Archive for September, 2005
Engineering energy for economic development
Business is always a critical piece of economic development. Most often the people in businesses contribute mainly by spending their salaries in the area. But sometimes, a business owner comes along who sees greater needs and jumps in with both feet to help–on top of supplying jobs and salaries for community residents.
Met such a guy […]How do you market regional resources?
Cleveland, like many other regions, struggles to find an identity that allows everyone–all the counties, cities and areas–to work together. They’ve got some very useful organizations, but the marketing of those organizations is sometimes lacking–so people don’t know about them. Maybe the bio-related businesses will show the way.
At a meeting held last week at the […]Lowering prices?
Yep, the Charles Schwab company is dropping its remaining account service fees for about 650,000 account holders with balances below $25,000. The CFO Christopher Dodds told USA Today last week that they’d “lost their way” by imposing fees for overhead that had gotten out of hand.
Have you ever considered lowering your prices? Why?
Schwab’s HQ […]