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• Don Ranly honored, Megan St. John joins.(NL/NL masthead notes)

  - 2005-07-05

  Editorial Advisory Board member Don Ranly Ph.D. received ASBPE's Lifetime Achievement Award on June 21 in Cleveland, at the Rock + Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Plus, Megan St. John, the noted newsletter and information-services consultant in market strategy and planning, has joined...

  Tags: consultant, Dr., Fax, MARKETING, newsletter, University of Missouri

• Love us, hate us

  - 2005-05-02

  A NEW STUDY FROM THE University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia shows that Americans have somewhat of a love-hate attitude toward journalism, but it's not as bad as many portray it. The survey says most Americans believe news coverage is biased and negative, but 62 percent consider...

  Tags: journalism, Journalism, journalist, MARKETING, Strategy, TVs, University of Missouri

• Selecting an Appropriate Pricing Strategy

  BNET - 2005-05-01

  The focus of this paper is the selection of an appropriate pricing strategy for value-added agricultural products. Selecting a pricing strategy for one's product is critical, because price is the most highly visible element of all marketing efforts. Consumers and competitors easily can access pricing information on goods sold at...

  Tags: University Of Missouri, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing

• St. Charles County to help first-time home buyers

  - 2005-03-29

  A course offered by University of Missouri Extension Center, called H.O.M.E. Home Ownership Made Easier, will help home buyers learn how to get the most out of their home-buying dollars. The course will be offered from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5 and 12, at the development center, 425 Spencer...

  Tags: MARKETING, University of Missouri

• John Barron was born in Texas, graduated from the University of Missouri, and studied Russian in the Navy

  - 2005-03-28

  * John Barron was born in Texas, graduated from the University of Missouri, and studied Russian in the Navy. After serving as an intelligence officer in Berlin for two years, he embarked on a new career as a journalist, first for the Washington Star and then, from 1965 to 1991,...

  Tags: CAREER, MARKETING, Texas, University of Missouri

• Imprecision

  - 2004-11-01

  Availing space in whichwe live and move and cometo glimpse the import ofour being. Openingoccasion of our brief,expansive guess that whenwe're after meaning, moreis always likelierto please than the commonlot of less with which ourfrequent expeditionsare in the main rewarded.Such lacunae lend usall their agency, eachand every time we deign,to...

  Tags: agency, MARKETING, professor, University of Missouri

• Crop Tech

  - 2004-09-26

  Soy Gets Better You can never be too rich or too thin, as the saying goes. Monsanto has announced the launch of Vistive soybeans, a new type of soybeans that might help farmers capture a premium and help the general public eat a little healthier. ...

  Tags: Branding, food, Manufacturing, MARKETING, Michigan State University, Monsanto, Roundup, University of Missouri

• CityBusiness rated No. 2 U.S. business newspaper

  - 2004-07-26

  New Orleans CityBusiness has been named the No. 2 business newspaper in the nation in its class by the Association of Area Business Publications. CityBusiness was runner-up to Mainebiz. Imagine writing about NFL players investing their fortunes or figuring the take from the Southern Decadence festival or reporting...

  Tags: Judge, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, University of Missouri

• Coming events--.(Who, What, When & Where)

  - 2004-03-31

  * "Spend a Day with Don Ranly: Reinventing Print," April 21, 2004, Ayres Country Inn & Suites, Costa Mesa, CA, sponsored by the Southern California chapter of NEPA. Don Ranly, renowned University of Missouri journalism professor and expert on writing, editing and publishing (and...

  Tags: blurb, FINANCE, INTERNET, journalism, MARKETING, Portals, University of Missouri, workshop

• Registration of S97-1688 soybean germplasm line high in protein content and resistant to soybean cyst nematode.(Registrations Of Germplasms)

  - 2004-03-01

  Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] germplasm line 'S97-1688' (Reg. no GP-300, PI 633736) was developed at the Delta Center of the University of Missouri, Portageville, MO, and released by The Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. This line has value as a parent because of its competitive yield...

  Tags: Branding, MARKETING, Paris, protein, Sanmina-SCI Corp., SECURITY, University of Missouri