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Strategies

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 13, 2007
How to Sell Yourself

Forget the Internet and help wanted ads, a career adviser says. Expand your network to hear about the best jobs and learn how to sell yourself.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
'Capitalism at Its Finest'

Small- and medium-size companies are benefiting from increased competition among Tampa Bay area banks for their business now that the housing market has slowed.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
Lending Lessons

Loan loss reserve portfolios are increasing up and down the Gulf Coast, and for good reason: Banks don't want to be left without a seat when the real estate music stops.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
Regional Expansion

Regions Financial is focused on merging with AmSouth Bancorporation, but expect the bank to grow aggressively in Southwest Florida when that's done.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
'Best Year Ever'

Rising interest rates boosted income at Bank of Tampa, which had as much as 36% of its deposits in checking accounts in 2006. As for real estate loans, the bank has a lower percentage than other community banks.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
Free to Grow?

There's no such thing as quiet expansion in the heavily regulated - and highly competitive - Gulf Coast banking industry.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
The Big Picture

Jerry Pearson, Florida chief investment officer at Fifth Third Bank Investment Advisors, considers the broad economic themes before making his investment picks. It might make you think differently about your portfolio.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
Affordable housing comes with strings

Developer asks city of Sarasota to partially fund affordable housing units. At the top end, he is asking for $250,000 in tax increment financing for each unit to be built.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
Young Quest

Two twenty-somethings are building a medical-manufacturing business. They aim to build it slowly to avoid costly mistakes.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2007
Corporate Report

Amscot hits 150 stores, CEO plans to continue to growMichigan's Wireless Toyz buys Beepers 'N PhonesGeneral Dynamics Ordnance gets contract for target practice ammoTaylor Woodrow merges Towers, starts new acquisitions strategy Bank of Florida Corp. closer to Old Florida acquisitionPilger made Mathews CFONicholas Financial bumps credit line $10 million

  • Industries
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 30, 2007
The Buying Experience

Making the car-buying process easier for buyers and sellers sounds like an impossible dream. But a pair of marketing gurus is doing it anyway, creating a profitable business in the process.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 30, 2007
The anchor holds

A boat repairman mortgages his home to pay the patent costs on an anchor designed to replace the same old style that has been around for centuries. Hunter Anchors might be coming to a store near you soon.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 30, 2007
Painful Pullback

Cutting employees will never be pleasant. But take it from a CEO who did it twice in eight months: Be prepared.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 30, 2007
Nice on the Ice

NHL hockey coach learned to supervise with positives and yelling moments that were few and strategic.

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • March 30, 2007
Get the best to Trump the Slump

Only 45 of the 246 units at Signature Place remain available. One of the two largest penthouses, a three-level luxurious unit, sold for $3.6 million to a rock star. The developer owns the other.

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