Business Columns
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Motorola survey finds you're viewing more video in different waysMar 20, 2013 11:00 pm - Libertyville-based Motorola Mobility's fourth annual Media Engagement Barometer said that consumers are watching more video on their smartphones, tablets and laptops and...
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Shoe Carnival comes to South ElginMar 18, 2013 10:49 am - A new shoe store has joined the Randall Road corridor. Shoe Carnival now is open in South Elgin at 354 Randall Road in South Elgin. The store opened earlier this month i...
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Entrepreneurial spirit drives business networking guruMar 18, 2013 6:00 am - Shalom Klein, who was born in Vernon Hills, assumed he would join his family’s accounting firm, Moshe Klein & Associates Ltd. in Chicago and Skokie, at some point. But ...
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Trade show success requires a planMar 18, 2013 6:00 am - There’s more to exhibiting at a convention or trade show than plunking a booth down on your 10-by-10-space — if you want the exhibit experience to be a good one. With bu...
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When stress tears leak out at the officeMar 17, 2013 6:33 am - Q: I’m a middle manager at a company in turmoil. Lately, I have been getting contradictory directives from top management, while getting no cooperation from other manage...
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What to do with the world’s fastest Internet serviceMar 16, 2013 7:32 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — One afternoon in January, I went to visit some Google employees who’d offered to show me one of the company’s latest and greatest innovations. This i...
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Suburban computer forensics team sifts through scamsMar 15, 2013 11:13 am - When a young employee of iRobot left the company known for the Roomba self-traveling vacuum, a competing product soon hit the market. After a period of surveillance, the...
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Kriser's born out of love for petsMar 11, 2013 5:00 am - There were pets in Highland Park native Brad Kriser's home since he was a newborn and his family owned a poodle named Coco. It seems natural now that he's married with f...
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Small businesses should be tracking their own sales trendsMar 11, 2013 4:30 am - With the likelihood that most small businesses “have their sales work cut out for them,” Keith Seebeck says business owners should “put a sales system in place so they c...
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Work advice: Don’t hate me because i’m a motherMar 10, 2013 6:12 am - Special to The Washington Post Karla L. Miller writes an advice column on navigating the modern workplace. Each week she will answer one or two questions from readers. Q...