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This article is about women becoming creative in their marketing strategies to build their business. Women are natural connectors and relationship marketing such as networking and hosting parties, gatherings come very easily to them. The “old-school” way of cold-calling and solicitation for business is not nearly as effective anymore. This article offers some creative ways to think about marketing your service or business.

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America’s Blue-Collar Banker: The Early Years of Amadeo Peter “A.P.” Giannini
Home mortgages, auto loans, installment credit – they may be taken for granted today, but before this son of Italian immigrants came along, such things didn’t exist. Amadeo Peter Giannini – A.P. to his friends – revolutionized the banking world by focusing on “the little people.” Giannini passed away in 1949 at the age of 79. By that time, the bank he had founded, the Bank of America, had become the largest bank in the world, with $7 billion in assets and more than 525 branches in over 300 American cities. Today, Giannini stands out as one of TIME Magazine’s Builders and Titans of the 20th century – the only banker to make this list of the century’s most 100 important people.

Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
Microsoft may be the largest global software corporation, but it is another one of Gates’ institutions that is beginning to make headlines around the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is currently the largest charitable foundation in the world – and the largest ever in history, was established in 2000 by the billionaire couple to help in the fight against extreme poverty, to work to improve global healthcare, and also to expand access to education and technology in the United States.

AIG Insurance
With headquarters in Paris, France and Hong Kong, China, and operations in more than 130 countries, the New York City-based AIG Insurance Company is one of the largest of its kind in the world. It stands for American International Group and, according to Forbes, it is the sixth largest company in the world. If that was not enough to make it known to the world, the company has also become a sponsor of one of the most popular English football clubs, Manchester United.

A Tough Life: Carnegie Makes Good with Steel
By the late 1880s, Carnegie had established himself as the world’s largest manufacturer of raw iron, steel-rails and coke. After purchasing rival Homestead Steel Works in 1888, Carnegie integrated his assets together under the Carnegie Steel Company. Worth an estimated $25 million, Carnegie became the proud owner of the world’s largest steel company.

The Good CEO: The Early Years of Costco's Jim Sinegal
The average customer visits their local Costco 22 times a year. The company has become one of the largest in the U.S., with 473 outlets and more than $50 billion in sales, and is also the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world. Its founder and CEO, Jim Sinegal, has been called the Sam Walton of the 21st century for his low-key style and seeming defiance of all things Wall Street. But, whether investors like him or not, America – and much of the rest of the world – has fallen in love with his discount depots.

Competitive Cities as Drivers of Growth
Africa has the world's fastest rate of urbanization, Ade Animashahun, Managing Director, Investec Asset Management, South Africa, told participants at the start of the session on competitive cities. But, what are the key ingredients to ensuring that the growing cities are competitive and drivers of growth? he asked.

The King of the Skies: Herb Kelleher Gets His Start
Almost 40 years ago, Herb Kelleher came up with a radical idea: He wanted to start a no-frills airline that not only ensured people got to where they wanted to go and at low prices, but that they had fun doing it. Today, the small Texas airline he founded in 1971 has become the second largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. Southwest Airlines carries over 100 million passengers to 63 cities across the U.S. each year.

The Sandwich King: The Early Years of Subway’s Fred DeLuca
Fred DeLuca was nothing more than a kid from “The Projects”, looking for a way to pay his college tuition when he opened up a sandwich store in Bridgeport, Connecticut. At the time, he could not even afford the $25 lawyer’s fee he needed to sign the lease. That was back in 1956. Today, his store has blossomed into the third largest fast food chain in the world. Subway remains one of the largest global privately held companies and earns revenues in excess of $9.5 billion.

Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Highlight the potential of Uranium and Nuclear Power
Following Iran’s announcement today that they plan to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, nuclear power once again finds itself in the headlines. But although Iran’s plans are being vilified by the media, governments and environmentalists have both admitted that Nuclear power is the only viable alternative to Oil and gas and also essential to averting further damage from Global warming. This is why the Uranium market is set for rapid expansion and the country investors should be looking to is Kazakhstan, as not only do they contain the world’s second largest Uranium reserves and are the world’s third largest producer – they are also looking to rapidly increase their output and inviting foreign firms to help with their expansion program.

Easy Bill Franchise to expand to 15,000, nationwide
Easy Bill is an initiative of Hero Group to make billing easier. The company has plans to expand its centres to 200 cities within the next two years via franchise route. At present, the company has expanded to approximately 50 cities pan India.

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