Who's Sitting at Your Table?

The New Year gets me thinking about beginnings and endings. Where do you want to be in one year, or five, and how are you going to get there? How did I get here? For me, it started when I was four. We had Domino’s pizza for Thanksgiving and moved …

Oneupweb Alums: Where are they now?

When Lisa Wehr relocated Oneupweb from Alaska to Traverse City in 2000, there weren’t many companies of its ilk in the area. Founded in 1996, the search marketing company had started out as a subsidiary of Alaska Web Art, a website design firm also owned by Wehr. When Wehr moved …

Coming to a watercooler near you, Newsmakers for 2018

What people, places and products will make news locally in the new year and how will it affect your business? Following is a sampling of the who, what, and where we'll be talking about – and why.

See the January print edition for the entire What to Watch list, written …

TentCraft Takes Flight: CEO stakes future on American-made; online custom orders

After years of expansion, TentCraft is staking its future on reinvestment.

“The past three or four years have been huge growth years. Next year will tick up just slightly," said Matt Bulloch, president and CEO. "It is going to be about reinvestment.”

The genesis of the company began when Paul …

Making an Impact in 2018 and Beyond

There are all sorts of axioms, proverbs and “old sayings” that underscore a very basic truism – it’s better to be in on the front end of a decision than trying to reverse or work around it once made.

It’s certainly true in business. A day rarely goes by that …

Dollars and Sense: How we Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

By Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler

Published Nov. 7, 2017, Harper Collins Publishers, 288 Pages

Reviewed by Chris Wendel

Hardcover $28; softcover $16; e-book edition $15

In a nutshell: All buying decisions are emotional decisions. The new book “Dollars and Sense” explains how our buying choices are impacted by a …