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How to keep the best employees
By Jean Kruse / Guest Column
You often hear the phrase, “It’s cheaper to keep an existing customer than it is to attract a new...
Startup Weekend offers support, networking
Participants at Startup Weekend IC debate various business ideas during the Friday night session. PHOTO JONAH TERRY/SCULPT
By Nicholas Yanes
news@corridorbusiness.com
IOWA CITY—Startup Weekends have become popular,...
Tell your company’s story this holiday season
By Greg Dardis / Guest Column
You can tell if you’re in for a good story by the very first sentence.
“The night Max wore his...
The recipe for a happy holiday season
By Gale Mote / Guest Column
It is that time of year – advertising blitzes and email overload, the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping...
Q&A: Nick Gerhart
Nick Gerhart, Iowa Insurance Commissioner
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
Nick Gerhart was appointed insurance commissioner of Iowa effective Feb. 1, 2013 by Gov. Terry Branstad, succeeding Susan...
Honoring workforce innovation
CBJ’s inaugural Workforce Awards recognize 12 Corridor employers for efforts
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
CEDAR RAPIDS—The inaugural CBJ Workforce Awards recognized 12 employers for excellence in different...
Hit the emotional hot button for your brand
By Lynn Manternach / Guest Column
We’d all like to believe we’re highly rational creatures, but it’s just not true.
Practicality can play an important role...
How we remember(ed) Vietnam
By Joe Sheller / Guest Editorial
I had planned to write this month about echoes of the protests at the University of Missouri, and how...
FSB keeps it neighborly
Brothers Gene Neighbor, FSB president and CEO, Doug Neighbor, vice chairman, and Kent Neighbor, chairman, stand in the lobby of the bank's main branch...