is already coming if you also watch the economic chaos already in everything.

On the other hand from ONLY the business running standpoint - markets are becoming constantly more and more competitive due to more and more sophisticated and scientific methods of acquiring market share, customer bases and due to financial dependencies. Businesses to function must (many don’t) address all elements of running business such as: knowledge, infrastructure, capital, supportive business team, innovating marketing, competitive offerings, methods of attracting of customers, compliance, constant business/market-fit adjustments and finely outperforming competition and having TIME for doing all of these - just to name few and also deal with external pressures such as: unstoppable inflation, rising own costs and raising own prices which no one will be able soon to pay – also to name just few – all for a reason of at least business sustainment. Market interaction is a long term commitment and must be performed ALWAYS better than the competition can. There is… a long list of these functions as a part of so called ‘overhead’ to perform. Not attending some of them simply spells a trouble that is a loss of revenue or… worse. Let’s know that all functional requirements that apply to a big corporation ALSO apply to a small business.

Skipping over some of those functions initially creates savings, but at the same time increases risks which cost - when they materialize to a problem - is later MUCH BIGGER than the cost of properly run business what is a must at the first place. For example, lower efficiency and effectiveness in comparison to the competition performance transforms to: higher own costs of business, higher risks, own energy and time wasting on increased problem solving activities (and not on growth for example), lower revenue and longer hours – overall causes business weakening and often leads to gradual takeover of ‘our’ customer base by our competition what in turn imposes very high costs of regaining lost market position (if still possible) or in case of insufficient amount of money to pay for recovery – causes business… collapse.