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• When Good Deals Go Bad 

  Every company gets stuck in contracts that aren't good for business--the long-term purchasing agreement made before market prices dropped, the...

  Inc., 11/01/07 by Dee Gill · More from publication

• THE FIVE BAD HABITS OF FAILED MOM & POPS.(Focus: Small Business) 

  Byline: Dee Gill Family-owned businesses are notorious for indulging in self-destructive behavior that would never fly in other companies....

  Crain's Chicago Business, 05/14/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• Success and succession; Firms need a plan, whether Dad's retiring today or in 20 years.(Focus: Small Business) 

  Byline: DEE GILL What do you do when you're ready to take over and Dad's dragging his feet on leaving? That's a good question, and a common...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 05/14/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• What it means to be a family; Blood, business and how they fit together.(Focus: Small Business) 

  Byline: DEE GILL Albert Miller didn't want a career at his father's North Shore furniture upholstery business. None of his six siblings did...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 05/14/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• Avoiding squabbles and other pitfalls; The good, the bad, and listening to Dad.(Focus: Small Business)(interview with Andrew Keyt)(Interview) 

  Byline: DEE GILL Andrew Keyt spends his days talking to owners of family businesses about their dreams and headaches. He's the executive...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 05/14/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• There's big money in the middle; How one man turned a hobby into a business.(Focus: Small Business)(Alan Hutchinson owner of HTMarket.com)(Company overview) 

  Byline: DEE GILL HTMarket.com has no warehouse, no inventory and only seven employees. But the company, whose revenues have grown 25% to 30% a...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 02/12/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• your FIVE QUESTIONS.(Focus: Small Business) 

  Byline: DEE GILL Failures in e-commerce used to make headlines, but you don't hear as much about busted dot-coms these days. For the most...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 02/12/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• Profits, form and function; Designing an online store can be cheap and easy, or expensive and even easier.(Focus: Small Business) 

  Byline: DEE GILL Any computer-savvy entrepreneur can build an e-commerce store in a matter of hours these days, for little or no money. But...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 02/12/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• Embracing the Web; News flash: The Internet is changing the world.(Focus: Small Business) 

  Byline: DEE GILL In the late 1990s, people who wanted to start online businesses spent $30,000 or so to build a Web site, courted venture...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 02/12/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication

• Baking and Googling.(Focus: Small Business)(Solomon's Gourmet Cookies )(Brief article) 

  Byline: Dee Gill Type in "gourmet cookies'' on Google, and Solomon's Gourmet Cookies comes up third under the non-sponsored links. How did...

  Crain's Chicago Business, 02/12/07 by Gill, Dee · More from publication