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McLellan: Know more to sell more

I know very few businesses that aren’t looking for additional sales. Ninety-nine percent of the time, those businesses identify potential customers and then woo them until they either buy something, tell them to go away …

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REG smells success

REG, the Ames-based company that spun off of a biofuels venture at West Central Cooperative in Ralston, has its eyes on much more than biodiesel now. 

The company wants to use natural feedstocks to produce …

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A Closer Look: Eileen Wixted

Public relations professional Eileen Wixted is marking her 25th anniversary of helping to craft messaging for nuclear plants, agricultural organizations and hospitals. 

Sometimes she gets the call for help after a crisis. Increasingly, she’s also …

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Cultivating Iowa’s growth in bio-based plastics

Plastics are integral and ubiquitous in our everyday lives, from the interiors of our vehicles to our cellphones to the packaging for the products we purchase. Surprisingly, few plastics yet are  made with renewable materials …

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An age-friendly state of mind

If your business was evaluated for how well it accommodates customers of any age — but particularly seniors — how well would it do? 

It’s a question that the owners of several popular downtown bars …

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Business Record 8-7-15

An age-friendly state of mind
Greater Des Moines leaders collaborate to make the region more livable for its growing older population

Focus: Biotechnology

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Andrea Hauer: ‘Lucky to have her’


To Andrea Hauer, Watson Powell Jr. Parkway in downtown Des Moines would forever be Keosauqua Way. That’s the way it was in the long ago, and for Hauer, who helped plan for the future of …

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Urbandale wants to know where it’s going and what it will look like when it gets there

   

 

In late August, the city of Urbandale plans to take an introspective look at itself as a way of getting a handle on its future development.

 

The project was triggered by Eric …

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The Elbert Files: Class of 1965 still searching

My Ames High School Class of 1965 is having a 50-year reunion this fall, and many of us are trying to decide what our place in history will be.

Nobody talks about it much anymore, …

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Gitomer: Your missing power: Master Mind

Perhaps the most powerful principle Napoleon Hill wrote about, and certainly the most enduring, is the ninth step towards riches: Power of the Master Mind. The idea of a Master Mind group was created, put …

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