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Stop trashing meetings and incentives travel: It brings ROI
Negative press screams of squandering CEOs, but the truth is meetings and incentive travel brings ROI, and the same metrics used to quantify other business expenses ought to be used to quantify meeting and incentive travel. By Robert Polk

More ugly: Worst quarterly performance since '82
Forecasting economists were surprised in very late January when the U.S. Commerce Department announced that the U.S. gross domestic product declined at a 3.8 percent real -- after inflation -- annual rate. By Jeff Thredgold

How to keep old office furniture out of landfills
Kathey Pear, a longtime Colorado-based furniture dealer, founded FACILITYcycle.com to help match businesses, nonprofits and others getting rid of office furnishings with those who need it. By Dan Ray

From the March issue

Sports biz: Broomfield's dream deferred
With its professional teams failing to fill the building and losses mounting, the Broomfield Event Center is on the ropes. By Stewart Schley

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Attention Women-Owned Companies

Nominate your company for ColoradoBiz magazine's annual ranking of the state's Top 100 Women-Owned Companies. Click here. The Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce and ColoradoBiz are hosting a reception for the companies that make the rankings, 5 to 6 p.m., April 30 at the Seawell Ballroom, 1101 13th St., Denver. Following the reception, the companies are invited to attend the annual Athena Award Gala at a discounted rate. For more information contact eleake@cwcc.org, (303)458-0220.

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Building your brand to snag the job
Smooch Repovich Reynolds, of The Repovich-Reynolds Group, on executive recruiting, reinventing your personal career brand, and the importance of curiosity in communication.

Gov. Bill Ritter on the state of Colorado's real estate industry
Gov. Bill Ritter talks about what the state has been hearing from economic experts: we won't see the bottom until late in 2009 and possibly not until 2010.

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Channel 7 and ColoradoBiz on "The Road to Recovery"
As the economy continues to challenge businesses and consumers, KMGH Channel 7 and ColoradoBiz are collaborating on stories that explore how businesses are coping - and succeeding - despite the downturn. Look for new installments of "The Road to Recovery" at 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays, during the second half of the 4 p.m. broadcast. You can also find them online at TheDenverChannel.com.