Driving Profits
Trucking company expands to West Sacramento
In a year of job loss and company closures, Scott Blevins’ freight business is expanding, hiring and hauling in the cash.
Whistle While You Work
Keeping employees motivated through doldrums
The past couple years have been brutal on workers: furloughs, salary freezes, layoffs and budget cuts. It’s enough to give the most loyal employee a case of the business blahs and a sense of restlessness as the recession lifts.
Cracks in the Crystal Ball
Business forecast spending and investments in 2011
Let the economists make all the predictions they like about 2011. It’s the businesses of California that have their budgets on the line.
Intoxicating Career
Entrepreneurs craft beverages at home
Michael Frenn was a committed Coors Light drinker. For him, it was as American as baseball and apple pie.
Green Teach
Preparing workers for tomorrow's jobs
When Californians went to the polls on Nov. 2, they did more than just select a slate of new Capitol denizens. With the eyes of the world upon them, voters emphatically rejected Proposition 23, the oil industry-backed initiative to block Assembly Bill 32, the state’s groundbreaking effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Home Shopping Network
How the web is saving brick-and-mortar storefronts
While small specialty businesses in the Sacramento area are closing their doors in droves these days, Jon Holloway’s family-operated travel store is still sailing along, albeit in choppier waters.
Working Lunch with Matina Kolokotronis
Matina Kolokotronis was on maternity leave from a local law firm when she got the phone call that changed her career. The caller said: “Hello, this is Geoff Petrie with the Sacramento Kings. I understand that you’re Greek and that you’re a lawyer. We just drafted a Greek player by the name of Peja Stojakovic, and we need some help with his contract.”
Higher Learning
Executives head to the classroom
In an economy where company officials are making hard financial decisions, spending thousands of dollars on training might seem like an unnecessary expense.
Get Out
When outsourcing makes sense
With demand for cloud computing and virtual data storage on the rise, the job descriptions for technical support positions are dramatically changing.
Get Onto My Cloud
Moving to virtual space for software, storage and more
As a chief executive of a real estate and brokerage firm, Jason
Moulton faced some hard financial decisions in 2009.
Among the cost-saving measures Moulton implemented was to move
all operations to the clouds, or virtual, rather than physical
hardware and software.
As a chief executive of a real estate and brokerage firm, Jason Moulton faced some hard financial decisions in 2009.
Among the cost-saving measures Moulton implemented was to move all operations to the clouds, or virtual, rather than physical hardware and software.