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Realizing success with an early entry to e-business (access required)

by Becky Hurley Published: September 13,2002

Tags: online, residential real estate

Some folks thrive – even when faced with a roller-coaster economy. Take Warren and Christine Meacham, for example. As owners of Colorado Online Mortgage (formerly Auer Mortgage), Christine, a mortgage broker since the mid-1980s and Warren, a former commercial banker, have survived sky-high 11 to 14 percent home loan interest rates and skimpy realtor referrals [...] [...]

Technology keeps callers well connected (access required)

by admin Published: September 6,2002

Tags: high tech, online, telecommunications, Wireless

Forget the cell phone of yesterday… just take a look at what is available today. Today’s phones will connect you directly to the Internet, at speeds faster than a regular dial-up computer. They let you send pictures, e-mail, make phone calls and play games. In addition, many of them do it in color. Sprint’s PCS Vision features [...] [...]

Real Estate Briefs September 6, 2002 (access required)

by Becky Hurley Published: September 6,2002

Tags: Housing, Industrial Real Estate, online, residential real estate, Retailing

Masterbilt Homes Introduces Fresh Concept Every once in a while a homebuilder steps outside the box and starts a completely new trend. Jack Weipking, president of Masterbilt Homes, certainly gets credit for taking a very large step in introducing the Pikes Peak region to Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND), which has evolved around the country as an [...] [...]

Commentary: Extended markup language and how it applies to you (access required)

by admin Published: August 16,2002

Tags: high tech, online

Q. Let’s start with the basics, what is XML? A. Like any “markup language,” it’s used to introduce additional information into a stream of text. It allows for the placement of special markers around pieces of text, thereby providing new, relevant data concerning the original text. Q. Where does it come from? A. Its [...] [...]

Commentary: Quick tutorial on tech lingo (access required)

by admin Published: August 16,2002

Tags: high tech, online

As someone who runs a business, you may have learned many of your weaknesses the hard way. You learned to overcome your accounting phobia. You figured out that marketing isn’t just a college course (or heaven forbid, a major).You’ve even learned that there are difficult customers and difficult employees, and you can only fire the [...] [...]

Commentary: Offline marketing for your website is important (access required)

by admin Published: August 16,2002

Tags: Marketing and Advertising, Media, online

We have all heard the Internet gurus preach of the importance of search engine positioning and online promotion. Yet many website owners forget the very simplest of ways to promote your business offline. Why do I need to do offline promotion when I’m promoting an online business? The reason is simple. The concept of a paperless [...] [...]

In-debt shopper's website asks for $1 donations (access required)

by admin Published: August 9,2002

Tags: online, Retailing

Girls just wanna have fun. As a transplanted Midwesterner in New York City, Karyn put over $20,000 worth of fun on her credit cards. But then the Brooklyn woman was laid off and spent four months looking for employment. Her creditors weren’t sympathetic. So, she did the only logical thing a 21st century girl could [...] [...]

Rising star applies e-technology tools to marketing (access required)

by Becky Hurley Published: July 26,2002

Tags: high tech, Marketing and Advertising, online, residential real estate, Sports

Taa Dixon, a 1994 Colorado College grad with a flair for big-picture thinking, started 720 Media, a website design and strategic marketing firm in Colorado Springs. Two years later, her company has already developed an enviable list of premier marketing accounts. This rising star in the Pikes Peak region’s entrepreneurial skies heads a young team [...] [...]

Strategic partnerships key to network dynamics (access required)

by Becky Hurley Published: July 5,2002

Tags: high tech, Military, online, telecommunications, Wireless

Imagine this: You are the CEO of a company that generates hundreds of thousands of data files each year. Your back-up systems include standard servers and secured off-site storage. But September 11 happens or a wild fire threatens your facility. Suddenly greater security is an issue, but you can’t justify the cost [...] [...]

Old Colorado Springs bed & breakfast serves up video conferencing (access required)

by admin Published: July 5,2002

Tags: high tech, Hotels and Lodging, online, telecommunications

In the dark days following the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, many businesses suffered major revenue losses. Many didn’t recover, and lots that did found new niches for their services.Locally, Old Town Guesthouse in Old Colorado City was among the survivors, but not by doing business as usual.“The terrorist attacks hurt our [...] [...]

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