Business Columns
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Hoffman entrepreneur raises bar with new non-alcoholic drink productApr 21, 2014 1:01 am - Adam Leja, 30, of Hoffman Estates is founder of the organic lemon drink, Lemonesse, which is bottled in Geneva. It took a serious car accident involving a drunken driver...
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Try selling your solution, not your productApr 21, 2014 1:00 am - Not quite random thoughts about small businesses: • Remember what you're selling, which for the more successful among us most often is a solution to a customer's p...
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E-cigarette store opens second location in AlgonquinApr 20, 2014 11:00 pm - Frank Angiulo says he's already helped thousands of people along the path to quitting smoking since he opened his first Vapor Hut store less than six months ago. After s...
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Career Coach: How to build trust at workApr 20, 2014 6:14 am - Go into many organizations and you might hear people say things like "I don't trust my co-workers to do what they say they will," "My boss can't be trusted to keep confi...
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Work advice: Music teacher's lost income not a minor issueApr 20, 2014 5:12 am - Q: I have been teaching piano for 13 years. It is my main source of income, and I love doing it. The problem is that every so often, one of my students quits with little...
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NoWait apps offer suburban restaurant guests a pager-free experienceApr 17, 2014 1:00 am - If you ever went to a busy restaurant, the hostess likely gave you a bulky pager that would flash and vibrate when your table was ready. You also would sit around, wonde...
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Motorola Solutions shrinks, while Zebra growsApr 15, 2014 1:01 am - Schaumburg-based Motorola Solutions Inc. continues to chip away at its legendary status by selling its Enterprise unit to Lincolnshire's Zebra Technologies for about $3....
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Business owner left behind Wall Street for Libertyville streetsApr 14, 2014 5:00 am - Bill Kaiser said he was once known as the Mini Wolf of Wall Street. He was a broker for 36 years, owning William S. Kaiser Corp. since 1978, which then morphed into Zap ...
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The Millennials are coming. Will we be ready?Apr 14, 2014 5:00 am - More than preceding generations, maybe even more than the Baby Boomers, Millennials will impact how we manage our businesses. Now between the ages of 18 and 33 and seem...
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Going to a Cruise Night? Here's what you need to knowApr 13, 2014 11:00 pm - When the summer sun is out, there are dozens of fine cruise nights and car shows to sample in the Chicago area. Few events can compare to the one-of-a-kind experience of...