My phone just rang. It was my friend and business partner Brian Ingle. Brian sells printing and promotional products for Links Print and he’s always honing his relationship building skills.
“Hey,” says Brian. “I just called to let you know that Mary Shellum is allowing me the privilege of printing her job. So I’m calling to [...]
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The Business Journal recently posted Changing home prices in the Top 100 metros. In Minneapolis-St. Paul the peak year for housing prices was 2007 (1st quarter only) with a change in housing prices since the peak of -7.14%. But there’s good news too — the 10-year change in housing prices was 74.63%. Which means people [...]
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Most of us know someone who is looking for a job — sometimes because we’re ready for a change, sometimes because change has been forced on us. My good friend, Jill Konrath, is hosting a free webinar for job seekers. If you know someone who is looking for a job — perhaps a client, or [...]
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In a meeting this afternoon, a successful builder observed: “We’re doing a lot of networking; everyone is right now. We’re doing it mostly with peers. We have the time, and it’s cheap, so we’re doing it. But I wonder if it’s really helping, or just making us feel better because it keeps us busy?”
I scribbled: [...]
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According to a recent press release from Consumer Reports:
The recent economic downturn has forced 67 percent of homeowners to rethink their plans, with the biggest changes including doing work themselves (42%), fixing or sprucing up what they already have (39%) and remodeling in phases (36%). The biggest reason consumers are cutting back on remodeling is [...]
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