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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

When You Are Shopping for Background Checks, Call Us

All right, since so many of you are shopping for better pricing for your preemployment background checks and preemployment screening services, I thought it is time to post an unabashed plug for Corra Group.
Where once upon a time, like a year or two ago, seems like ancient history now, most of your had contracted for [...]

Is Your Human Resource Manager Screening Out the Sex Offenders?

Okay, so you have a teacher who allegedly threatened the stepfather of a a former student with a gun.  It was later discovered by Los Angeles Detectives that the teacher may have had sex with an underage student.  Whether it is confirmed or not, it would stand to reason the gun charge resulted from an [...]

Voting Day and Employment Prospects Post-Election

It was voting day.   The stock market was up over 300 points and the world markets showed some gains as well.  Americans were cautiously optimistic.  More thought it as the end of some beginning, rather than the beginning of some end.   A cycle may well be over.
So with the elections out of the way, what [...]

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