Great Plains States


Recent Articles about Great Plains States

How the West Was Wired

A look at how Great Plains farmers used barbed-wire fences to transmit telephone calls.  Read more

Taking Names

Profile of a successful software company that capitalizes on its customer client list and its employees.  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

How To Prepare For The Property Bubble

All but the most stubborn optimist knows that the property bubble of the 2000s is now deflating. This is a cause for concern for just about everyone since...  Read more

Tools of Employment

Every business owner can sympathize with the legendary adman Leo Burnett, who often lamented that "my assets go down the elevator every night." Fact is, n...  Read more

Coming to a Business Like Yours: Webware

Web services are fast growing in popularity because of their ease of use, low level of risk, and, often, better price.  Read more

McCain, Fair-Weather Free Marketeer: Courting Coal

We've discussed in this space Senator John McCain...  Read more

Winning Numbers

A business financial expert details how to pick a good low-end accounting program.  Read more

Service, Not Servers

When your computer servers go down, so does your business. So why not toss your servers and keep your applications on the Web instead?  Read more

Service, Not Servers

When your computer servers go down, so does your business. So why not toss your servers and keep your applications on the Web instead?  Read more

The Climate Begins To Change In The Senate

It is perhaps fitting that just a day after the Senate commenced debate on greenhouse gas cap-and-trade Read more

Is Manufacturing Weighing Down the U.S. Economy?

The answer may surprise you.  Read more

Here's a Nice Problem

Mike Levsen has a problem most mayors would love to have -- he's got jobs galore coming to his tiny town of Aberdeen, South Dakota, and isn't sure he has ...  Read more

Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America

If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F...  Read more

Can We Talk?

A growing company is supposed to be one happy family, but your computers don't always get the message. Incompatible apps. Proprietary data formats. Feudin...  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

Hassle-Free Expensing

Automated expense systems eliminate paper receipts and let employees create and submit reports anytime, anyplace.  Read more

Hassle-Free Expensing

Like a drafty farmhouse in winter, a company can lose profits through a hundred cracks and crevices. And few things are leakier than expense reports. ...  Read more

Best Love of Product: True Believers

How some companies cultivate their employees' pride in and passion for their employer and/or product.  Read more

Software Selection: Budget Accounting Software

A look at five inexpensive small-business accounting software packages.  Read more

The Road to One-to-One Marketing

A close-up look at how a concierge service is successfully using one-to-one marketing, and what this appraoch involves.  Read more

A Different Side of Fargo

I just came back from Fargo, North Dakota. On the coasts, that's usually enough to elicit some sneers. Yet Fargo is not quite what people think. Not just...  Read more

Location, Location, Location

The unlikely story of Cobalt Boats, whose secret ingredient to quality is...farmers?  Read more

Bill's Excellent Adventure

Suddenly, Microsoft cares. If you run a small business, this may be just what you've been waiting for.  Read more

Bill's Excellent Adventure

Suddenly, Microsoft cares. If you run a small business, this may be just what you've been waiting for.  Read more

View from the Top

Four different types of business are represented in this piece that examines executive information systems.  Read more

Does the SBA Still Matter?

To get past the partisan debate in Washington, we went to a district office to find out what the SBA really does and whom it really helps.  Read more

Larry's Kids

NetSuite, Oracle, and SalesForce.com- all spawned by Larry Ellison- are entering a high-stakes battle to sell you software that gives you unprecedented contr...  Read more

Larry's Kids

NetSuite, Oracle, and SalesForce.com- all spawned by Larry Ellison- are entering a high-stakes battle to sell you software that gives you unprecedented contr...  Read more