Archive for May 2006

Last week, we talked about how precious a client’s trust is to a business and how to avoid losing it. But what if something happens that puts you on shaky ground with your customer? Let’s …

Business Publications Corporation, publisher of the Business Record, dsm and Intro magazines, has exciting opportunities for freelance  photographers. As a freelance photographer, you will assume the responsibilities of our staff  photographer as needed during day, evening and/or …

Barbara Quijano Decker learned the importance of hard work and education at an early age. Because her parents did not graduate from high school, they encouraged their seven children to get as much education as …

Dear Mr. Berko:

After working for 44 years, I’ve decided to retire at age 66. My two company retirement plans are worth $516,000.

A broker who works for one of the largest Wall Street stock …

  A good friend gave me a book about building your business through referrals. The author believes “the best marketing strategy is to be referable.” He is correct. He writes, “Referability means that your very best …

Since moving to Des Moines from a large urban setting seven years ago, I have enjoyed living in this community for its friendly people, sense of security, the “just right” pace of life, short commutes …

One day Yasser Arafat’s widow sent an e-mail, asking for my help in a financial matter. So that took some time to sort out.

But it’s not the demands placed by individual pieces of e-mail …

A few years ago, one of Maytag Corp.’s media relations folks sent us a bobblehead figurine of Ol’ Lonely, the fabled Maytag repairman who was the Newton-based manufacturer’s symbol of dependability for more than 25 …

How much risk are Iowans willing to accept to make venture capital more accessible to start-up companies in the state? And how much do Iowans really understand about how venture capital works?

A recent audit …

After more than two decades of collecting a 1 percent local option sales tax, Polk City could lose about two-thirds of that annual revenue to a regional plan that would redistribute a portion of the …