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Delaware County Leadership: Brian Selander, Entrepreneur In Residence at SeventySix Capital
Brian Selander, Entrepreneur In Residence at SeventySix Capital and the speaker at next week’s Suburban Philadelphia Speaker Series presentation on the emergence of eSports, speaks to DELCO Today about growing up in Piscataway, finding his way into journalism and then politics before he graduated high school and working on Senator Bill Bradley’s 1992 presidential campaign. Selander…
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DELCO Today’s Readers Share Their Thoughts on 9/11
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a day that will forever live in infamy in the collective heart and mind of America. Last week, DELCO Today asked its readers across the Delaware Valley a few questions regarding of the events of 9/11. Here’s a small sample of their…
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Brandywine, September 11, 1777
Publisher’s note: The terrorist attack on New York City and Washington DC in 2001 is one of four tragic American events to happen on September 11th. In addition to the terrorist attack 16 years ago, the Battle of the Brandywine in Chadds Ford in 1777, the first death of the civil war in Christiana, 1…
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Share Your 9/11 Story
While it may not seem possible, the 16th anniversary of 9/11 is next Monday. Take our five-question survey and tell us where you were, what you were doing, your most vivid memory of the day and what impact, if any, the events of that day had on your life. The questions will remain open until…
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United Way Announces Houston Flood Relief Fund
United Way for Greater Houston has launched the United Way Flood Relief Fund to help support their community in the aftermath of Harvey. The devastation will be great and their community will need incredible resources to recover. United Way’s first priority will be safety, shelter and basic needs, like food. Once the community is stabilized,…
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OD Chatter: Must Small Business Owners Follow Federal FMLA and ADA Directives?
Dear OD Chatter, I am a small business owner and wonder if FMLA is something I have to honor here in PA? One of my employees has asked me to change her hours from 8-5 to 10-7 for what I guess is an acceptable medical reason. I’m normally open from 8 to 5 but I’m…
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OD Chatter: Motivating Employees When The Boss Is Away
Dear OD Chatter, My guys are great when I am on the construction site, they are on top of everything to the point where they notice things that can cause future problems and try to fix it now. That’s when I’m on site, when I am not on site project time-lines expand eating up the…
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OD Chatter: My Boss is Asking Mislead HR
Dear OD Chatter, I am less than 30 days on my new job, a job I was super excited to accept. However the senior leader who hired me and to whom I report has asked me to lie to administration. The gist is that he didn’t have the right to give me the amount of…
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Maximizing Your Local Search Visibility
By Julie Friedman Bacchini Search Engine Optimization used to be pretty easy – create relevant title tags for web pages and content that used the keywords you wanted to be found for and voila, page one Google positioning. Or create a page for each town you wanted to target and talk about your product or…
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‘Day 1’ Philosophy of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Can Transform Contentment and Attrition in Business
By Gina F. Rubel In a recent letter to his Amazon shareholders, CEO Jeff Bezos gives a lay of the proverbial “Day 1” landscape, while warning against the stasis of “Day 2.” He says that a company can never stop being a start-up and believes that company leadership need always think like they did on…
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OD Chatter: Fed-up with Madam
Dear OD Chatter, I am a supervisor and have an employee ‘Madam Not-reasonable’ who, no matter how poorly she does her job I am blocked from doing anything about it by my bosses. My manager said that I am picking on her but no I am not. Other employees, who complain about having to pick…
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Book Notes: Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
By Leslie Finkel What a great read! Funny and insightful, Getting Naked uses a “fable” to illustrate how best to market management consulting services – however, the model that the author, Paul Lencioni posits is applicable across any business that builds and manages client relationships. Lencioni owns a management consulting firm and is the New…
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OD Chatter: I Miss Work One Day and HR Writes Me Up! Not Fair!
Dear OD Chatter, I have been with my company for over a year and have never been told anything other than I do a great job, people like me, all good. Then, after missing a day of work due to car trouble, I went into work and my manager said ‘glad to have you back’…
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Digital Advertising Really Can Work for B2B
By Julie Friedman Bacchini There seems to be a bit of a persistent myth out there that digital marketing, pay per click advertising in particular, is not effective for business to business (B2B) companies. We have certainly heard these particular refrains, or something of their ilk pretty frequently: “Our sales cycles are so long, AdWords…
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OD Chatter: How Can I Get This New Assignment?
By Debra Dee Bradford Dear OD Chatter, I work in retail and am just starting my career. Anyway I keep asking for more responsibility like taking over the stock room. The stock room is a mess and not only can I fix that (thanks to my Mom always harping on neatness) that position would pay…
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Delaware County Leadership – Bill Hieb, President & CEO of DNB Financial
Bill Hieb, President and CEO of DNB Financial, parent company of DNB First, the oldest nationally chartered community bank serving the Greater Philadelphia region, recently sat down with DELCO Today. He discussed growing up in Drexel Hill, his swimming prowess at Bonner and then Penn State, wanting to be a veterinarian and discovering a love…
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OD Chatter: I Need What I Need
Dear OD Chatter, I am the owner of a company and have a question: I will soon need to add a senior leader to my company but I want to get a jump on time by allowing a top candidate access to my company’s internal communication systems that contain details that describe how each job…
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