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Group Therapy by Lou Lasday

It's tough to maintain customer intimacy, but more and more companies are doing it with customer advisory boards.

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  • September 9, 2005
Why Housing is So Costly by: Thomas Sowell

They say time is money, but a lot depends on whose time and whose money. For example, the San Mateo County Planning Commission in California has spent five years deciding what can and cannot be done with the site of an old racetrack no longer economically viable.

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  • August 12, 2005
Share of Customer by: Lou Lasday

Gaining market share is the old way of thinking and operating. The new paradigm says you should try to filla greater share of your customers' needs.

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  • June 24, 2005
Twixters and Kippers By Lou Lasday

First we had the empty-nesters, then the Boomers and X-gen. Now there's a new market segment - the betwixed and between.

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  • June 17, 2005
LEGISLATIVE Negligence By: Alan Zirkelbach

Florida's shortage of skilled technical labor is fast approaching a crisis level. Unfortunately, the Legislature failed to address the problem in the last session. At least $100 million is needed.

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  • June 13, 2005
Spend Wisely; Target Prospects by Lou Lasday

The hottest business trend is the miniaturization of strategic marketing initiatives.

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  • May 13, 2005
What Will Your Customers Need? By: Lou Lasday

Ask and answer these four questions to be able to predict the direction of future profits in your company.

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  • April 15, 2005
Downtown Center vs. Fairgrounds? By: Matt Walsh

It's not either or. Do them both. Listen to Paddy Kelly. Let's also take a vote.

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  • April 8, 2005
Impact Fee Fight

The Bennett-Clark bill misses the bigger picture: the efficacy of impact fees to begin with. By: Matt Walsh

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  • Adam Hughes
  • April 8, 2005
How to Become a 'Benchmark' Firm

Start with the customer 'experience.' By: Lou Lasday

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  • Adam Hughes
  • March 18, 2005
Ignite a Customer Explosion

Columnist Lou Lasday:Introduce the 'wow' factor into your 2005 business plan.

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  • Adam Hughes
  • March 11, 2005
Contractor vs. Employee By Kenneth Starr

You should know the subtleties between the two. The differences could cost you a bundle.

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  • February 25, 2005
We Should Strive to be 'Aspirational'

The Manatee County superintendent of schools, Roger Dearing, complained to one of our sister papers, The East County Observer, recently: "Manatee County is going to be so overbuilt and under-serviced, it's not going to be a place to live."

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  • February 11, 2005
Manager: Know Thy Self

Great marketing managers develop great marketers.

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  • February 11, 2005
Gallagher Grandstands Again

Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher officially began his campaign for governor last week.

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