Fort Wayne


Network: April 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Brains Over Bucks

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

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 story

Marketing: Intellectual Capital

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

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 story

Congress Versus the Bureaucrats

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

The Scoop on `Info Brokers'

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

Ask for Help

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

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 story

Thriving On Adversity

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

Network: September 1990 New Queries

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

How to Launch an Inc. 500 Company

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

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 story

A Strategy for Cost-cutting

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

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 story

Payday

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

Emotional Branding

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

Distribution Channels

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

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 story

Give And You Shall Receive

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

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

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

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 story

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

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

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 story

"gainfully" Employed

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

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 story

Hot Spots

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

null

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 story

Hot Spots

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

CEO's Notebook

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

Hot Spots

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

Network: December 1990

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

null

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 story

Hot Cities, Hot Sites

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

Seducing The Customer;

I WOULDN'T WANT TO CLAIM THAT salespeople at Ballard Medical Products Inc. have it easy. They'd bristle at that. George Wojtowicz, for instance, might po...  Read story

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read story

The Rationalist: The Death of Gut Instinct

An increasing number of entrepreneurs have turned against intuition when it comes to deciding what kind of business to start.  Read story

Snap, Crackle, Pop!

Some things never change. Take those old wooden mousetraps that your grandparents used to have around the house. They're still being churned out in Lititz, Pa.  Read story

Climbing To The Top Of The Charts

Microcomputer software sales are heading for the stratosphere. But the most popular programs aren't necessarily the best.  Read story

  • 1
  • 2