Biz941 briefs: from the pages of our business magazine.CLEAR FOCUS When the cash registers are ringing, how do almost all business owners react? Rejoice, hire, sell more, work to keep things under control, and pray that overheated o·ver·heat v. o·ver·heat·ed, o·ver·heat·ing, o·ver·heats v.tr. 1. To heat too much. 2. To cause to become excited, agitated, or overstimulated. v.intr. growth won't blow up the company. Landscape photographer Clyde Butcher Clyde Butcher (b. 1942) is an American photographer, best known for wilderness photography of the Florida landscape. Background Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1942, Butcher led a nomadic lifestyle with his parents until attending California Polytechnic University in , founder of Big Cypress Gallery in the Everglades and The Venice Gallery in south Sarasota, and his wife and daughter instead cultivated a stay-small strategy that is returning big profits. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YOU BE THE BOSS Sarasota-Bradenton is the second-best market for small businesses in the country--one of only four markets among 75 metropolitan areas rated to have more than 3,000 small businesses per 100,000 residents. "Sarasota is a magnet," says business broker Robert Servian. "I would say that at least half of our buyers now come from beyond 50 miles." A BITTER AFTERTASTE aftertaste /af·ter·taste/ (-tast?) a taste continuing after the substance producing it has been removed. af·ter·taste n. When real-estate markets sour, owners of luxury homes and condos sometimes believe their properties are immune to a downturn, just as their own lives are immune to the daily economic tribulations of those pitiful pit·i·ful adj. 1. Inspiring or deserving pity. 2. Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. See Synonyms at pathetic. 3. Archaic Filled with pity or compassion. Janes and Joes forced to reside in those tacky $600,000 hovels out by the Interstate in·ter·state adj. Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states. n. One of a system of highways extending between the major cities of the 48 contiguous United States. Noun 1. . Alas, reality and theory don't always coincide. Robert Plunket finds this and other truths at an ultra-luxury real estate auction. |
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