Anchors Away as TV Stations Lay Off the News Guys

Iconic anchormen may be a thing of the past.   Even in regional television where the long familiar faces and voices of anchormen and women have graced our screens with the comforts of recognition, these senior news givers are being shuffled off like last week’s headlines.   They are too expensive for today’s market, and the star [...]

Do Like Unilever, Cut Costs By Cutting Colors

The economy is tight, there is no doubt about it.   We are now officially in a recession, or, rather, it has been proclaimed we have been in a recession for the past year.   Like who didn’t know?  So in a tough economy it is prudent to look for places to cut business costs.   It is [...]

Fears of Increased Violence in the Workplace

I enjoy reading Stratfor.  I believe it is one of the more intelligent publications in the country or for that matter around the world.   It provides intelligence and analysis for everything from military and terrorism, to the economy and the world market.
Stratfor recently released an article, analyzing what it sees as the possibility of increased [...]

Grab the Pail, It’s Time To Bail. Again.

The United States Government is bailing out CitiGroup, the latest in a group to be rescued from disaster.   It seems if it wasn’t for stimulus packages the economy would have no stimulation at all.   And of course President-elect Obamas has issued dire predictions for the coming year.   Happy New Year, everyone.
But this will turn around [...]

When Your Business Has a Tough Product to Market

It is not joke when your business creates a product or service that proves difficulty to market.   You sift thorugh dozens of different marketing strategies until you find the right one.   You find that there doesn’t seem to be a right one.   There are no easy catch phrases, slogans, or pieces of information that will [...]

How Laid Off Journalists Can Rebrand Themselves

For several blog pieces now I have taken note of the slaughter in the media industry.   The news industry, especially, has been decimated by layoffs and publication failures.   For every media group, it seems, laying off a thousand employees or more is only a start in the cost cutting.   Marty Pompadur, the exiting Chairman of [...]

In Bad Economic Times Buy Up Your Competition

These are rotten times, economically speaking.  In fact, there may be a couple of reasons to point to this being rotten times on a lot of levels.  I’e never been known for my rosy outlook, but I do look at these times as quite exciting.  Despite the economical downturn, in fact even because of it, [...]

What the Big Three Means to US Bottom Line

It is debatable whether the Big Three still make crummy cars.    In fact, while their reputation for making lousy vehicles hangs over them like the dark smoke of Los Angeles canyon fires, they do in fact make some pretty decent vehicles.   Some.   Not all. Far from it.
The Big three also make decent trucks.   And when [...]

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