Today, Wabash Station operates as the main office for COMO Connect, formerly known as Columbia Transit, the city-owned public bus system. Wabash Station is a one-story, H-plan Jacobean building, according to the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 126 N. Tenth Street, it sits on a stone and concrete foundation, with a partial basement […]
At the end of September, as the summer began to soften in Columbia, a team of executives from Columbia Insurance Group attended the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies annual conference in San Diego. One of the keynote speakers was Eric Wahl, a renowned graffiti artist and motivational speaker, but decidedly not an insurance executive.
Selling is a risky affair. What if people don’t buy from you? What if they don’t like what they buy? What if the costs of doing business outpace the revenue coming in? I can’t alleviate all your worries, but I can give you three strategies to take some of the risk out of selling. Reach
We call a sandwich with ham in the middle a ham sandwich. But when you read a menu, is it the ham that entices you to order the sandwich? Here’s what I mean. Which sandwich would you order? Honey Ham Griller: Thick-sliced honey baked ham, just how your grandma makes it, on buttered Texas toast
Why I’m passionate about my job: I enjoy working with entrepreneurs, and business-to-business gives me the opportunity to learn about interesting business models and ideas. Commercial property and casualty insurance is an important part of owning and operating a business, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. Our distribution model is fun and fast-paced
With a trio of local elections coming up next year, perhaps this would be a good time to reconvene the unofficial, perhaps fictitious Boone County Hot Stove Political Club. In times past, loosely organized groups of politically-minded residents would gather at some hideaway, perhaps lubricated by a Niagara of corn liquor, to ruminate, speculate, motivate
Columbia Furniture Assembly Owner Debbie Koske was looking for a part-time job, to help her daughter with school expenses, when she realized her special gift. Unlike others, she loved assembling furniture. Thus Columbia Furniture Assembly was born, a company that will come to home or office, assemble and place products and dispose of empty packing
The Insurance Group is an independent insurance agency. What does that mean? It means two simple things. One, we are not tied to any one insurance company; in fact, we have access to hundreds of insurance companies and solutions. And two, as advisors, we represent our clients. What are the biggest insurance challenges that business
