How the West Was Wired
A look at how Great Plains farmers used barbed-wire fences to transmit telephone calls. Read more
Great Plains States
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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
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