Volume 5 – March 31st 2010

Events

Wind River Business Conference/Native American Business Expo

Come celebrate the 10th Annual Native American Business Expo Wind River Business Conference and learn how to expand your business through marketing techniques and government procurement.

Event will be in Lander on April 22nd.

More details, the brochure and registration form are available here...

News and Articles

Defeating Discouragement

Discouragement tastes bitter, feels overwhelming, reeks of quitting, looks like surrender, and sounds like failure. The toughest battles we fight are internal. Our toughest opponents are ourselves. Discouragement is a battle of wills: "Will I quit? Will I press on?"

Is This as Good as it Gets?

Recessions may take the wind out of your sails for a while until you gain some momentum, but the Great Recession of 2008-09 has really beached some people and some companies.

Cocky or Confident?

Even though it seems that in sales there is a razor�s edge difference between cocky and confident, it is really a chasm that runs deeper than a label.

Learn more about appearing confident and not cocky...

Forum brings Wyo. companies, Brazilian business consultant together for growth

A U.S.-Brazil Business Development Forum will be held this week to help Wyoming-based companies establish and grow strategic business partnerships in the emerging, giant South American market of Brazil. The event is co-sponsored by the Wyoming Business Council, Manufacturing-Works, and the Wyoming Chapter of Partners of the Americas (PoA), a private, non-government organization (NGO) established in 1964 with a mission to build institutional, community and professional leadership networks linking the Americas and Caribbean cultures and economies.

Read the full article on the Wyoming Business Council�s website...

CANDO helps get you Lean

Recently, CANDO received a USDA grant that paid for Lean Manufacturing training courses to area businesses. The first training seminar, free to the businesses participating, took place Feb. 25 at Eastern Wyoming College.

Read the full article written by Brendan Burnett-Kurie, reporter for the Douglas Budget....

Pro Tips

Newer equipment may pay for itself

Check the vintage on your heating and cooling systems. Many furnaces, boilers and AC units over 20 years old can be replaced and the payoff for these units can be just a few years considering the superior efficiency of newer units. There may also be federal assistance for replacing old systems. If you are looking at new construction consider air or ground source heat pumps as an alternative to gas or electric.

Contact Ed Werner (307-358-2007 or wernersolutions@msn.com) for more information on making your business more energy efficient.

Don't force your employees to be supervisors

Organizations should have try-outs for supervisors. Not everyone will succeed at being a supervisor, but if they don't like it or don't do it well, they should be able to go back to doing what they did so well that someone wanted to make them a supervisor. People who try out for high school teams don't have to leave school if they don't make the team!

Contact Barry Bruns for more info on how to make the most out of your workforce.