Employers in Small Businesses, especially, are feeling the drop off in customers thanks to the economic downturn.   Services that people took for granted as having performed by professionals are now being relegated as do it yourself or DIY projects.   Everything from lawn care to hair, skin and beauty care, are now being revisited ad DIY.   [...]

Layoffs in the media industry are becoming all too common.   It is like a mass slaughter with thousands of people being laid off.  Whether it is desperation to cut cost that drive the layoffs or the fact that some of the venues are nearly outmoded, is another issue.  Probably a little of both.  But in [...]

There are layoffs aplenty, as we all know.  Since this economic debacle first began a reported 2.6 million jobs have been lost.  Over half-million were lost just last month.   In reality, there are probably more job losses than what has been reported.  That’s the way it always seem. But employers are trying desperately to keep [...]

There have been numerous studies where businesses who open or expand during a lousy economy often tend to do better than their competitors when times turn around.   I suppose the best way to put it is that the more intrepid step on the gas while the others ease off and cut back.   The more intrepid, [...]