Sprint Nextel announced today that they will be cutting 8,000 jobs during this first quarter in an effort to eliminate costs of $1.2 billion (yes that is with a “b”). That’s an average salary for those 8,000 employees being cut of $150,000. That seems like a pretty high figure to me as I’m assuming many […]
You know, I am no longer amazed at the number of off line businesses going under these days, IMO, I think some probably deserve to be going under and here’s my rant why. They would like to blame it on the bad economy, but in some cases I think they need to take a look […]
Yahoo confirmed today that a full scale salary freeze has been put in place due to the less-than-stellar performance of Yahoo over the last year (err 8 years since their stock reached its high in 2001), and of course the recession that is simply killing off one company after another. This isn’t really shocking news, […]
In an economy such as today’s, many tech companies are hurting and looking for ways to cut costs to maintain profits. Microsoft, Intel, and EBay all announced sad news today. You can find a quick summary below with links to the full stories. Microsoft Microsoft announced today that they will be cutting 5,000 jobs over […]
Yesterday I spent a few hours with a good friend of mine, Dave, that is an electrician in the Salt Lake City Utah area. He has been in this industry all of his career, but within the last few years he has started his own company and is doing contractor electrical work, along with all […]
For the first time ever – The Arizona Cardinals are going to the Superbowl! I am so proud of this team for not giving up, and for the fans NEVER losing faith that they would make it! I just had a feeling that they would do it after the Seattle game. It was like they […]
Phoenix Suns fan My close friends know that I have always been a big Phoenix Suns fan. It is hard not to like an organization that consistently puts a winning team on the floor and has always had some of the most likable guys in the league: Kevin Johnson, “Thunder” Dan Majerle, Jeff “Horny” Hornacek, […]
Last night, DSM had the unfortunate experience of learning that an independent contractor we were using for content creation was allegedly pirating other writers work. This incident has caused me to spend some time training the DSM staff as to what they can do to both prevent copyright violations and to police intellectual property use […]
I received the following question from “Terry” yesterday about the time one needed to spend with social media in order to make it do anything for you business wise. Do I have to spend a lot of time maintaining my profile on these sites? Is that very time-consuming? What is the best way for me […]
When building a new website, or rebuilding an old website, you’ll want to try and establish your brand so that you can be identified as unique in your market. Doing this is not always easy, and depending on your market it can be very difficult. Whenever I’m involved in a build or brand project I […]
