I love this time of year. Football season is in full swing. The leaves are changing on these crisp autumn days — seems like it's the only time of the year in Northeast Ohio when it isn't either snowing or sweltering hot. This is the time of the year when you can just sit back and take a breath after the busy summer, before you settle in for the winter.

Just as your business is constantly evolving, so is your industry magazine

What a wonderful time we live in - the Information Age. Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo... there's a wealth of information at our fingertips. Personal Computers, laptops, PDAs, iPhones - we're never far from finding the answer we need.

While you may not have a TV show, you can still showcase your pride to your community

The right tools to help you run a successful business are at your fingertips. Don't let it slip away.

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We all know what a bucket is. But do you know why kicking one is associated with dying? The link between buckets and death can be traced back to way before 1785, when the phrase was defined in print in Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: "To kick the bucket, to die."

We need to compete on value, not price. To recruit and retain top talent, we have to start charging more so we can pay our people more.

Ever seen a zebra with spots or leopard with stripes? How' bout an optimistic journalist? It can happen — so can increased termite and general pest business, even with today's disappearing swarms and inspections, and well-publicized "housing crisis."