Business Columns
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Weber's first app can help you grill outJul 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Palatine-based Weber-Stephen Products Co., maker of the Weber grill, has debuted its first wireless phone application, with recipes, that allows you to transfer the food...
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Readers advise startup wannabeJul 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Charles Evans, the newly unemployed engineer who has been thinking about starting his own business, received lots of truly good advice from readers of both this column a...
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MailboxMan has solution for anchoring roadside boxesJul 27, 2009 11:00 pm - When Scotty Joe Stastny lost his job as a national account executive for a food company, he took some handyman-type jobs that sparked a new business plan. While Stastny...
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More Web sites to offer comparison shopping for trips, tickets and moreJul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Move over, Priceline negotiator. TripFit.com, which launched this week, lets consumers take control of several travel Web sites at one time to search for the best p...
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Handling the choice to find a job or start a businessJul 22, 2009 11:00 pm - This is Charles Evans' anniversary. He was riffed exactly one month ago. Whether sympathy cards or congratulations are appropriate remains an open question. Evans, a rea...
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Tangerine Cafe fires it up in downtown NapervilleJul 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Tangerine Cafe, a contemporary breakfast and lunch establishment, recently opened in downtown Naperville. The restaurant at 47 E. Chicago Ave. features traditional menu ...
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Splash Dogs Inc. in Des Plaines helps dogs healJul 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Jill Morgenthaler was torn over whether Bert, her 10-year-old Labrador mix, should undergo surgery to repair an injured knee and hip. The Des Plaines woman, not thrille...
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Barrington's Excalibur Technology plans expansionJul 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Barrington-based Excalibur Technology Corp. (www.excaltech.com), which provides network, Internet and Web services to businesses, is expanding. The company recently open...
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Building sales may require trust firstJul 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Maybe, as the recession lumbers on, you should follow Chuck Thomas' lead and focus your marketing on building trust, with some trust of your own that sales will follow. ...
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Phones call electrician to new business ventureJul 14, 2009 11:00 pm - When Don Zittman's 30-year-old electrical contracting business continued to struggle, he knew he had to find another way to pay the bills. Zittman watched his customer b...