Jim Kendall
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Landing a marquee account: Your reputation is keyDec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - Search out the client list at CTCreative, Inc., a St. Charles strategic marketing company, and you'll find, among others, the Indianapolis Colts, two divisions of global...
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Economist sees small business opportunities aheadNov 25, 2009 10:00 pm - Here's a rare nugget of better news: Economist Diane Swonk sees opportunities for small business in 2010. Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial, a Chicago-headquar...
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Picture your business as a college case studyNov 11, 2009 10:00 pm - Maybe you should take your business to college, at least to something resembling the business case study class Aurora Reinke teaches at Chicago's Kendall College (sadly,...
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Holiday reservations could signal restaurant upturnNov 04, 2009 10:00 pm - Izzy Kharasch is hoping the phones start ringing. President of Hospitality Works Inc., a Deerfield-based restaurant consultancy, Kharasch thinks ringing phones could mea...
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It may be time to give your accountant a listenOct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - You should talk to your accountant - assuming, of course, that your accountant does more for your business than simply add columns of numbers. In fact, you probably shou...
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'Nudge' helps school lunch business deliverOct 14, 2009 11:00 pm - If there's a small-business plus to the recession, Harriet Parker thinks it may be that the economy "has opened people up to thinking more creatively about how to work t...
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Some advice for small businesses who may face fluOct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - It could be we're so busy planning for the recovery, we just haven't gotten around to wondering what might happen if, say, a chunk of the staff went down with the flu. O...
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Plan your marketing comeback before full recoverySep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - I'm making two assumptions: 1) A recovery is reasonably close. 2) You'll have to step-up your marketing to get your business back on track. But before you gussy up a new...
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Fed says recession is over; survey says. . .Sep 16, 2009 11:00 pm - The Fed has pretty much said the recession is over. But a small group of suburban business owners - readers of my Business Owners' Blog newsletter who responded last wee...
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Change: Not always easy, sometimes necessarySep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Back in the '70s, O'Brien Brothers Business Forms, Inc., was perking along, selling and producing the multi-part business forms - bills of lading, for example - that ate...