10 things that won’t survive the recession

Tight times, and budgets, will hasten the end for some things

I recieved this in an email this week and I think it is well said……..

The government says we’ve been in a recession for the past year. Experts say it’ll be at least another year before it’s over. And everybody says it’s the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Nice sound bite. What does that mean?

Who knows? We can be sure that this downturn will differ totally from the Depression, and also different from the many recessions we’ve suffered every decade or every other decade since the ’30s. I’m not an economist or a historian, but it seems to me that this recession will be something unprecedented.

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I had a really good time at the Holiday Party this past Monday. Good Food, Good People, Good Friends! What more could you ask for.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to everyone..

Well we all made it through another year. Some of us by the skin of our teeth. I have talked to a lot of business owners who are ready to hang it up. Lets face it a lot of things went wrong this year, AIG, Citibank, Wachovia, the real estate market dried up, gas was $4.00 a gallon, Fanny Mae, Freddi Mac, GM, Chrysler, (more…)

  At our meetings I was happy to see some great questions surrounding business compliance.

  There always seems to be confusion regarding what needs to be done and how often you need to do things to stay compliant.

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Backup, Backup and Backup.. Lately I have had a lot of calls on crashed computers from friends and members of the group. 5 in the last 6 weeks, I handled 4 of them. On one of them I was able to recover the data for the owner as the crash was probably due to a bad sector on the drive where the operating system resides. Another the disk was so infected with mal-ware and virus’s that I would not connect it to my system to recover data just format over it. The other two were hard disk mechanical failure leading to no data recovery. What do all of these computer users have in common….. No Backup!!

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