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Recent Articles about San Luis Obispo

Inc. 500 Private Jet Charterer Rates Operators

Feb. 26, 2007 -- Jets.com, a Quincy, Mass.-based private jet chartering company, has awarded eight jet operators top marks for customer s...  Read more

Plugging Your Customers

One good way to reinforce your relationship with customers is to plug them whenever you can. At San Luis Sourdough, a$3-million bakery in San Luis Obispo,...  Read more

Frugal Move: An Online Catalog

Drew Munster had meager financing when he started Tennis Warehouse, a direct-mail business in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He could afford only a black-and-whi...  Read more

Hot Market: Bike Commuters

In urban areas, the average motorist spends nearly two days a year stuck in traffic. Perhaps biking is the answer.  Read more

House ads

Thanking people for their business by giving away advertising space in the company newsletter.  Read more

You Get What You Pay For

Charging higher prices for customers who require more service.  Read more

On-Line: Bootstrapping on the Web

A quick look at how a direct-mail business has grown with help from the World Wide Web.  Read more

Sour Grapes

Chalone's strategy was to trade the efficiency of large wineries for the quality image of small ones. And it worked-for a while.  Read more

Build Your Own

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, Warren W. Webb, president of The Computation Co. of San Diego, Calif., is wearing a leather tool belt and poking his finger i...  Read more

Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares

One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa...  Read more

Games Businesspeople Play

Some talk about it; some don't. But without question, there are more than a few who are doing something other than VisiCalc down at the shop.  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

The Entrepreneur of the Year

Introduction to the Entrepreneur of the Year judges and the selection process.  Read more

Resurrecting Auto Graveyards

A decade ago consultant Barry Isenberg shed his three-piece suit and stepped into what he calls "the last frontier." Since then, a lot of junkyard dogs have ...  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more