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Recent Articles about Fort Wayne

Network: April 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Brains Over Bucks

You don't have to outspend the competition, says Streetfighters, a retail trade organization: Outthink them.  Read more

Entrepreneurs Can Do Everything Government Can Do, Only Better;

BY THE TIME HE GOT TO PHOENIX, CHUCK WALBRIDGE HAD DISCOVERED THE PITFALLS, AS WELL AS THE PROMISE, OF PRIVATIZATION.  Read more

Bankruptcies Know No Boundaries

In sifting through small-business bankruptcy data, it wasn't surprising to see that the hardest hit areas in terms of sheer numbers are in Californ...  Read more

A Little Self-Promotion Never Hurts

How to get the word out about your new business  Read more

Share Your Intellectual Capital

You're an expert on your industry. So, why not package that expertise for customers? Flexible Personnel, a $56-million staffing company, located in Fort W...  Read more

Marketing: Intellectual Capital

A quick look at how a staffing company is using its expertise to conduct free seminars for customers.  Read more

Congress Versus the Bureaucrats

The president of the National Assoc. of Manufacturers explains changes he sees underway in Washington, D.C.  Read more

May I Have the Envelope, Please?

As part of the Small Business Administration's 50th anniversary, yesterday the agency honored 17 women-owned businesses for excellence in entrepreneurship...  Read more

Ask for Help

The benefits of using on-line services are highlighted by a CEO who uses several for support in various areas.  Read more

The Scoop on `Info Brokers'

A list of information brokers and low-cost alternatives to large market research houses.  Read more

Cities and Oil Prices: The Winners and The Losers

For most places, it’s hard to tell what the long-term effect of the high cost of energy might be. But there are some fairly safe bets.  Read more

Thriving On Adversity

Sometimes entrepreneurship does best when the local economy appears to have taken a turn for the worse  Read more

Network: September 1990 New Queries

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

How to Launch an Inc. 500 Company

Various strategic ideas used to launch successful Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

Method Acting

Really successful telephone selling involves much more than an autodialer and a well-written script. Chuck Surack, whose company sells its audio equipment...  Read more

Payday

Four sites to turn to when you want to benchmark your salary structure.  Read more

A Strategy for Cost-cutting

Cutting costs on workers' compensation through self-insuring prescreening prospective hires' backgrounds.  Read more

Emotional Branding

How much of your life story should you use to market your company?  Read more

Payday

Four sites to turn to when you want to benchmark your salary structure.  Read more

Profit Sharing: The One Percent Solution;

Tax reform has forced many companies to cast about for new ways to reward their key executives. For a few lucky ones, however, the old ways work better t...  Read more

Distribution Channels

Related Terms: Transportation Goods produced in ...  Read more

How Should Business Partners Evaluate One Another's Performance?

What you should do when it's time to motivate your partners but not offend them with constructive critiscism.  Read more

Security;

You won't have to look your employees in the eye anymore if you install one of the newer, and more exotic, security and time-checking gizmos on the market...  Read more

Give And You Shall Receive

Community involvement and public service promotions can make good business sense, many small companies discover.  Read more

Class Of '82: Who's Who Among The Acquired

1982 Rank Company Location Acquirer 413. Basic Concept Paterson, NJ Lightolier, subs. Bairnco <...  Read more

Are you for real?

When we meet people in person, there are often clues as to the person's identity, and sometimes there are real life tokens of identification. But when we ...  Read more

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business.  Read more

Which Cities Will the High Cost of Energy Hurt (and Help) the Most?

A high cost energy future will profoundly impact the cost of doing business and create new opportunities, but not necessarily in the way most people expect.  Read more

"gainfully" Employed

A home-grown gain-sharing plan at Fort Wayne, Ind., foundry has all employees pulling more weight  Read more

United They Stand

Maybe it can be attributed simply to more efficient record-keeping, but it seems that discord among business intimates these days is increasing even faste...  Read more

Hot Spots

INC.'s annual ranking of America's cities  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth 1976-80 Per...  Read more

CEO's Notebook

Questions and comments from senior businesspeople concerning such as topics hiring, thinking, and banking.  Read more

Hot Spots

INC.'s list of the 50 fastest-growing U.S. cities  Read more

Network: December 1990

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Hot Spots

Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed.  Read more

HOW THE CITIES WERE RANKED Like our annual states report, this ranking of metropolitan areas is based on three factors: job generation, rate of significan...  Read more

Hot Cities, Hot Sites

The cover story of the December 2000 issue of Inc. magazine, " Best Cities to Start and ...  Read more

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