A life detour brings artist to Des Moines and Mainframe Studios. With five different college majors in 11 years, Amy O’Brien struggled deciding what to do with her life. She waited tables. She tried marketing. She attempted interior design. She once owned a restaurant. She even tried her hand as
Read More →Purchasing cards (p-cards) are a type of commercial credit card that allow acompany’s employees to make payments without using a traditional, paper-basedprocess. P-cards are popular among corporations due to a number of benefits: 1. Efficiency – P-cards integrate with a company’s existing expense managementsystems and every transaction is automatically factored
Read More →Late spring was a time of revolution and consternation in the food world. Meatless meat thrived on. Best known to the general public as Beyond Meat, the genre is now being compared to the dot com craze of the Clinton years. BM was trading at five times its IPO value
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July 03, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Belly Up To...
Striving to keep things local When Confluence Brewing Company opened up in 2012, the staff created a handful of beers inside the brewery in an industrial district close to Gray’s Lake. With potential for expansion, the grassy area in the back offered an untapped gem with the nearby bike trail.
Read More →Every business makes mistakes. Whether it’s a company data breach or a customer mix up, the first response from marketing is to announce an apology to all customers: “This will never happen again!” The problem is, it might andeventually, it probably will happen again. According to a ZenDesk and Dartmouth
Read More →Family-owned businesses represent 64 percent of our country’s GDP. 40 percent of those companies will experience a change of ownership in the next 15 years and the unfortunate reality is that only 30 percent will transfer successfully. In fact, only 12 percent of today’s business will be viable past the
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July 03, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in Des Moines Forgotten
Big dreams were behind the Warren County track, as it was to be one of the premiere road-racing tracks in the U.S. In October of 2012, I co-hosted Home Movie Day Des Moines, a film event where people brought in their homemade 8mm and 16mm films. Janet Barcheski Green had
Read More →Attracting millennial workers is all the rage in the employment space. Generational shifts and rock-bottom unemployment leave small- and medium-sized businesses in difficult straits to find and keep good employees. Many employers feel simply priced out of the market for talent – unable to offer grandiose salaries or traditional employee
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July 03, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in People & Pets
Pets entertain with circus-like antics. When Nicky and Zach Smith moved to their home in rural Polk City, they wanted their children to be raised with animals. With three dogs, a pony and four cats, that should be enough, right? It wasn’t. Nicky began researching goats as pets and purchased
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July 03, 2019 by Brent Antisdel
in At Home With
New England vibe inside an Iowa custom-built home While in Massachusetts visiting his daughter, Lee Schweer’s breath was taken away by New England’s colonial-style homes. Upon returning to Des Moines, he went to work with the fury of a Nor’easter. Duplicating that kind of spacious, cozy and high-quality ambiance hasn’t
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