A small Tri-City startup company wants to make the exchange of business cards a thing of the past with the launch of its new mobile app.The free Solo Connect app aims to streamline business-to-business referrals and the introduction process. It’s available for Apple and Android devices.Evauk Corp.’s CEO Thomas Feduk...
Joanna Dunn and Heather Anastos came to practice and teach yoga for two different reasons.Dunn started yoga as a way to cope with and manage depression and anxiety, while Anastos practiced for therapeutic relief of neck and back pain.But Dunn said their different experiences are perhaps what makes their new...
Susan Brady is selling more than cloth diapers from her Richland store — she’s also selling a vision.[blockquote quote="We want to be a hub for everything sustainable and green." source="Susan Brady owner of Buckwheat Bottoms" align="right" max_width="300px"]Buckwheat Bottoms provides a supportive and safe community for new moms to learn about...
After the recession of 2008, increased regulatory demands significantly shifted the way the banks deliver services to their customers — but for Banner Bank, those shifts only served to strengthen relationships with customers. Last year, the bank celebrated 125 years of growth.[blockquote quote="We’re not a provider of products and services,...
The Women Helping Women Fund Tri-Cities (WHWF-TC) needs your help. On October 13, the women who sit on the board want to fill 100 tables at the nonprofit’s annual luncheon. In the past, they’ve only been able to fill between 80 and 90, but this year the need is greater...
A regal tiger stretches out in the sun, perched atop a branch. It lazily pops up its head up every few minutes and glances around.Even though relaxed, its eyes are piercing and wild. It’s a sight to behold and it’s only a few feet away — almost at arm’s reach.There...
Deidra Murphy is more than a personal stylist and fashion consultant — she empowers women to be their best, and that is the value she brings to her clients.“I want my clients to go into a board room full of staff members knowing she can command that presence and hold...
A few years ago, Jonas Rosenberg of Summit Funding and Ken Marsh, owner of P2 Promotional Products were seeking a different kind of networking group.[blockquote quote="I contribute a great deal of my business growth to connections gained at LINK." source="Ben Anderson, social media consultant at CnctNow" align="right" max_width="300px"]Both men, who...
Dressed in pink shirts and pink hard hats, an engaged group of high school girls looked steadily focused on the job at hand. Some build planter boxes; others lay cement, transforming it into garden steps; and some of the young women operate saws with natural ease, like they’d worked in...
Melinda Merrill is only 15, but she already knows exactly what to do when her company faces danger of bankruptcy due to an increasingly obsolete product offering. She cuts costs and controls marketing expenses.These were decisions she and her team at Richland High School had to make as part of...
