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• ‘Geek Girl Camp’ Set to Launch First Event; Empowering Women on Technology

  March 17th, 2008 -- Geek Girl Camp, a technology meetup for girls/women with a desire to educate themselves on computers, the Internet and technology, is holding its first educational endeavor on April 17th on Cape Cod, MA.

• Converging on Southeastern Massachusetts

  Comcast’s Adelphia acquisition, its new Plymouth call center and new voice and business services reflect its confidence in the region’s economic growth.

• What really drives performance in your organization?

  Business owners are increasingly asking these questions: What is it that really drives performance and profitability, and how can we identify, quantify and measure all the assets of our company so that we can increase its performance?

• Holiday outlooks and action

  October 26, 2007 -- The annual holiday predictions have been coming out and to no one's surprise the outlook is less than stellar.

• Your budget: Helping ensure that reality meets expectations

  Budgeting is a management tool for dealing with the future. It helps you turn expectations into reality. More often than not, businesses don’t prepare an annual budget, and then wonder why reality does not meet their expectations.

• The A to Z of growing your sales and profits

  Customer service can determine success or failure for any business - good relationships with your customers will cause them to return again and again and recommend your company to others. Bad customer interactions can be a death knell, even if you have an excellent product or service to offer.

• Three critical drivers of corporate growth and prosperity

  Corporate growth and prosperity is an elusive goal. To achieve prosperity, a number of factors must coalesce. Above all, three elements are essential to developing and maintaining focus, thereby leading to prosperity. They are: visioning, organization and execution.

• Beefing up the content of your Web site

  On the Web, content is king. If you want people to visit, stick around and come back, give them substance to satisfy them.

• The ABCs of communication

  It is so basic in business that we tend to ignore it. But how you communicate with your customers, employees, vendors and business associates can make or break your company. Whether it is that one-to-one elevator speech or a presentation you must make around a conference table or in front of a large audience, your communication skills can prove the competitive advantage.

• So you want to grow a business, but you don't have the money ...

  You have your business plan in shape. You’ve studied the market and your competition. It’s time to start up your dream company or expand your operations. But a bank is not ready to give you the loan you need due to your personal financial situation – maybe not enough collateral or a poor credit history. What to do?

• How serious a threat are computer viruses?

  “My computer is acting up. It must be a virus.” You've undoubtedly heard comments like this, or even thought it yourself. In actuality, most computer glitches are caused by software conflicts or user error.

• Windows Vista: What to do?

  A personal computer's operating system is its brains. It tells your programs how to interact with your hardware, transmitting your intentions into words, calculations, photos, or any of the other tasks PCs handle.

• How to increase your hiring success by 30 percent

  There is nothing that improves the company bottom line faster than having employees motivated to do their jobs well, achieving success for the company and themselves. Without the right people, predisposed to excel in the right jobs, organizations won’t thrive as they should.

• Cape Business Connect 2006 Program

• Retail Details: Selling Smarter

  Our guru shares some of the best advice he’s picked up recently.

• Lessons learned from the ball field to banking

  At the Shepley Wood Products annual trade show, there was a particular buzz at the TD Banknorth booth. While neighboring exhibits boasted heavy equipment, window treatments and roofing supplies, the bank’s table was strewn only with baseballs. Hovering over them was Boston Red Sox great Rico Petrocelli signing autographs.

• Inside Leadership: Kathleen Schatzberg

  This is the second in a continuing series exploring leadership. Cape Business will interview many of Cape Cod’s most prominent business leaders during the coming year for our recurring Inside Leadership feature. We encourage our readers to nominate candidates for future interviews. In this issue, we talk with Kathleen Schatzberg, president of Cape Cod Community College.

• Need funding for your business? Here's where to start looking

  What is the most important and necessary item to have when starting or running a business? Money, of course. Many entrepreneurs wonder how to get it, and how to keep it once they have it.

• Business Connect Resource Center

  Business Connect articles and workshop presentations are now available online.

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