Apr. 27. Ben Schorr, CEO of Roland Schorr & Tower will discuss the latest computer shortcuts and tips. Step by step demonstrations for making your jobs more efficient. Schorr is a technologist for the professional consulting firm Roland Schorr & Tower with offices in Flagstaff, Los Angeles and Honolulu. 11:30-1:00p.m. at the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce. Pre register at 928 774-4505 … [Read more...] about Focus On Your Business
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Educating Small Businesses About New Healthcare Law
Arizona Webinar April 12th. Series of webinars being held to focus on key provision of healthcare reform law that impact small businesses. With the tax filing deadline looming, national small business advocacy organization Small Business Majority is partnering with Small Business Administration regional administrators in a variety of states to hold free educational webinars on how the Affordable Care Act affects the small business community, and specifically, how small businesses can get some … [Read more...] about Educating Small Businesses About New Healthcare Law
Committed To Serving Up Quality
Many would agree that Paul and Laura Moir are a well-matched couple. As owners of Brix and Criollo restaurants in Flagstaff, they are on the same page with values that have made the establishments popular: excellent service, sustainability and organic offerings. They met in 1996 while working in a Phoenix area restaurant. With college degrees in hand, the couple moved to Denver to try careers in the corporate world. After two years, the experience convinced them that they needed to follow … [Read more...] about Committed To Serving Up Quality
Arizonans Deciphering the Business Of Medical Marijuana
(FBN UPDATE. Beginning April 14th, Arizonans will be able to begin the process for growing marijuana. State Health Director Will Humble is announcing the applications are available at his agency's website. Patients will need to be certified by their physicians as candidates for medicinal marijuana use, before applying for permission to acquire it. Dispensaries are expected to begin selling marijuana in September; until then, people with marijuana cards who meet specifications spelled out by … [Read more...] about Arizonans Deciphering the Business Of Medical Marijuana
Business Owners Living to Hike the Red Rocks
Greg and Gracie Stevenson caught a bad case of Red Rock Fever. Avid hikers, they had been exposed to the fever for about 12 years while visiting his folks who live in Sedona. Once on the way to Phoenix to catch a flight home to Texas, they began to wonder. “Why can’t we live somewhere beautiful like Sedona?” he said. “Over the next couple of weeks, we started filling legal pads with ideas about what we could do to sustain our family.” They decided that since the whole family enjoyed … [Read more...] about Business Owners Living to Hike the Red Rocks
NAU Business Students Awarded Prestigious Internship
Two Northern Arizona University students from the W.A. Franke College of Business have been awarded the prestigious Indigo Partners, LLC internship. Brian Kent and Justine Henderson, both accounting majors, were selected after a rigorous interview process. Indigo Partners is a venture capital organization which invests in a number of different areas but has holdings in small airlines in particular. Interns spend a year with the company, traveling the world and helping to evaluate potential … [Read more...] about NAU Business Students Awarded Prestigious Internship
Haskell –New Director SBDC
Coconino Community College is announcing Kurt Haskell has been hired as the new Director of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) located at the Fourth Street Campus and Technology Center. Haskell will also oversee an office in Page Arizona at CCC's Page/Lake Powell Campus. Haskell, returns to the SBDC where he was a Small Business Analyst from 2007 through September 2009. In this capacity, he was recognized as the 2008 top business counselor in the State of Arizona for generating the … [Read more...] about Haskell –New Director SBDC
NACET Nominated for Business Incubation Association Award
The Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NACET) is being considered as the Dinah Adkins Technology Business Incubator of the Year. The award is part of the international organization called the National Business Incubation Association. Other programs being recognized include Purdue University, TECH Fort Worth and others. Winners of the 2011 NBIA Incubation Awards will be announced during the Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, April 12, at NBIA's 25th International Conference on … [Read more...] about NACET Nominated for Business Incubation Association Award
Spotlight: The Hungry Italian Restaurant
Flagstaff Business News spoke with Mark Belsanti. He owns The Hungry Italian Restaurant FBN: Why did you decide to open this type of a business? Belsanti: Da Vinci Realty LLC is a commercial real estate company that specializes in commercial brokerage. With a passion for commercial real estate, we acquire investment properties as well. In 2006, we bought the property (Sunnysie Marketplace) and leased it back to the previous owner. Once the … [Read more...] about Spotlight: The Hungry Italian Restaurant
New Speak in the Capitalist World?
Business Book Review by Constance Devereaux Shaking his fingers, face in a frown, a former professor always cautioned us to avoid the “sloppy thinking” evident in our “sloppy speaking.” He believed most people, students especially, were guilty of vague and ambiguous expressions in everyday speech, with negative consequences for thinking and decision-making. Over the past couple of years, I’ve wondered if a good finger wagging, and a really stern frown, could have steered us from the sort of … [Read more...] about New Speak in the Capitalist World?