Recent Articles

• Is luxury the only market left for interior designers?

  Lloyd Princeton Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  As consumers’ appreciation of and desire for good design have increased in the past decade or so, competitors of all sorts have rushed in to try to fill the gap between what consumers want and what they can afford. This has put pressure on designers to lower their fees and work with smaller budgets, thereby reducing their profitability. With little indication that this situation will change anytime soon, it begs the question as to whether the luxury market is the only viable one left for today’s designers.

• Hints and ideas for boondocking

  Cindy Belt Recreation & Leisure

  There are many terms for kinds of camping, and each has a slightly different definition. Dispersed camping is more of a government term for dry camping spread out on national lands. Some locations are free and some have a minimal fee. Boondocking can be free camping or dispersed camping. Black top boondocking is a subset of boondocking that takes place when you camp in a parking lot. We don’t boondock all the time, but we like to reduce our expenses by boondocking several times a month. Here are some hints and ideas for boondocking.

• Bids with no capture

  Brenda Crist Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  I confess. I have bid work without any previous capture effort and no firsthand knowledge of the customer’s requirements. I understand that I just violated every proposal industry best practice. It is clear, bidding without any knowledge of the customer requirements greatly diminishes the chance of winning and increases transition and operational risks. So why do companies bid work without any capture effort when, on paper, it makes no sense?

• The impact of stable school leadership

  Brian Stack Education

  When the school year comes to a close this month, one Arkansas school will have big shoes to fill at its helm, as longtime Southside High School Principal Wayne Haver has his final curtain call after 36 years in the role as principal and 48 years of service to the district as a whole. Without question, Haver is an exception to the rule. He represents a rare breed of school principals that continue to stay loyal to their school communities and buck the alarming trend of principal turnover that is plaguing many school communities in this country.

• The digital trends you need to know to do your job better

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  Want to market your company’s products or services better? Of course, you do! Who doesn’t? But to do that, you can’t just zero in on the latest marketing tricks. You also must understand the greater media landscape. No other report does a better job of capturing that than Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trend Reports. She outlines the biggest changes in internet usage, advertising, e-commerce, social media and more.

• Physicians unhappy with EHRs may have unhappy patients, too

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  Physicians unhappy with an EHR system could pass that sentiment on to their patients — in the form of lower patient satisfaction scores, so says a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. That makes complete sense, of course. How many times have you expressed discontent about some object or form of technology only to see those same sentiments reflected in the attitudes of your spouse or partner, children or co-workers?

• 7 tips to perfect word-of-mouth marketing at your PT practice

  Jarod Carter Sports & Fitness

  While online marketing may be shiny and glamorous, word-of-mouth marketing is the bedrock of any successful cash-based physical therapy practice. But it doesn’t always "just happen organically," and there are many ways to maximize these types of referrals for your private practice. In this article, Jarod Carter shares the most successful methods he uses at his clinic to get high-converting reviews and word-of-mouth referrals from his patients.

• Developing a sustainable cooling industry for the future

  Andrew Gaved Manufacturing

  The present view from the cooling industry in Europe has something of an air of déjà vu about it. There are tightening markets, and therefore significantly rising costs for higher-GWP refrigerants like R404A. The industry is dealing with general consternation from end-users that they are having to pay more than they forecast even a year or two ago, and mild panic from AC contractors that R410A is no longer available from some wholesalers. These views were all represented, or reported, at RAC’s recent F-Gas Question Time.

• Employers add 223,000 jobs in May; unemployment falls to 3.8 percent

  Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The labor market is cooking. Nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 223,000 in May versus 164,000 in April, as the unemployment rate dipped to 3.8 percent from April’s 3.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Employment growth rose in construction, health care and retail. Unemployment for some major worker groups also dipped in May vs. April.

• What to make of the drop in pharmacy school enrollments

  Jason Poquette Pharmaceutical

  In his excellent blog, Kevin Mero, the president of PharmacyWeek, detailed the latest data on pharmacy school enrollments…and for the first time ever, they are all down! The data come from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) website and refers to the latest information from 2017. Could this be the tipping point for the infusion of pharmacists into workforce? And what does a downward trend in pharmacy school enrollment mean?

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