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Corra Says, It’s Memorial Day. Let’s Remember

Memorial Day has come to be known as the weekend kickoff for the summer season. It is known for barbecuing, taking the family on three day vacations to lakes and beaches. On the downside we know it for all the traffic accidents, and the tally comes in over the news on Monday like some grim form of ball scores.

What we sometimes forget is this is the weekend to remember those who have fallen in defense of this country. Whether your are for war or against it, for this war or against it, be grateful that there are some of us who have answered the call in times of national crisis. I don’t like to get all jingoistic about this, all the knee jerk patriotism, but considering there is a new GI Bill being voted on in Congress, this is really the weekend to remember that ware is not a movie, resolved in a couple of hours. Nor is war a video game. War is where very real people lose their lives for their convictions and sense of duty. Where families suffer and where loved ones come to terms with the loss and finality of a soldier’s passing.

So while some of us might take this holiday more seriously and actually visit the national cemeteries where are fallen are laid to rest, let the rest of is at least take brief cognizance as to what this holiday is all about.

Come Tuesday Corra will be open again, and servicing your preemployment screening needs. We are the background checking company, and a service for business research. We will soon be offering new products, which you can review online.

But let’s all have a safe holiday weekend and remember to give thanks to our fallen soldiers this holiday weekend.

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Mom and Pop is Now Mom and Daughter

The Success Gene

Why some family businesses thrive year after year after year.

From: Inc. Magazine| By: Adam Bluestein


  • Even successful family businesses tend to resemble fireflies. They flicker brightly for a brief moment, then die away. Consultants call this the rule of thirds: Only about a third of businesses make it to a second generation, a third of those live to see a third generation, and on and on. A precious few family businesses, though, do manage to beat the odds. They are passed down, revived, and reinvented from generation to generation, while all the others have long since gone bust, been bought, or just slowly faded away, done in by family feuds, hard times, or changing tastes.
  • We have taken a close look at half a dozen fifth- and sixth-generation family businesses. It turns out they are a very special breed. They tend to make and sell products that last: guitars, pool tables, furniture. They have managed to keep much of their manufacturing in the United States. And they are able to put today’s challenges — globalization, say — in perspective. “You think this is bad?” they might say. “You should have seen what happened during the Great Depression!”
  • For the entire article go to inc.com

You have to love this article. Family businesses are back and, arguably, some family or close knit operations are the backbone of American manufacturing. These are the companies that actually produce goods and other things. These are the companies as the article attests, that prefer not to outsource but rather find manufacturing operations here.

With the cost of fuel on the increase, this isn’t a bad idea at all. Coupled with the low dollar value, this is an opportune time to ship overseas or to domestic companies who would rather not pay the high cost of trans-oceanic shipping.

If you are one of these small companies, you could be a Mom and Pop operation. You could be a young couple starting out and wanting to have a go at being entrepreneurs. You could be on the other side of the equation–boomers who have had enough of the corporate world and now decide to go it on their own. Increasingly the Mom and Pop operations, or the father and son operations, now list Mom and Daughter as part of the growing list of entrepreneurs. This is terrific and a sure sign of economic progress.

When you are doing business you should be conducting Corra background checks on the people you are hiring and business research on the companies with which you wish to do business. Spend the few bucks and have a pre-employment screening program, with screening packages for your different hires. And be sure to run the business credit reports for vendors and clients alike. It’s one thing to have clients and vendors, but it’s another to be assure they will either pay you or provide you with their needed goods and services.

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The New Face of Corra Group, The Background Checking Service

Having blogged for years as the anonymous Corra, we have decided to come forth and begin posting more unique blog articles, pertaining to background checks and corporate investigation and research. We will also be inviting guest bloggers to post on Daily Planet, issuing forth their nuggets of wisdom about Human Resources, Business Management, Corporate Research and Investigation, and, of course, preemployment background checks.

We hope this will be a lot of fun. We hope others will comment or offer their own insights and suggestions. Since this is a professional site we certainly want to keep all comments and postings, well, professional.

But this is an expanding universe and by sharing our insights and observations in the above listed arenas we hope people will learn valuable listens in the different categories we at Corra service every day.

Nick Gustavson and I founded Corra so we could offer premium background checking reports and provide intimate but professional customer service. We saw what was wrong in places we had worked previously. We saw what was right with the places we worked previously. We threw out the wrong, worked on the right, and then we tried a few things on our own. We would like to think we have been innovative, but perhaps old timers could tell us that some of our business practices are so old they are new.

Anyway, we will work hard to give you insights and overviews into employment concerns as well as corporate research and investigation. We will shed light on domestic issues as well as international background packages.

And, please, don’t be shy about giving us suggestions or offering yourselves as guest bloggers. But be professional, please.

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Going Green Can Cost Some Green

‘Green’ initiatives see red in economic uncertainty

“While there is room for much progress, we are seeing companies dedicate top talent and resources to promoting sustainability and corporate responsibility”

LOS ANGELES, USA: A majority of executives believed that “green” initiatives would take a back seat to profit-driven activities in today’s uncertain economic times, a survey revealed. via CIOL

For the complete story go to yahoo.

These are tough times, tougher for some than they are for others. Yet it is important to demonstrate to your consumers that you are concerned with the environment and are planning or constructing a green office.

Since there is much appeal to a sustainable office environment, Corra Background Checks, offers pre-employment screening services that can help you determine which employment candidates are up to date on the process of taking your office green.

Corra offers the type of corporate research that will also help you determine if your vendors and venture partners are also boasting an environmentally sustainable office culture. If this important? Well, when surveyed most consumers believe so and warm up to companies that are ecologically sustainable.

It may cost you money, but then you may make money from your efforts. Perhaps more importantly, there is less chance of your losing money to competitors who have gotten the “green memo.”

Go green. Make green. It’s good for the environment and good for business.

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