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Create Advocates, Add to Bottom Line

Loyal customers spend more, cost less and allow high profit.

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  • November 12, 2004
Prepare for War

Lou Lasday: Motivate your attack force. Take aim and help them move out.

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  • October 22, 2004
Act Like Act Lke Founding Fathers

Sarasota Countyis fixes for the affordable housing problem has more of problems than solutions and has the possibilty of creating widder ranging troubles than the original issue.

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  • October 22, 2004
Punishment for the Poor

Minimum-wage laws and pro-union legislation do much more harm than good. They create poverty. Hereis why.

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  • October 15, 2004
10 Difficult Steps to More Housing

Sarasota and Monterey County, Calif., face similar affordable housing problems and solutions.

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  • October 8, 2004
Affordable Housing: Not a Problem

Editor Matt Walsh discusses the affordable housing problem and why its an issue for the market not government.

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  • September 24, 2004
Deciphering the Attribute Index

What is the key to successful business excellence? asks Stephen Garber, who lives and works in the Sarasota area, provides executive coaching for individuals and organizations to enable them to select, retain and develop performance champions.

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  • September 17, 2004
Should builders be blamed

The construction industry is often blamed for growth. Fact is, it's the third largest employer in the region.

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  • September 10, 2004
University Corridor:Big Dream, Bigger Obstacles

Dear YPGers, Keep dreaming. And keep the chatter going. Something good will come of it. But this idea of creating an exciting university corridor between the Ringling School of Art & Design and the USF/New College campuses is a far-far-fetched dream

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  • August 27, 2004
The Erosion of Freedom

The politicians who run Santa Monica have simply decided that people should not be able to build a high wall of hedges around themselves. Thomas Sowel is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and is an author of several books

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  • August 13, 2004
Right Employee, Wrong Slot

Lou Lasday, an independent marketing adviser who resides on Longboat Key, discusses making smart employee choices.

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  • August 6, 2004
Art, Heart & the Future

How automation and globalization are changing our world.

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  • July 23, 2004
Effective Communication Needed

Doctors need to understand what successful 'salespeople' know: People are more likely to buy from 'salespeople' with behavioral styles similar to their own.

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  • July 15, 2004
Affordable housing land trust: Flawed scheme

Affordable housing. That's the political motherhood-and-apple-pie issue these days. And yet, as demonstrated with SMR and 2050, the social engineers can't seem to grasp the consequences of limiting supply when demand is huge.

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  • July 9, 2004
A Risky Market - Going Nowhere

The stock market remains overvalued and in a position where the average investor could get hurt again as badly as he did in 2000. George Rauch is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.

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