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Bad Roads In the Bakken

A few years back you could sail on down the roads in Western North Dakota without fear of losing a tire or having the bottom of your transmission pan abruptly removed by the highway. The Bakken Oil boom has been a mixed blessing of plentiful work and lots of money. However, workers are moving to [...]

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Salespeople and Service Reps Can Get Along. Really.

I met my husband on a street corner.  Really, I did, but probably not in the way you are thinking.  He wasn’t a Boy Scout helping me across the street and I wasn’t scouting for entertainment.  It was actually a happy ending to a ridiculous situation, a situation that would have been unnecessary if everyone [...]

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“Run the Play” – Oil is Back !

The Pack is Back ! With 16 seconds left in the game and down by 3 points, the Green Bay Packers called their final time-out. It was 3rd and goal on the Dallas 2 foot line. In the huddle, with the game on the line, Quarterback Bart Starr asked Kramer whether he could get enough [...]

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Area Lodging Industry Improving…

One segment of the economy that has shown improvement in the Billings area is the lodging industry.  STR (Smith Travel Research, Inc.) has been providing market data in North-American since 1985.  STR and STR Global provides market data for thousands of lodging facilities representing 5.5 million rooms worldwide.  They track performance such as Occupancy, Average [...]

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Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC

As we grow through life we tended to become a little jaded.  Most of us can easily recount in great detail the times we have been disappointed.  Essentially, we become much more difficult to impress.  So, when I was first introduced to Dr. Joe Michels, the principal at Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC, my initial thoughts were, [...]