By Amy Kuhlers, Iowa Economic Development Administration - IASourcelink Does Your Organization have a Niche? Does your organization specialize in serving certain demographic clients or excel in a particular area of service? If so, we can now better showcase those unique capabilities through the IASourceLink Resource Navigator! While selecting special focus areas...
By Lea Hensel, UNI Business and Community Services We all love our family. And for some of you, the idea of working with family could send shivers down your spine but millions of businesses are operated and run by family, and it works for many of them.In fact, according to the...
By Lea Hensel, UNI Business & Community Services One of the greatest assets of IASourceLink are the resource partners; over 350 public organizations throughout the state that provide expertise and assistance to entrepreneurs and small businesses at little or even no cost. For every small business, being a part of the...
By Joe Bolick, Business and Community Services The holiday season is all about giving, and many times that giving includes a nice floral arrangement. Florists have a unique business that has to gear up differently for each and every holiday, but this time of year is especially important. Bernie Henrich knows...
By Lea Hensel, UNI Business and Community Services Have you started your holiday shopping yet? If you’re stuck on what to get your boss, friend who’s a business owner, or sibling that’s a budding entrepreneur, we’ve got you covered. We’re kicking off the list with some of the more common and...
A fan of interesting tidbits of information, I’ve always found Guinness World Records fascinating. Not that I’m interested in growing the world’s longest fingernails or being the fastest crab walker (a feat recently achieved by an ISU student), but I do think it would be kind of cool to be...
I, like many of you this holiday season, spent time decorating and sprucing up my house for the holidays. It was a frenzy but the food, decorations and laughter of my grandchildren was certainly worth it all! As our homes are the center for celebrations, gatherings, and development of families...
"Health Care Reform Today" Tuesday, October 13, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Holiday Inn Downtown NAWBO Iowa hosts experts from Merit Resources on Health Care Reform at its monthly luncheon program on Tuesday, Oct. 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Downtown in Des Moines. Merit Resources is an accredited Professional Employer Organization (PEO)...
Military Cost Cutters was conceptualized in the streets of Iraq and implemented back here in the states 8 months ago. As a military veteran and entrepreneur I knew that there was a problem and it needed to be fixed. As with most entrepreneurs traction and validation are key measures to...
So you’ve taken the time to create a website and now that you’ve got your business on the web you can just sit back and watch the customers roll in, right? Well… not exactly. Just having a presence on the Internet isn’t enough. You’ve got to be proactive if you...
