With the last few months seeing an upsurge in the unemployment rate, it may be a good time to think about the vast number of employable people out there who could very well fill in what you need, given the right training.
The Chicago Tribune reports that a local company, Extended Care Clinical, is tapping the growing unemployed to fill in their much-needed nursing vacancies for interested folks who can still be trained to become company nurses.
This development had me thinking that this could very well be followed in other industries. I am sure there are many who will welcome this opportunity to be re-trained even at a lower salary base. That’s a lot better than remaining among the ranks of the unemployed.
And it works both ways, as companies can consider them as fresh hires getting paid entry-level or on-the-job training salaries while learning to get the right skills for their new careers. Like starting fresh. I hope companies take advantage of this golden opportunity.
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You may or may not agree with me on this, but some websites do get on my nerves. Perhaps you’re not as busy as I am and take time as leisurely as you can. But in the information age, it’s always heaven-sent to get what you need as efficiently as possible. That means fast. Here are some of my pet peeves on a retailer’s website:
- Your homepage is too slow to download. I’m sure you’re proud about the nifty Flash page that you had designed for your portal. But if it takes more than 10 seconds to load, that’s an eternity for me and I’ll just go to another site.
- Where’s your contact information? I want to see it right away. It should be on the home page that’s readily accessible or clickable. No phone? That makes me think your business only has you and your classmate on a single laptop in a garage.
- Who are you? Tell me about your company. That’s what “About Us” page is for. And don’t give me anecdotal paragraphs but just the basics, like where are you based, your founder and what you specialize or offer best and maybe a bit of history if you have one. Nothing more than 500 words please.
- Don’t make me think! Everything should be as easy as possible.
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If you do, you can no longer avail of some incentives like availing loans from the Small Business Administration. Well, cheer up, SBA is proposing to increase the size limits it had earlier defined for small businesses since 1984. That means small companies that have grown bigger can remain qualified for low interest SBA loans and other federal aids for small enterprises.
This can be good for the growing business but it can limit the availability of funds to start-ups and the small merchants who are the most in need for hard-to-get capital these days.
“Personally, I tend to be skeptical about it and prefer to remain with a one standard size for what it means to be small across all industries and not tinker with it from time to time. ” says Låna Pengar Guiden
If you have an opinion on this, visit www.regulations.gov, or email sizestandards@sba.gov to vent your voice but only until Dec 21st.
Or did the short term loan really go away with all this turbulens? I’m just amazed how such a business model can work in the long run. It’s obvious that it works very good, the companies are making tons of money and as far as I know, not many has gone bankrupt. All the bigger ones are still there, way better then on the bank-side. Quite fun as they traditional banks has always looked down on these companies. Sources: Short Term Loan & short term cash loans.
What do you think?
Credit Card companies can earn more if they didn’t require small business to pay credit card fees for every charge transaction from their customers. The problem is that most fees eat whatever profits small retailers have on some products. And the effort having to pay at certain cutoff days on the month just doesn’t add any value to the enterprise.
Focus Brands VP for IT Todd Michaud just made an interesting proposition to get rid of this practice with a disruptive new business model for credit card business in an article posted at the retail cum techie commerce site Storefront Backtalk.
Michaud suggests that sponsors ads can turn every credit card transaction into a marketing opportunity and pay ad fees. Card companies can sell ad space on their charge receipts and card signing pads. In short, advertising fees on a flat rate per month can take over merchant fees. Curious, if that will ever sail, but it look quite feasible. What do you think?
After all the bad it has done to the consumer, corporate America and to the country in general, some analyst are pointing to the good that this economic turmoil is leaving in its wake.
The days of bumming around the office with little to do and having more time chatting with your officemates are over. Businesses large and small are now pretty much aware that productivity can be optimized if you really need to as what the economic recession has brought us to do.
Less workforce, lower operating costs, lower payroll, and smaller office space giving business the same products and services.
You have the tools, the internet, email, fax, the laptop and even Cell phones to keep you working while on the road and at home – all these is re-inventing the way business is thriving. If corporate America survives this economic glut, it has a very good lesson it won’t ever forget – when push comes to shove, you can do more with less.
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A research study conducted by computer giant IBM taken from 2,400 respondents reveals a stark trend that may soon drastically alter the way businesses get their products advertised.
The forecast hinges on three major trends.
First is the fact that consumers are increasingly gaining more control with marketing messages they come across, interacting and filtering them out in most cases.
Second, creativity gets democratized with peer=sharing sites like Facebook, YouTube and other social networking sites where amateurs can create their own ads to make advertising agencies a dinosaur.
Lastly, with Pay-Per-Click online advertising, there’s more measurability and results-orientation in advertising giving traditional advertising media in TV more pressure to show its usefulness.
As this seems inevitable, the study suggests a re-thing of advertising strategies with a more personalized and customized to specific market groups, like holding contests or sponsorships of localized events.
The challenge really is how you would make consumers notice your ads with so many other ads compete for their attention is increasingly smaller time windows and attention spans. Think about it.
There are no age barriers for the entrepreneur of the 21st century. Businesses can start to thrive while you’re in the campus. Think Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Think real-estate brokerage firm Hodara Real Estate and its student founder Alex Hodara. And they’re getting younger. Think T.O. Student Tutoring and Matt Rhodes who founded it while still in high school.
It’s often the case that school career centers focus on getting their students to land decent jobs in corporate America. These days, you now have entrepreneurship centers along with career centers that help a small but growing number of students take their first steps to starting their own businesses.
The Miami University’s Toppel Career Center has done this with its Launch Pad that started in September 2008 and has seen 20 new companies launched by its students. Not bad, maybe other universities can follow suit to identify budding new entrepreneurs among their students.
I’ve always wondered when the snail mail traditional post office will end in the age of the internet and emails. Perhaps not very soon as there is the dreaded paper trail that needs to get placed from time to time. But if upstart Zumbox can have its way, that too will end.
Zumbox is making a new mailing technology that creates a computer inbox, or Zumbox, corresponding to street addresses throughout the nation. People and companies need not bother with email addresses as a street address is enough to deliver electronically any kind of mail. Imagine the savings on postage stamps.
Presumably, there’d be a Zumbox website where just clicking your address shows all your incoming mails that you can download. Neat, right? Wait till the US Postal Office get their hands on the technology and you could be slapped with access fees every time you log onto the site equal to a postage stamp cost. What do you think?
Watching the HBO documentary Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags retelling the rise of New York’s garment industry at the hands of entrepreneurial Italian and Jewish immigrant workers during the turn of the 20th century, one can’t help but wonder what tomorrow might look like with the current realities in Corporate America.
Outsourcing jobs to cheap labor overseas has never been more appealing to many industries struggling to keep profits up. These are usually unskilled jobs that help build middle –class America to comfortable economic levels starting in the 50s up late 90s. This is now pretty much in danger of getting eroded with outsourcing and factory closures and relocation to cheaper, non-unionized locales, here and abroad.
There are some encouraging developments though. You have American Apparel making clothes right here and becoming a commercial success amidst a flood of cheap imported clothes from China, Brazil and Southeast Asia.
It looks like we’re seeing a resurgence of entrepreneurs that’s reviving the “Made In the USA” consciousness a relevant message to present and future businessmen. Let’s hope this becomes a trend and not just a one-time fluke.
