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  • October 17, 2003
Lou Lasday: The Importance of Cross Selling

Lou Lasday is an independent marketing adviser who resides on Longboat Key. He creates strategic corporate initiatives for emerging companies. A career direct response executive, he has been a senior partner of a national advertising agency and served as

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  • By Lou Lasday |
  • April 23, 2010
Dynamic 'REM' Databasing

It will tell you when a client is due, when he is overdue, or when he is done.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • February 14, 2020
How to buy out a business partner

One key is to take emotion out of the process.

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  • May 23, 2014
Corporate Report

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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  • January 15, 2009
Flight time

By holding down costs and offering competitive rates, Steven Santo has grown Avantair into a growing company in the private jet business.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 7, 2024
Top 10 Business Observer stories of the first half of 2024

While some news is of closings and layoffs, people and companies in the region are also busy buying land, expanding and taking risks.

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  • October 14, 2016
Craig Steinhoff, 39

Principal, HBK CPAs, Sarasota office

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  • October 13, 2017
Elizabeth Lombardo, 31

Account manager, Wilson Creative Group

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  • October 13, 2017
Marc Devisse, 34

President and owner, Tri-Town Construction LLC

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  • October 13, 2017
Camilyn Leavitt, 30

Owner and designer, Camilyn Beth LLC

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  • October 13, 2017
Angel Gonzalez, 30

Tampa Bay Market President, CenterState Bank

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  • October 4, 2013
Tammie Sandoval, 29

Director - Trust & Estate Services, BMO Private Bank

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  • By James R. |
  • March 28, 2014
Use customer experience to drive value

To best understand how customers view your product and brand, put yourself in their shoes for a few transactions.

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  • October 10, 2014
Samuel Raabe, 33

General Sales Manager, Brandon Honda

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  • September 24, 2013
Resident Techie: That computer's on fire! Oh No!

It's going to happen. You know it will. But still you put it off and now, disaster has struck. There's no telling what form it'll take. It could be everything from the more obviously sinister burglar or virus to that seemingly innocent (yet dastardly) glass of water. Or it could happen with a whimper, something as simple as a strange clicking noise that means your computer has become a giant paperweight.

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  • November 22, 2013
Out of the Lab

Algenol Biofuels Founder and CEO Paul Woods says he's ready to build a commercial facility to produce ethanol from algae. He has powerful financial backing.

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  • January 7, 2011
Gamla-Cedron Group buys Preserve at Temple Terrace units

Gamla-Cedron Group, an Israeli-based real estate investment firm, continued a condo buying binge with its fifth recent distressed bulk multifamily deal in the Tampa area.

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  • April 29, 2011
Grubb & Ellis REIT buys Lakewood Ranch medical office building for $12.5 million

Some of Bradenton's most prominent power players have sold Lakewood Ranch Medical Office Building I to national real estate investment trust Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II for $12.5 million.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 13, 2019
Boston company invests big in condo project

Boston-based West Shore LLC has invested nearly $122 million to buy a majority of the condo units in the Grande Oasis at Carrollwood project north of Tampa

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 26, 2019
Blackstone fund buys St. Petersburg apartments

Blackstone Group continues to buy Gulf Coast apartment projects, even as it prepares to shift its corporate structure to a corporation this summer.

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