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| 10/10/08 | Nancy Lord, MD | Do Not Let Tough Times Turn the EEOC into Your Divorce Court. | The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is not a family court. |
| 10/06/08 | Arthur Lipper III | Why Plummeting Dollar Hurts You | Interview with Arthur Lipper |
| 04/25/06 | Wayne D. Messick | A Synergy of Business Strengths | Often two organizations produce a sum much greater than the efforts that either organization can accomplish on its own. |
| 03/26/06 | Arthur Lipper III | Boards of Directors versus Advisory Boards | |
| 04/24/05 | Arthur Lipper III | Developing, Administering, Coaching and Judging Business Plan Contests © | Successful entrepreneurial activity is good for both those directly involved and for the community at large. The exercise of learning how to plan and being forced to plan and, as a part of the process, preparing business plans, is constructive, even recognizing entrepreneurs usually dislike doing so, being more doing focused. |
| 04/24/05 | Arthur Lipper III | Being a good director © | Serving as a director of an investor owned company, be it publicly traded or private, is or can be; a privilege, a responsibility, a burden, a source of satisfaction, a personal liability, a path to financial reward, interesting, frustrating, time consuming and fun. |
| 01/20/05 | Arthur Lipper III | Would you buy or invest in your own business? | A guide to managing better and also attracting capital© |
| 10/27/04 | Wayne D. Messick | Can't Talk Here! | For over two decades business owners have told me " yes, but our business is different - we're unique" - but that is not the case. Having seen it all before helps me put their situation in perspective, thereby realizing that there are solutions - they just have to sort them out. |
| 06/08/03 | Arthur Lipper III | Determining if an Investment in and/or by a Privately Owned Company is Warranted | The Art of Investment - Deciding if money should be spent or invested in or by an entity. |
| 02/12/03 | Daniel W. Stafford | Hedge Lending: An Old Stock Liquidity Solution with a Brand New Face | Hedge lending is a powerful and flexible liquidity option for those who want to, in essence "stay in and out of the market" at the same time. It essentially places a bottom on loss (borrower keeps their 90% of today's value in cash regardless) while keeping their portfolio working for them for up to twenty years. |
| 01/18/03 | Dr. James E. Bridges, Jr | Strategic Human Resources Planning | Getting to where you want to go through people. |
| 01/12/03 | Nancy Lord, MD | When a Franchisor Web Page Becomes “EXHIBIT ONE” | |
| 01/10/03 | Arthur Lipper III | Why I am bearish (as if anyone cared)? | A bearish view of the market from an experienced veteran of his own institutional brokerage firm. |
| 11/24/02 | Arthur Lipper III | Goal Achievement Probability Rating service | An interview with Arthur Lipper regarding his new Goal Achievement Probability Rating service |
| 07/25/02 | Judith Oppenheimer | WORLDCOM CUSTOMERS: WHAT TO DO? | Are you currently a WorldCom customer, or the customer of a WorldCom reseller? Don't panic! Read here to examine all of your options first. |
| 05/24/02 | Eric Stevenson | Quest Stalling Creditors | Quest Stalls Creditors In Wake Of Breakup - Bankruptcy Looms |
| 05/08/02 | Judith Oppenheimer | HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN THE ICANN-REFORM LIGHTBULB? | 30 million AARP members? 50 million CFA members? How about the Attorney Generals and chief legal officers of all 50 states? |
| 05/06/02 | Eric Stevenson | Telco's Staggering Debts To Fall On Banks | Banks at risk of huge losses for over extending credit to Worldcom and Qwest. |
| 05/06/02 | Wayne D. Messick | Not With MY Money You Aren't | Often it is fear of failure --looking bad to their contemporaries and competitors-- that causes them to hold back. |
| 03/25/02 | Wayne D. Messick | What do business owners REALLY want the Internet to do for them? | Our research will surprise many in the media, whose role in reporting the Internet has been so predictable and so wrong - at least as it effects the millions of business owners who are not part of the Fortune 1000. |
| 03/18/02 | Wayne D. Messick | Main Street Strikes Back With Branding | Branding is not about bells and whistles. It is about trust. If you look behind all the smoke from the "dot-bombed" you will see that they were trying to convince you that you should trust them. |
| 03/05/02 | Wayne D. Messick | We have all heard the adage that "Necessity is the mother of invention.” For Helen Adamo, creator of WalkerAlls® and www.walkeralls.com,this phrase could be her motto. | The web site has been of more value to me than anything else I’ve done. |
| 02/21/00 | Wayne D. Messick | "Getting Online: How Long Will It Take?" | Do you want to be involved in the design and actual Web site creation? And, if so, how much do you know about it. And are you interested in learning? |
| 02/21/00 | Wayne D. Messick | Does Your Customer Service Team Need a Few Passing Drills? | Business is not a game, but games are all business. |
| 07/24/00 | Judith Oppenheimer | NEW TOLL FREE NUMBERS: WILL VANITY AFFECT THIS WEEKEND’S 866 ROLL-OUT? | On the eve of new toll free code 866, a Stay is sought pending resolution of vanity number issues. |
| 04/13/00 | Eric Bourdeau de Fontenay | BMG Reveals its Plans for Taking on Digital Downloading; Sony Follows with Help From Reciprocal | While music consumers and enthusiasts have been there [on the side of digital downloads] for a while, the technology and infrastructure for securing transactions involving the downloading of digital music is now in place, and the major record labels are starting to come. |
| 03/15/00 | Elaine Morris Palmer | Milken Institute Global 2000 Conference Attracts Over 42 Countries with 1300 Attendees To Address Issues Of The Changing Global Landscape. | Nine Nobel Laureates Headline Three Day Conference on the effects of technology on Global Economics. |
| 02/20/00 | Wayne D. Messick | An Internet Strategy for Main Street--Take Action NOW While You Still Have the Upper Hand! | For most businesses, developing an Internet strategy requires first of all an understanding of why there is a need for such a strategy. |
| 01/15/00 | Eric Bourdeau de Fontenay | Is There a Problem with The Orchard? An Investigative Report | A rather unpleasant allegation regarding The Orchard and the payment (or alleged non-payment) of its independent artists has been recently circulating throughout the industry. |
| 10/11/99 | Judith Keenan | Creating an Effective Branding and Marketing Strategy Online | Total Integration With Traditional Marketing Is The First Step |
| 10/07/99 | Cam Christie. B.A. | Hong Kong's economic indicators positive. | Hong Kong appears to be entering sustained economic growth period. |
| 10/27/99 | Judith Oppenheimer | DOMAIN NAMES: DIVINE RIGHT, OR FIRST COME FIRST SERVE? | In savvy political fashion, the strategy here is one of semantics: trademark interests claim dire need for “trademark protection," when what they really want is "trademark supremacy," the divine right to any domain name, trademark-related or not. |
| 10/21/99 | Judith Oppenheimer | A NEW WORLD ORDER | CyberHQ: THE NEW IMPERIALISM describes a new world order in which an organization's identity can belong to someone other than the organization itself. |
| 10/04/99 | Judith Oppenheimer | Don'tTakeMyDomainName.com | "You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, delete or transfer your domain name at any time." |
| 09/27/99 | Arthur Lipper III | Are gasoline prices too high? | Wouldn't it be nice if once, just once, the consumers won? |
| 07/07/99 | Otho B. Ross | Internet Law Update -- Domain Name and Other Issues | Recent developments in domain name registrations, trademarks, contract law, jurisdiction and other Internet issues. |
| 05/11/99 | Dr. Delores Williams | Depression Costs Businesses $43.7 Billion Annually | Untreated Depression costs businesses $43.7 billion mainly due to absenteeism. |
| 04/22/99 | Elaine Morris Palmer | AFTER THE HYPE: WHAT NOW? | Spring Internet World '99 |
| 04/04/99 | Judith Oppenheimer | FCC to Release Unclaimed 888 Vanity Numbers | With customer demand for toll free vanity numbers soaring, the Federal Communications Commission has ordered the release of approximately 190,000 vanity 888 numbers, beginning April 5 at noon EST. |
| 02/01/99 | Dr Claudia Gramaccia | STRONG INCOME TAX INCENTIVES FOR COMPANIES IN ITALY | The Italian Government announced an Income Tax for companies at 19% for the next three years. |
| 02/11/99 | Cam Christie. B.A. | New Zealands modest market picking up with increased economic activity. | New Zealand is becoming even more of a potential export market. |
| 03/05/99 | Judith Oppenheimer | HOW TO "1-800-FLOWERS" ON A BUDGET | How to extend the life of your advertising, increase calls by 25% or more, and improve the quality of your leads to people who are ready to buy - on a small business budget. |
| 01/28/99 | Dr Claudia Gramaccia | NEWS FROM THE ITALIAN CAPITAL MARKET | Olivetti issued eurobonds ending 2009 at 5% |
| 01/20/99 | Judith Oppenheimer | 800 VANITY NUMBERS TROUNCE NUMERIC TOLL-FREE'S | Vanity phone numbers dramatically increase advertising response rates, according to a new study. The results of this study are overwhelming evidence that vanity numbers are truly indispensable. |
| 12/14/98 | Dr. Pyotr Joannevich van de Waal-Palms | Perspectives on Russia: The State of their Population, Business, and their Economy | Tidbits December 14 , 1998 |
| 11/05/98 | Elaine Morris Palmer | E_COMMERCE IMPRESSIONS: @D:Tech '98, New York | "It's A Whole New Space" |
| 10/28/98 | Dr. Pyotr Joannevich van de Waal-Palms | RUSSIA: End game for Yeltsin? | Russia must have outside assistance because it needs outside government, for a time. It cannot rescue itself. |
| 09/16/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME ... | In a regulatory environment where the FCC has ruled that user-interest-in-vanity number-issues should be addressed by the courts under the trademark protection laws, and furthermore, where the Commission's own regulations prohibit the free market from resolving these concerns, 1 800 FLOWERS goes to court. |
| 09/03/98 | Timothy D. Kelly | ECONOMY IS HOPPING, SO ARE WORKERS | Shell Poll finds workforce adjusting to changes, but mainly satisfied |
| 09/08/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | 800 NUMBERS, VANITIES, DOMINATE TV COMMERCIALS | Twenty-four percent of television commercials contain a toll-free number; of those, 91% using the 800 prefix and 57% of which are vanity (numbers that translate into words for easy recall). |
| 07/20/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | WHO IS GOING TO EDUCATE THE FCC? | Protecting the value of and investment in a vanity number is, to be sure, a valid consideration for individual holders of those numbers. But the far more serious problem with the Commission's toll free policy is that it threatens at best to substantially dilute and at worst to utterly destroy the entire concept of toll free branding. |
| 03/31/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | FCC ON 800: CARRIERS 1, USERS 0 | In one fell swoop, the Federal Communications Commission has dismissed five Congressional leaders, the Small Business Administration, and legions of commercial users of toll free service. |
| 03/24/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD | Congressional leaders tell the FCC, "Vanity numbers are extraordinarily valuable marketing tools for large and small businesses alike...", "Large carriers are RespOrgs, SNAC members, and subscribers... There exists a fundamental conflict of interest in the roles [they] have in the toll free industry." |
| 03/13/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 800 GO GEROW | Attorney Charlie Gerow is a GOP candidate for Congress who is a strong believer in the free market power of vanity toll free numbers. In 1996, Gerow’s campaign bought 1-800-GO-GEROW, and has used the number successfully in both races. |
| 02/19/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 800 IPO | "Many 800 number companies offer competitively priced products and services and are currently locked out of badly needed public capital because of the FCC's stance," says Richard Sapio, CEO of 1 800 MUTUALS, Inc. |
| 01/05/98 | Judith Oppenheimer | SBA TO FCC: STAY, RECIND, & RECONSIDER! | The Small Business Administration characterizes the FCC’s Toll Free Second Report and Order as “failing to recognize marketplace realities”, “arbitrary” and "capricious". |
| 11/04/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 800 FIFTY THOUSAND BUCKS | In August, 1997, the Federal Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld a district court judgement regarding the toll-free number 1-800-FOR LEASE. This case involved a finding by the jury that the number wrongfully denied the plaintiff was, in and of itself, worth $50K to the plaintiff. |
| 10/15/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 800 SMALL BIZ | Here are a few unique tips toward minimizing cost, and maximizing utility and revenue, from your toll-free service. |
| 10/13/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES | For many companies the use of vanity numbers goes far beyond advertising or even marketing - the toll free number itself becomes a brand or product name (e.g., 1-800-FLOWERS, 1-800-COLLECT, etc.) This is good for business and economic growth. As such, the private commercial transfer of numbers from one user to another serves legitimate business purposes and is an integral part of the toll free marketing industry. |
| 10/06/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 800 AUSSIE | Recognition of vanity value, and private trading of numbers between customers, are standard fare Down Under. |
| 09/24/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE | FCC “resource management” is running 800 Service into the ground. |
| 09/11/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 800 DEUTSCHE | Toll free vanity numbers are being introduced in Germany as of January 1, 1998. |
| 09/08/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 800 SUNDAYS - HOW DOES MCI DO IT? | MCI shares its powerhouse 800 marketing strategy. |
| 09/05/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | TOLL FREE NUMBER RATIONING - AGAIN | It took 30 years to deplete 800 numbers It's only taken 18 months to deplete 888. |
| 08/10/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | EUROPEAN TOLL FREE/TOLL SHARED MARKET MAY REACH $5 BILLION BY 2002 | The European toll-free and toll-shared services market earned more than $1 billion in 1996, and has the potential to reach $5 billion annually by the year 2002, according to "Exploiting the Opportunities for Intelligent Networks," a new study released by the independent consultant agency Schema. |
| 07/24/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | DING DONG, THE AUCTION'S DEAD | The toll free auction is dead, but only in the feline sense, i.e., it may have a few more lives left. Don't be surprised to see it resurface in another form in the future--perhaps even later this year. I wouldn't bet on it, but neither would I bet against it |
| 07/08/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | 1 888 FLOWERS? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW... | Should 1 888 FLOWERS be assigned to 1 800 FLOWERS? Regulators want to know if you think right of first refusal - where the holder of a toll-free number would have first dibs on matching numbers in new toll-free exchanges - is a good idea or not, and why. |
| 07/01/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | U.S. COMPANIES ASK CANADIAN PARTNERS JOIN 888 AUCTION FIGHT | The possibility of a toll-free number auction was a particularly hot topic at Supercomm ‘97 because it has the potential to wreak havoc in the business world. Supercomm panelist David Berndt of Ford Motor described his company's situation for ICB Toll Free News. |
| 06/19/97 | Boyd Baker | Futures Corn | The Corn market appears to be consolidating after a two month sell off. |
| 06/03/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | The Most Neglected $12 Billion Asset in Corporate America Today | Corporate political alliance with telecom carriers, relied upon for preferential treatment, backfired. Miserably. |
| 06/01/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | COINLESS CALLS TO COST TOLL-FREE INDUSTRY & CUSTOMERS BILLIONS | While most industry studies estimate the cost of a coinless call, ypically a calling card or toll-free call, at about 6 cents per call, the FCC’s payphone compensation plan reimburses payphone operators at 35-cents for each completed call. |
| 05/21/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | Congress Turns Deaf Ear on Nation's Largest Advertisers | 888 Auction Remains on Congressional Agenda. |
| 05/03/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | TOLL FREE CELLULAR | Borne of regulatory loophole -- and welcomed by cellular carriers -- TollFree Cellular and its telco partners will perhaps escape the greedy clutches of the FCC control patrol, currently wreaking havoc in the wireline toll-free marketplace. (For more information see ICB Toll Free News Cover Story.) |
| 04/17/97 | Roberto Miguel Cervantes Muller | Headline News of the Oil Industry | Geophysics |
| 04/15/97 | Judith Oppenheimer | FCC Negates Toll Free Industry in the Guise of the "Public Interest" | This FCC Ruling - 80 pages of dismissive arrogance - reads over-regulation, anti-competition, and government imposition. Can Congressional auction of toll-free numbers be far behind? |
| 03/28/97 | Adam K. Soskin | NYC MUSIC INDUSTRY DOING POORLY | Clubs not open to unsigned bands |
| 02/09/97 | Jean Marie Angelo | Investors Back GeoCities with $9 Million Investment | SOFTBANK Holdings, Chase Capital Partners, Innocal, CMG@Ventures and Flatiron Partners supply more capital to Internet community provider. |
| 01/13/97 | Paul Lengemann | Confusion Yet Only One Direction For the Markets | The markets are basing their direction on unclear fundamentals. |
| 01/09/97 | Paul Lengemann | Germany's Helmut Kohl Puts on Positive Face Despite Poor Statistics | German gowth and employment statistics are very disppointing. |
| 01/07/97 | Paul Lengemann | Volatile Market Conditions Ahead | It's a New World in 1997 |
| 01/06/97 | Paul Lengemann | Gold Price Continues to Plunge | Is Gold Losing Its Monetary Value? |
| 01/02/97 | Paul Lengemann | A Clouded Crystal Ball | The latest economic releases are confusing, the markets expect a tough year. |
| 01/01/97 | Charlotte A. Coats | Native Americans Can Access Health Care Through University of California Irvine Medical Center | University of California Irvine Offers Native Americans Medical Clinic |
| 12/20/96 | Diane Mathia Garrod | Significant Tax Changes for Americans | New tax laws mean changes for small businesses. |
| 12/02/96 | Frank Hartzell | Charles Schwab buys into old Robert Stack duck club | Wall Street leader Charles Schwab buys a stake in a prestigious hunt club. |
