News from In Business - Brookings ranks Madison 5th nationally for tech sector

August 4, 2016

Web-Exclusive Features

Finding lost jewelry and saving marriages

Madisonian Dan Roekle is turning a hobby of finding lost things into a business focused on reuniting people with their misplaced valuables with LostandFoundRing.com.

Toppers' fundraiser to help family
of deceased worker

Toppers Pizza in Fitchburg is hosting a fundraiser Friday, Aug. 5, to benefit the family of prep cook Laron House, who died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack.

Business Report

> Brookings ranks Madison 5th nationally for tech sector

> Verona aircraft aftermarket firm sold

> Fitchburg Staybridge breaks ground

> Spectrum beats Wall Street expectations

> First Business reports 2Q results

Be a better board volunteer

Fundraising Day Wisconsin offers a special half-day board track this year with national experts in nonprofit board governance and fundraising on Aug. 18, 2016 at the Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee. This one-day conference put on by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in Greater Madison and South Central Wisconsin, has national experts including Gail Perry, Chuck Loring, Rachel Muir, and Rebecca Fishman Lipsey speaking on Making the Ask, Planned Giving, and Major Gifts, among other topics.

For information and registration visit fundraisingdaywi.com.

Blogs

Bring It! A conservative blog by David Blaska

Madison police supporters counter racism complaint made to the feds

Open Mic A guest blog by Amber Swenor

Benefit customers, clients by teaching what you know

IB Seminar: Implementing The Challenger Sale

Presented by Chuck West,
Wisconsin School of Business, Executive Education

Today, companies primarily use the internet to source vendors and rarely make personal contact with them. Research referenced in the Harvard Business Review indicates that 60% of companies make complex B2B purchases without any contact with a vendor's sales force. These findings are published in The Challenge Sale, which offers insight into the future of sales. However, it doesn't share how to execute the process. That's where Chuck West comes in. At the next IB Seminar, you will learn concrete steps to execute The Challenger Sale process for high-performance results in today's changing sales climate.

Learn more!

IB Poll

Madison would have likely played host to cycling events had Chicago won its 2016 Olympics bid. Do you wish the Olympics were being hosted here rather than in Rio?

A. Yes, it would have been a boon for tourism and helped showcase our area on an international stage.

B. No, Olympic hosts consistently lose money and are left with hastily constructed, unusable infrastructure afterward.

To cast your vote, click here and then scroll down to the IB Poll on the right-hand side of the page.

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Results from last week's poll question:

Are you more or less likely to vote for Hillary Clinton following this week's proceedings at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia?