Archive for July 2004
Competing with the business basics of price, quality and relationships
She knows the old adage that big business likes to do business with other big businesses, but from the success of Lauri A. Weissenburger’s small business, she knows that isn’t true when budgets are tight.…
Read MoreDice not leaving its future up to chance
Free of the heavy debt that led the company to file for bankruptcy protection last year, Dice Inc. is restructured and showing steady growth, according to the president of the Urbandale-based company.
At Dice, the …
Science Center on schedule to draw thousands downtown
The seating supports are in place inside the big IMAX theater, and workers are starting to close in the exterior walls as construction continues on the Science Center of Iowa downtown between Southwest Third and …
Read MoreHooked on gambling and wanting more
It’s just so tempting, isn’t it?
Important, successful people and companies want to build another casino in Greater Des Moines, so it must be a good idea, right?
Additional gambling seems guaranteed to pour profits …
Small county reluctantly gives up its distinction
They don’t abandon traditions easily in Van Buren County, where miles of rolling hills remain undisturbed by development, life moves at a slower pace and remnants of the past are still very much in evidence …
Read MoreCompanies can benefit from their ‘sages’
Americans are obsessed with aging. But how many think about “sage-ing”? Though aging is inevitable, there is a difference between getting older and becoming a sage. According to Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, author of “From Age-ing to …
Read MoreGreat ways to tap into dependable dividends
Dear Mr. Berko:
Dow Jones has a group of about 50 stocks in its dividend index on which they maintain specific prices and keep daily tabs, sort of like the Dow Jones 30 industrials. According …
Manufacture sales with factory tours for prospects
Want to double your sales? OK, here goes…
As I was holding court at Einstein’s Bagels one morning, my friend Gary sat down and started to tell me about taking a big customer on a …
Brandl shows an ongoing commitment to the windmill
Visitors to the Dutch windmill in Pella are surprised to learn that the man giving the Saturday tours and demonstrations of how the mill works is the CEO of a technology company, but to Jim …
Read MoreAnderson pursues another school of study after M.B.A. and law
Deb Anderson has a vast willingness to learn. Just as she studied Spanish in her early days of college, she is now absorbing another area with its own systems and language: county government.
Anderson is …