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Green Packaging, Inc. is the future of successful and responsible business. Best advice: surrounding yourself with experts in order to focus on building your company. Keep up the great work!!
I love your story and presentation, sincere and honest. I personally can't stand excessive packaging, especially materials that are not recycleable or biodegradable. I hope you win so your business can grow and continue to prosper.
Wayne, it is inspiring to learn how you stuck to your ideals and forged ahead.
With the deterioration of the status quo in our economy and society, I think more people find themselves in a kind of free-fall and are beginning to realize they can take risks and follow their dream as there really is nothing to lose after all.
Passion perseveres!
So very inspiring that this company serves its customers and the world also with environmentally conscious products that save the planet! Way to go!
Wayne, Way to go! Your story is an inspiration to us all.
Best of luck,
Karen
I'm impressed by the initiatives you've taken to be environmentally responsible. Too many companies are green in name only, so it's heartening to see how much genuine change can result from a small business. I appreciated the advice about staying focused on your strengths. Best of luck.
It is great to see a small business taking this type of initiative for the greater green! Go green packaging!
Simple, heartfelt, sincere.
I manage the certified trees, you sell the green products. Forestry and forest products are good for the environment and for business. Keep up the good work.
Wayne,
Best of luck! This was an excellent video. It was informative and user friendly.
Great story...You are very inspiring and such a GREAT thinker! It is nice to know that responsible steps are being taken to help with our childrens future.
Love it! A wonderful example of turning a negative experience into a positive one, protecting the planet and giving back at the same time
In the short time that we have been acquainted with Wayne, we have found him to be an exceptionally committed person in everything that he has undertaken. We applaud his concern for the environment and anticipate that he will be conducting a very useful and successful enterprise.
I am so happy to hear that going green is your focus and that more companies continue to partner with you. Great job!!!!!! Thanks for reminding me of how important it is for each of us to do our part in creating a better environment! Happy recycling!!!!! Merry
We are also starting a new business venture with the same goals and commitment to the community and environment. I was very inspired when I "googled" eco-friendly packaging and ran across your business. Your response was timely and I look forward to partnering with you regarding our packaging needs.
Paula Adams
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Good example of enterprise and creativity.
great story, and good luck in your bussiness as well as the contest.
Text graphic is hard to read in green. Should get in closer on the speaker. Looking down to read from a script isn't good. Best to memorize your lines. The cuts appear unnatural. Its a good useful story, though.
Wayne, I love the fact that unlike some of the "concepts" illustrated in this competition, that you actually have a company, and that it apparently embraces problems this country faces and has come up with a business based solution for those issues. The things that you have had to deal with in your former employer, your distinct lack of whine, the economic challenges that have blindsided us all, well, you are an inspiration!
Grantastic, is trolling. They are doing it to others as well.
Thank You Wayne, for the pioneering job!
As our own company spools up to join the Green Revolution, You can be assured you will add us to your QBs!
Thanks, Grantastic for the constructive criticism. I'm certainly not a videographer, nor an actor. I'm a businessperson. I wish I could have done a better,more creative video,but on short notice and working 60 hour weeks in my business, it was hard! I have a learning disability that makes it difficult to memorize scripts. I edited a lot, including my advice that now is the best time to start a business and my wish that everyone who starts a business is as happy in theirs as I am in mine!!
Well done Wayne- Best of luck to you!
You are well on your way to your dream of making a difference. Stay with it! You inspire others with your ideas and make your goals their goals for a better environment.
I thought that the information was well presented. It was clear and very understandable. I have already used one of your products and am well pleased the fact that the it does exactly what he said it would do - give longer shelf life to the product.
Thanks so much for the nice comment Wayne! It's so wonderful to see three of us (Green America members) as finalists! You have a really great story and I wish you all the success in the world. :)
Your story is very inspiring to anyone considering starting a business. You have made the points necessary for success especially in hire others for the areas you don't have expertise and put your efforts into the areas of your expertise.
Green Packaging has my vote
I like what Green Packaging is doing to improve the environment!
And with Wayne Siefert as President of Green Packaging, you can be sure the company is in good hands! Wayne Siefert is the man!
-Ryan
Green Packaging has my vote
I like what Green Packaging is doing to improve the environment!
And with Wayne Siefert as President of Green Packaging, you can be sure the company is in good hands! Wayne Siefert is the man!
-Ryan
Green Packaging is one of close to 40 companies located in the center in which I work also. I've watched an honest, hard working , fun and funny person grow an eco-friendly business, with integrity and passion for goodwill towards both the planet and every living thing populating it. I'm proud to know Wayne and wish him the very best. He really does deserve to win this contest to help his business expand because it would benefit everyone.
Great entrepreneurial story Wayne. If you win, I have some marketing uses for some of thsoe dollars. Best wishes!
Your video makes me want to switch to your packaging products for my small business! Good luck!
Wayne,
Great story. It's great motivation, especially now, to do what you love and believe in what you are doing. All this with helping the environment, 2 thumbs up!
Best of luck on this contest, and continued success throughout the years!
Mike
Best of Luck, Wayne! You're an inspiration to us all.
Wayne, Thanks for inspiring others to care. Your work with the Sustainable Business Network and other organizations is making a difference. I can't imagine that anyone else in this contest is more deserving.
Great job. Wish you luck.
Great job. Wish you luck.
Rather than reading from desk, have dialogue on charts behind camera. Although it is important to have a person in the video, it could be improved by spending more time showing products and less time showing the speaker. The message is still an excellent one, however, and you've taken the right approach in growing your business. I'm sure you'll continue to be successful.
LEM
great business and great success story! everyone should think like they're president (of their own company ;-) to take charge of their own careers and to put great business ideas like this into action - whether inside a company or on your own. wish you the best of luck!
Wayne, thank you for blazing a trail in the packaging industry!
Wayne, you are a wonderful man and an even better business man. Your story is wonderful and should be shared with everyone. Going green is the way of the future and you're on top of your game!!! Best of luck in the competition!! Colleen
so wonderful to see some green america businesses in the finals. you all have great stories. i really hope an eco friendly company wins.
Good Luck! Great story.
Wayne, Good luck!
It's great to see someone take positive action in this poor economy. You could have just whined and applied for unemployment, but instead created a company that is a credit to you and the effort to clean up the environment. Keep up the good work!
Too echo the comment of others, you truly are an inspiration Wayne. It seems that 'being green' has become such a buzzword today that many companies do as little as possible just to be able to add it to their tag line. It's clear that you, on the other hand, are enthusiastically committed to actually making a difference on this planet. Kudos to Green Packaging!
Cool video, Wayne! You look so professional and serious--you can tell you're headed toward the Fortune 500!! Best of luck with your company and the contest!! Love, Joann & Tom
Hey, Wayne!! it said we could vote more than once, so what the heck??!! Good luck!! Joann
Green America People standing by their ethics. People notice Wayne. Good on you and best of luck as this winds down.
Wayne:
Great job. Best of Luck with the contest.
very nice save the planet. Anna
Wayne: Its nice to see a company that creates products that are good for the environment, and contributes a % to environmental causes. Great job.
Finalist story from GPIWayne:
In October of 2007, when I was "down-sized" (I REALLY hate that word!) by my former employer of nearly ten years, I vowed never to let that happen to me again. The only way that would be possible would be for me to start my own company, Green Packaging, Inc. With 20 years of experience in selling traditional packaging materials (yes, I sold those dreaded styrofoam packing "peanuts), I wanted to make my company different from all of my competitors, and I wanted it to be a company I could be proud of!
No plastic bubble wrap, stretch wrap, polyurethane foam, or polystyrene products would ever pass through my doors! Those plastics are petroleum-based and they increase our dependence on foreign oil, and contribute to global warming. My business plan was to sell only recycled, biodegradable, eco-friendly, sustainable packaging materials. The goal was to help change the world for the better. After all, we can't keep filling our already brimming landfills with more plastic packaging materials that won't decompose for a thousand years! The goal was realistic, but it wasn't without a major bump in the road.
When my former employer found out about my new venture, he decided to take me to court to try to enforce a non-compete contract I had signed during my employment. Even though I was not competing with my former employer (they did not sell earth-friendly packaging materials) I was dragged into an extended court case that lasted almost a year. In the end, the judge agreed with me that I was not competing with them. I won my very first court case, woo-hoo!
Green Packaging, Inc. has successfully converted many companies from traditional plastic packaging to our eco-sensitive, sustainable products. Our products have great names like Prairie Eco Pak, Paper Nuts, and Globe Guard Boxes. We have successfully converted many companies from non-degradable plastics to our earth-friendly, recycled, biodegradable products. Our customers range from "Mom and Pop" operations all the way up to Fortune 500 companies. We have even sold our products to an Intuit company!
Selling products that are good for the environment made me feel good too! But I wanted to do a little more. I joined One Percent for the Planet, a group of companies who donate 1% of their annual sales revenues to environmental charities. I believe that as a successful business owner, I have a responsibility to give back to our community and to the natural environment.
First of all, my suggestion is to sell products or services that you really, really believe in, and that you would use or buy yourself. Secondly, in business, you need to surround yourself with professionals who can help you succeed. Your banker, accountant, attorney, insurance agent, web site designer must be top-notch professionals, for they are helping you guide your business. Also, treat your suppliers as well as you treat your customers, because they are an integral part of your company
Wayne, you are an inspiration. I love stories of people who transitioned their expertise over to a green approach. Good work and best of luck!
Anne