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Most companies accept the fact that disability claims are out of their control. FirstMerit Bank of Akron found that doesn’t have to be the case. [read more]
Most companies accept the fact that disability claims are out of their control. FirstMerit Bank of Akron found that doesn’t have to be the case. [read more]
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Businesses with similar names that once operated within different geographic areas are now bumping into each other in cyberspace.
Businesses with similar names that once operated within different geographic areas are now bumping into each other in cyberspace.
The tech companies housed in Canal Place found out there can be benefits to holding monthly meetings with the competition.
Bill Schiltz’s secret to success is, quite simply, common sense.
Why Mark Williams wants to make sure you're never put on hold again
Chris Paxos uses his business plan every day as a road map. The result? Doubled sales for the last five years.
As Rice's Nursery enters its third generation of leadership, the Rice family is finding that even after 50 years in business, there are always new hurdles to overcome.
Ken Howe is taking his P&G experience to Pizza Hut -- and the differences between selling toilet paper and selling pizza are not as great as you might expect.
Ken Howe is taking his P&G experience to Pizza Hut -- and the differences between selling toilet paper and selling pizza are not as great as you might expect.
There are payoffs for providing health care plans employees won't complain about.
You can offer attractive retirement benefits without breaking the bank.
How smaller companies can use marketing data to drive smart decisions
You can offer attractive retirement benefits without breaking the bank.
You don't have to pay a lot for high-tech research. A lab-for-hire at the University of Akron's College of Polymer Science & Polymer Engineering offers research facilities to businesses of all siz
There are payoffs for providing health care plans employees won't complain about.
How Amish-owned Lehman's hardware in Kidron captured the international marketplace with a Web site and a toll-free number
A local accounting firm confronts the prospect of repetitive stress injuries head on.
Construction experts expect a busy season, despite Sept. 11.
The factors behind Ken Stewart's continued success in an industry prone to failure
In May, you can switch workers' comp MCOs. Here are some tips to help you decide if you need to.
In May, you can switch workers' comp MCOs. Here are some tips to help you decide if you need to.
A Northeast Ohio spa offers nurses an alternative to traditional continuing ed classes.
An expert gives tips on creating a Web site that will keep customers coming back.
An expert gives tips on creating a Web site that will keep customers coming back.
How a simple business philosophy, guiding the manufacture of a ancient product, has fueled one of Medina's most successful private businesses for nearly a century.
Why Harry London Candies is pitching its product on the Home Shopping Network
Videophones may become commonplace within the next year.
Five ways to ensure your customers pay their bills -- and pay them on time.
Five obstacles many businesses are dealing with -- and ways to overcome them
How Stanley Gault has redefined retirement
The electronic devices produced by the Wooster-based Prentke Romich Co. allow those unable to speak to communicate independently.
Hiring an outsider to run the family business can have its advantages. For Liniform Service, it was the logical succession solution -- at least for now.
How one family tapped into the right market, in the right place, at the right time
As the owners of Lakeshore Jewelry & Gifts know all too well, you can't predict the reasons that will someday compel you to close your doors.
Three years, $6 million and lots of employee input went into the construction of Liquid Control's new headquarters. While this might seem extravagant, the theory was simple: a well-designed facility r
Why this local businessman is expanding his operations with a paper shredding franchise
One hundred years later, decisions at The J.M. Smucker company are still based on the founder's basic principles.
There is a protocol to going out of business.
How to use your e-age communications devices appropriately and professionally
Booties of Peninsula's success is based on old-fashioned customer service and attention to detail.
As his friends and peers looked on in disbelief, Don Whitemyer chose a cabin in the tiny town of Zoar as the place to open his ad agency. Today, Whitemyer Advertising is viewed as a model, not a mocke
Akron's Thom Mandel is one of the last independent radio station owners around, but he has no plans to retire -- or sell out.
There is a protocol to going out of business.
Charge your employees with the job of saving money.
Attention to detail has turned Swenson's into a local institution.
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