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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 9, 2007
Lou Lasday:Your Greatest Asset is Walking Out the Door

Employees are your secret weapon in today's economy.

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  • March 16, 2007
Icahn boosts pressure on WCI

Icahn says he'll offer $22 a share for WCI Communities. Meanwhile, three major hedge-fund investors disclose new stakes in the Southwest Florida homebuilder.

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  • August 31, 2007
Hair Space

How 500 square feet translated to a 55% jump in revenues at a Fort Myers hair salon. It's a lesson in maximizing the use of commercial real estate.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2007
Matt Walsh: Invoke the Lemon Law: Take back Crist

Crist has it wrong. The insurance industry is not the enemy. The enemy is the state. How could it be any more obvious? When the state's largest property insurer is the state itself, there is nothing more that needs to be said. The "market" didn't create Florida's insurance-pricing troubles; the state did.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 22, 2008
Corporate Report

Tampa Electric adds peak-power needSyniverse technology wins Global Mobile AwardFirst Advantage joins with DealerTrackStinger, New Mexico sign services contract

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  • July 28, 2006
A Bigger Reach

Three real estate services are attempting to take market share from the Multiple Listing Service, long the property listings champion. Gulf Coast Realtors are benefiting from the competition.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2006
Corporate Report

View business briefs covering the Gulf Coast for free.

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  • February 20, 2004
Wal-Mart's Penalty for Success

No one has a right to business success or a right to be protected from competitors by the government.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 3, 2006
Rauch: Overvalued

Here's my contention: The stock and bond markets are 30% overvalued based on their historic indicators and current ratios, creating investment risks in both markets.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • 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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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 28, 2005
Finalist: One to One Gulfcoast

Many not-for-profits have an important message to deliver. Unfortunately, more times than not, direct mailings to prospects end up unopened in the bottom of the garbage can next to other generic mail labeled, "You may already be a winner" and "Don't throw this away." In fact, only .5% of all of direct mail generates response, according to Brian Weiner and Dana Place, founders of One to One Gulfcoast.

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

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

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  • September 11, 2008
It takes a biker village

Motorcycle dealer Scott Fischer is planning to build a biker mall that will bring together brands such as Harley Davidson, Buell and Kawasaki. The economic downturn brings new opportunities.

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  • September 18, 2008
Dear Linda

A Gulf Coast advertising guru is expanding her horizons. Now, Linda Gross is allabout giving advice to other businesses.

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  • October 16, 2008
Meet the New Man

Relative unknown Neel Kashkari leaps from obscurity to lead role in rescue.

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  • January 23, 2009
Full Count

As Lee County's point man for baseball, JohnYarbrough hopes to make Lee County the hub forprofessional teams' spring training. Batting first:the Boston Red Sox. On deck: the Baltimore Orioles.

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  • May 15, 2008
TO WATCH (Tampa Bay): Arnie Bellini

Arnie Bellini appeared to be set. He had his MBA and CPA and a solid job as an IT consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. But when the first personal computers came out, he had a vision: They would remake the way business was done. And, companies needed someone to maintain them and their networks.

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  • February 27, 2009
Gulf Coast Week

Regional Business News at a Glance

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 10, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Tampa Bay

Work begins on Meres Town Center

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