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60-Second Business Plan: Circular Logic

You've got to be either crazy or brave to think you could make a buck in Internet advertising these days. But that's just what John Strisower has in mind.  Read more

Lessons of a Bottom Feeder

Dave Morse has turned his most basic of businesses - community newspapers - into a success.  Read more

The Lowdown on Clipping Services

Various services designed to clip press articles on market trends, tips competition.  Read more

Hanft: No One Asked Me But...

Newspapers Need Reinvention For years now, the newspaper industry has been virtually paralyzed as it has watched its readership age and you...  Read more

A Whole New Game

A Mexican media magnate and a New York publisher team up to start a national daily sports newspaper called The National.  Read more

Glossary of Media Terms

anchor: the member of a news team who coordinates the reports assignment editor: staff member of a television or ...  Read more

Employers Posting Fewer Job Ads

The number of help-wanted ads in major U.S. newspapers and online continued to decline in July, signaling slower job growth in the months ahead, the Confe...  Read more

FCC Turns TV Off on Small Businesses

Hey, what about us? Regular readers of my column know I get really irked at how small business is overlooked by the government. Legislation and regulation...  Read more

One Way To Pick New Markets

One leading indicator of an area's prevailing business climate is newspaper help-wanted advertising. The Conference Board, a nonprofit business rese...  Read more

Yellow Journalism

The more successful your company, the faster your sales and profits grow . . . and the faster you go out of business? Historic Newspaper Archives In...  Read more

National Directory Of Addresses And Telephone Numbers. Concord Reference Books, 135 W. 50th St., New York, Ny 10020; 852 Pp., $19.95 Paperback + $2 Postage/handling.

Large-format listings of business-useful data in a variety of categories. Examples: corporations with over $6 million in sales, major brokerage firms, con...  Read more

Advertising;

Newspaper advertising can be an effective way to market your business, but be careful. Because consumers often read newspaper ads for price-comparison sh...  Read more

Bye, Bye to Stock Tables

The Chicago Sun-Times announced yesterday that it would no longer publish stock tables in its print edition. Instead, the paper plans to "beef up" ...  Read more

Advertise Wisely: Less Can Be More

The fact that you don't have the budget to support half-page newspaper ads doesn't mean you should resign yourself to obscurity. In fact, since the newsp...  Read more

Traditional Media Advertising: We Will Miss You, After All

Unless you've just returned from Mars; you are probably aware that the newspaper business is dying. Television news isn't doing so hot, either. I...  Read more

Fathers and Sons

First-person account on the questions of succession how a family business changes your life.  Read more

Small-Town Weekly

Financial summary and brief description of a small-town weekly.  Read more

Advertising Media—Print

Related Terms: Advertising Me...  Read more

Every newspaper reader knows the problem. Spend five minutes thumbing through and your hands and shirt are filthy. Saranda Corp., of Dayton, has develope...  Read more

Presto Change-O, Marketing Magic

New business creates a device to simplify VCR recording.  Read more

Online Recruiting More Popular

More hiring managers are looking for job candidates online, but referrals are still the most trusted tool.  Read more

Sometimes, It Is Whether You Win or Lose

"The National" folds.  Read more

Business A Little Slow? Try This

In October 1983, Corr's Natural Beverages Inc. had the good fortune to be sued by Coors (Adolph) Co. for trademark infringement. The $6-million Chicago na...  Read more

The Time for Change Is Always Now

The media landscape is ever-changing. We are witnessing an evolution in broadcast media advertising -- from product placements on reality TV shows, sitcom...  Read more

Mail-Order Basics

Books to use for building a mailing list and generating publicity.  Read more

The First Fish Story

We pleased to note the success of The $1 Million Fish Fight (Update, January) in Lake Chickamauga, Tenn. Seeing a community project that we developed the ...  Read more

Recycling

Beginning in the mid-1960s and growing alongside the environmental movement, recycling became an important aspect of municipal waste management and symbol...  Read more

Online Coupon Sites Thriving

As consumers cut their budgets, they're turning to the Internet for savings.  Read more

Where to Find Business Help

Where do small-business owners get information to help them run their companies? According to a recent survey, the most popular sources are magazines and ...  Read more

How Scoville Did It

Rick Scoville got his business off the ground by generating mounds of free publicity. "Basically, I wouldn't pay for anything if I didn't have to," he ad...  Read more

The Online Sleuth

Need the skinny on your competitors? Leverage the Web.  Read more

Does Internet Recruiting Work?

One needs to look beyond career sites and job boards to see the ultimate opportunities for finding workers online.  Read more

Pamela Miller "was troubled watching executive women look like bag ladies" as they walked to Wall Street carrying their dress shoes in plastic bags. She s...  Read more

Would You Eat Cereal Made From Amaranth?

One day in the not-too-distant future your morning newspaper may be made from kenaf. Your tires may come from guayule. And you may eat cereal made from ...  Read more

Help-Wanted Ads Decline

The recent economic downturn has employers cutting back on hiring plans, the Conference Board says.  Read more

What to Do After Selling

Super Bowl ads: The verdict. "Beer solves a lot of problems, women hold men back from their dream, and this year, pants are optional." That's what ...  Read more

Newspaper Job Ads Declining

Fewer jobs were posted in the help-wanted sections of major newspapers nationwide in May, continuing a three-month decline, the Conference Board reported ...  Read more

Turning Basketball Back Into A Business

A month after Harold Katz purchased the Philadelphia 76ers, a photograph of "Dr. J" -- Julius Erving, the six-foot-six forward for the team -- appeared in...  Read more

A Smoker's Airline?

A variety of newspapers and news services reported this weekend that a German entrepreneur plans to launch an airline that caters exclusively to smokers. ...  Read more

Family Feuds

Some of the leading American families have been forced to sell their legacies  Read more