Business Columns
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Use social, traditional media to deliver sales messageAug 19, 2013 5:30 am - To determine the best way to reach your customer base with a sales-marketing message, you really need to know how your targets respond to various types of media — and me...
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Max Armstrong gives tractor enthusiasts their own appAug 19, 2013 5:30 am - Fans likely are familiar with Max Armstrong as he co-hosts “This Week In AgriBusiness” on RFD-TV. He also helps host a weekly hourlong agriculture program on WGN Radio. ...
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How to handle moody bossesAug 18, 2013 6:54 am - Q: I work in a small division located away from company HQ. Three of us are in the office, not including my boss, and two employees work remotely. I avoid interacting wi...
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EcoATMs offer consumers chance to sell, recycle phonesAug 15, 2013 10:00 am - As the use of mobile phones, tablets and other devices continue to flourish, so will that junk drawer at home that's already filled with yesterday's favorites. What to d...
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Trendy Tots marks two years with party, food driveAug 14, 2013 1:30 pm - In its two years along the Randall Road corridor in Carpentersville, Trendy Tots Consignment shop has grown to become a part of the community. The store, at 7020 Huntle...
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Who will read the business book you’re writing?Aug 12, 2013 5:51 am - There are two reasons an entrepreneur should write a book. Ÿ Share information and experience with others in the small business community — an admirable, giveback appro...
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South Elgin executive a third-generation in plastics industryAug 12, 2013 5:00 am - When Gretchen Hoffer Farb worked as an accountant for a few years, she realized it wasn't the career she really wanted. So she approached her father, William Hoffer, pre...
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If anyone can save The Washington Post, it’s Jeff BezosAug 11, 2013 7:26 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — If I worked at The Washington Post — or even I just lived in Washington and yearned for the prosperity of my local paper — I’d be concerned about one...
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Work Advice: Potty clarity in the officeAug 11, 2013 6:49 am - Q: A longtime employee in our federal government office was “Bob” and now is “Barbara.” When it was time for Barbara to start living as a woman, she spent a year using a...
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Why Apple, Google are the best of enemiesAug 10, 2013 7:26 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Last week my colleague Matt Yglesias and I took turns playing out a fantastical 10-part shooting war between Apple and Google. We had fun doing it, a...