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Making Waves

The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show will be full of glitz, glamor and mega yachts – plus more modest craft for those of us who just want to go fish.

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Retail rebound

 You don’t have to look much further than the local street corner to realize retail is back in South Florida.  New retail developments have begun to spring up like lilacs

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SFBW Advisory Board Meets

South Florida Business & Wealth held its first advisory board meeting with a cocktail hour reception at Morton’s The Steakhouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The board will meet periodically to

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Talking Turkey about Networking, Outside Investors, & Education

This month our show had some awesome guests.  Ivan Misner, the Founder and Chairman of BNI – the world’s largest networking organization – was fascinating. He’s often called the father

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Business at the Speed of Happiness

In most of our businesses and organizations, our model, service or technology is really not our differentiator. Success is determined by the quality of our people and how they relate

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Don’t skip a step

I’m often surprised about how inconsistent businesses are when it comes to hiring sales people. They may not have an organized procedure and many entrepreneurs rely on gut instinct.  In

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Talk about interest rate jitters

Trying to figure out what’s happening with the Fed and interest rates is a major sport on CNBC and Bloomberg, but one of the top tea leaf readers nationally is

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TigerDirect’s “tech bash” at new Marlins Park, expected to draw over 20,000 visitors

Move over baseball lovers! On Nov. 7 Marlins Park will have a different crowd of fans in its stands. The park will be the venue of TigerDirect’s third annual “Tech

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Life in the Fast Lane

He may be the reigning Indy 500 champion, but Ryan Hunter-Reay has only one thing on his mind at the moment – not waking toddler son Ryden from the ever-important afternoon

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Abe Dababneh

Cigar retailing is typified by a guy who loves to smoke and opens one store. Abe Dababneh has built an empire. His Smoke Inn stores have grown to 12 locations

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How to build a family business success(ion) plan

About 90 percent of all businesses in the United States are owned or controlled by families, but only 30 percent make it successfully to the second generation. Only 10 to

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Tame email hell, enhance security

Document management nightmares usually begin innocuously with those email attachments that go back and forth among clients, business partners and others. Soon these documents grow too large for mailboxes to

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