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Article #173: Displaced and Retired Executives Put Experience to Work in Lucrative New Careers

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Mesa, AZ - With job cuts by major critical experience to their competitors.
employers exceeding more than half a "On the other hand," continues Howey,
million in the first six months of this "for the person who wants to escape the
year, workers on all levels are feeling corporate rat race and start a business
the squeeze. "Its no longer business as of their own where they can use their
usual," says Martin Howey, CEO of TopLine experience consulting with other
Business Solutions, a Phoenix-based businesses, the time has never been
consultancy training firm. better. Small and medium size businesses
"The days where an experienced or are struggling with the same issues as
highly-trained, highly-compensated the big companies, but they cant cut jobs
executive can lose his or her job one day in order to cope. Instead, smaller
and land an equal or better job within a businesses have no choice but to turn
reasonable time are rapidly vanishing, their efforts to growing their
and its causing personal and family businesses, generating more revenue, and
stress and financial concerns for a operating at their optimal capacity and
valuable segment of the U.S. workforce. efficiency.
But forward thinking executives are "Massive layoffs and cutbacks are rapidly
quickly turning these negatives into filling the market with people who have
better lifestyles, and in some cases, the basic knowledge and skill of how to
small fortunes for themselves, their help struggling businesses, but most lack
families, and their newfound clients." effective marketing and implementation
Last month alone (June 2005), U.S. systems. With the right tools and systems
corporations announced plans to eliminate in the right hands, high six-figure
110,996 jobs, and the numbers for July incomes working less than 30 hours a week
could be higher, making the outlook for are very doable."
executive re-employment for the remaining Howey, a 38-year veteran of corporate
months of this year even more dismal. consulting, founded TopLine Business
"On one hand, its a sad situation," said Solutions two years ago, after creating a
Howey, whose firm specializes in helping similar European-based organization and
business executives become self-employed building it to a Certified Accountants
consultants. "Its sad that executives Valuation of $12.4 million in only 6
with so much valuable experience are months. TopLines more than 200 associates
being displaced and their families and undergo a week-long intensive training
their financial futures are being program that includes client acquisition,
negatively affected. Its an equally sad identifying areas of opportunity, and
situation for American businesses who creating and implementing corrective
have come to depend on this experience to solutions and productivity systems.
build their successful enterprises, but TopLines associates operate under a
are no longer in a position to take fee-based licensing arrangement and pay
advantage of it and may be losing that no ongoing support fees or royalties.






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