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Charles Marohn, president of the nonprofit Strong Towns, stopped by Windsor Heights Community Center this morning at the invitation of the Urban Land Institute Iowa. His message: Wide roads can be bad for business.
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My friend K.C. was walking west on Grand Avenue near 44th Street when we met one day last week. It was right after Jeb Bush and Donald Trump had announced for president, and K.C. was …
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 …
We seem to be in a marketing era that rewards straightforward, cut-to-the-chase marketing and sales tactics. The recession taught us that consumers were leery of any hyperbole or inflated promises, so marketers let the pendulum …
Growth Leader As American Enterprise Group completes its downtown renovation, it has recruited a new president and CEO to expand its insurance business.
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Thomas Swank was hired as CEO of American Enterprise Group Inc. after a national search; he began in that position in April. He succeeds Mike Abbott, who is transitioning to the role of executive chairman …
Seabee Cylinders and Chrome came to ISU and asked for assistance in looking at functional characteristics of a cylinder and determining how to optimize those operating parameters and finding methods to theoretically determine …
Editor’s note Before all of our Power Breakfast events, we invite the panelists to the Business Record office for a pre-event meeting to prepare for possible topics. We always leave that meeting wishing we could …
Building communities within communities seems to be all the rage in Greater Des Moines, with an early effort rapidly developing in Ankeny.
Prairie Trail, the 1,037-acre mixed-use development that spreads northwest of Oralabor Road …
Iowa State University labor economist Peter Orazem said he isn’t worried about the latest national report showing Iowa dead last in the country in terms of personal income growth. And Greater Des Moines business leaders …
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