JDM Client, Roxanna Oil, Awarded Sidney Powers Medal

Marlan Downey, Chairman of Roxanna Oil Company and client of JDM, recently won the prestigious Sidney Powers Award from the AAPG.


A big congratulations from all of us here at JDM!

You Can Afford to Interview

As job seekers have been told for months, the job market is a lagging indicator of a return to economic stability. For businesses looking toward 2010 optimistically, a there’s a catch-22 developing. They can’t afford to hire, but they need to hire to grow.

First off, I would argue they can afford to hire—just not in the same way they have in the past.

Consider reorganization of responsibilities to maximize do-ers and minimize redundant managers. Additionally, even if there just doesn’t currently exist a budget to hire, there is a budget to build a stable of qualified job applicants. That way, when the time and budget are right, you can pull the trigger while your competition is still placing expensive ads on job boards.

Building this stable of qualified job applicants isn’t expensive or particularly complicated. The process involves developing an online Careers Section, application qualification, and developing new hiring practices.

When developing an online Careers Section, consider incorporating:

• The Story and Vision of your business
• Employee Testimonials
• Hiring Policies
• Corporate Organization
• Opportunities for Advancement
• Current Team Profiles

Since rolling out JDM’s Careers Page 3 months ago:

• It has risen to our third most popular web page;
• We have received over 70 qualified applicants for just 5 open positions;
• and we didn’t pay a penny in advertising.

If your business is in a similar HR catch-22, consider that even if you can’t afford to hire—you certainly can’t afford not to try.

Looking for a little HR expertise? Check out these HR rock stars:

• HRAdvance – HR and Benefit Solutions
• Achilles Group – Outsourced Human Resource Management
• HRmarketer – If you’re marketing to HR decision makers, look no further.

All Storage Gets an All-New Website

JDM is proud to announce the completion of a new business-building website for our client, All Storage Arlington.

The new site features:

• Flash Animation Highlighting All Storage’s Value
• W3C Validated Markup
• Fresh, New Content
• Easy-Error Finding JavaScript on the Forms
• SEO Best Practices to Increase Page Rank and Search Engine Visibility

The goal with the new site was not to stray too far away from the core Brand, but rather graduate its design to the next level. JDM employed our creative and technical expertise to develop a site with fresh content, eye-catching, but simple design and industry-leading search engine optimization (SEO) practices for maximum search engine visibility and page rank.

Have a look for yourself at: http://www.AllStorageArlington.com.

About All Storage Arlington

Whether it’s a little spring cleaning or a big storage project, All Storage has the self-storage area you require. With over 40 rental unit sizes to choose from and the largest freight elevators in Texas, All Storage is the perfect self-storage company for all your storage needs.

Learn more about developing a website that generates business with our white paper,
“Easy Marketing :: The Business-Building Website.” A short registration is required.