The North County Times, part of the Lee Enterprises family of newspapers, delivers a fast-growing, upscale market between the ocean and the mountains north of the city of San Diego.

This North San Diego County and Southwest Riverside County market is home to about 1.3 million people. The economy is fueled by tourism, agriculture, the military, a growing biotech industry, construction and various high-tech industries.

The newspaper, with a staff of 500, pursues an overall strategy of connecting to the community with the highest possible quality news report, advertising and circulation service. It produces nine local editions, putting news and advertising before the readers, honoring the needs, traditions and unique demands of the individual communities served.

Those places include the cities of Carlsbad, Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos, Escondido, Poway, Encinitas, Temecula, Murrieta, the village of Fallbrook, and the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base.

The newsroom focuses on an active, newsy presentation that places high value on local content ranging from the "refrigerator-door" items about service clubs, school classrooms and celebratory events to broad coverage of local governments, school districts and businesses. The local report is capped by deep, high-quality reporting on issues that include demands for energy and water, freeway congestion, housing costs, homelessness and the quality of education.

World-class solutions and service

Bank of America serves 97% of the U.S. Fortune 500 and one in five midsized companies, and has offices across the U.S. and in 31 other countries around the world. Through our integrated universal banking platform, we offer:

• Investment banking
• Equity and debt-capital raising
• Research
• Trading
• Risk Management
• Treasury management
• Financial advisory services
• A full range of credit, deposit and other traditional bank services

As a global financial leader with a focused client team approach, clients of every size and scope count on us for superior intellect, capital strength and personalized service.

We invite you to explore our website to learn more about our industry and advisory expertise, solutions and services, global reach, and university recruiting efforts. Let us put the world-class strengths of Bank of America to work for you. www.bofa.com.
 

Business Consultants Colm Kelly and Bob Civello founded Smarter Small Business in January 2006 after identifying a need for a company to assist small business owners in running their operations more efficiently and effectively and for an affordable price.  Today, the Carlsbad-based company has served over 200 clients ranging from one-person businesses to small companies with 1-20 employees.

The company’s co-founders bring over 50 years of business ownership and consulting experience in business to Smarter Small Business.  “Smarter Small Business is a strategy-based consulting company,” says Kelly.  “Most of our clients are small business owners looking to take their businesses to the next level by increasing revenue and operating more productively as a result of  implementing the right strategies for their businesses.”

Smarter Small Business utilizes its strategic planning, training and implementation methods to provide practical, immediate, “no fluff”, affordable solutions for small business owners in all areas of business.  These areas include marketing, sales, human resources, accounting, administration and leadership.   

There are three ways for small business owners to benefit from the company’s services:  

1)         Monthly Conferences and Workshops
Fast-paced, interactive strategy training sessions and implementation workshops are offered on a variety of topics throughout the year.  These half-day sessions are held in Carlsbad, California.
2)         One-on-one Coaching
For small business owners seeking individualized support, Smarter Small Business provides one-on-one consulting, on-call advice, and progress meetings. 
 3)         Online Interactive Business Learning
SmarterSmallBusiness.com is an online portal for business owners to: 1) create strategy plans, 2) prioritize strategies on which they wish to focus, 3) step through easy-to-follow instructions for over 70 real world strategies, and 4) implement their strategies by making use of tools, templates and worksheets to get more accomplished faster and accelerate their success.

For more information, call 760-602-9321, visit www.smartersmallbusiness.com or email at colm@smartersmallbusiness.com.

In 1952 representatives of the Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista Chambers of Commerce identified a need for a modern local hospital to serve a growing community. They joined together in 1955 to form the Tri-City Hospital Association to oversee and coordinate the formation of Tri-City Healthcare District, the governing arm of Tri-City Medical Center.

We are recognized nationally for our excellent medical and professional staff, state-of-the-art medical care and highly rated patient services. We are a designated Joint Commission Stroke Center and a San Diego County designated Cardiac Treatment Center. We offer a wide array of quality programs ranging from maternity and advanced neonatal services, orthopedics, neurology, advanced interventional radiology, including a new 64 Channel Multi-Slice CT Scanner and new digital mammography technology and a multitude of specialty services. We have 569 physicians representing 60 specialties and sub-specialties. We are Gold Seal approved by the Joint Commission, meeting the national standards for healthcare quality.

We offer 24/7 expertise from physicians using the latest emergency medical technology. As the second busiest emergency room in San Diego County, we treat more than 65,000 residents annually. We remain at the forefront in planning for regional disaster response and in the event of a disaster are prepared to serve as a community medical receiving center for ill and injured patients.

We are focused on supporting the communities we serve with healthcare education, responding to requests for special programs, and actively leading and volunteering for countless community causes promoting an improved quality of life in North SD.

Learn more by visiting us at www.tricitymed.org.


Jordan & Jordan Marketing was founded with the understanding that marketing is both an art and a science; it has a visual side and an analytical side. Many agencies can produce the pieces for a marketing campaign, but don't understand how to properly implement the marketing campaign by focusing on the goal of the campaign BEFORE developing the campaign. Conversely, there are agencies that will instruct, teach, educate, inform on marketing but do not offer the production or implementation of the campaign. Agency founder and president, Shonna Jordan, recognized a need (particularly in for the small business) to bring the two sides of marketing together… and so in 2002, Jordan & Jordan was established as a single entity bringing those two sides together. 

Now in it’s seventh year, the agency has assisted hundreds of small business (from 1 to 30 employees) to achieve continually-increasing success through SOLID marketing planning, PROPER marketing campaign development and REAL, ACTUAL campaign implementation. Success stories range from the hobbyist turned sole proprietor generating enough business to hire and retire to the mid-size corporation increasing their lead generation by 20% over a period of 6-months.

Jordan & Jordan’s recent launch of the Marketing Matters Forums for Four™ provides business owners, entrepreneurs, independent agents and hobbyists an affordable to opportunity to create, concrete, immediately-implementable marketing campaigns in an intimate, focused environment with interaction with the forum leader and other participants. 

Don’t miss out on the upcoming marketing forums! Log on to www.ForumforFour.com

Or schedule a no-cost marketing discovery session to explore your current marketing and solutions available to you!

SonicSpider is a full-service web development firm that has more than 20 years of experience working in the Internet, programming, technical and marketing industries. SonicSpider specializes in helping businesses in San Diego reach their marketing goals by using their website as a integral tool. Other services provided by the company include hosting, web development, web design, web architecture, e-commerce and business web tools, custom programming, SEO, and Internet marketing. The company was founded in 2003 by father and daughter team John and Melanie Moore.

SonicSpider has now grown to encompass another senior programmer, Clive Walden, and an IT Director, Richard Peat-Hanna. For more information about SonicSpider, visit its website, www.sonicspider.com, or its online resource center for businesses, www.sonicweblog.com/pebble/main/.

Wells Fargo – Serving San Diego
San Diego has changed dramatically since Wells Fargo established itself in Old Town in 1857. For 150 years Wells Fargo has been helping San Diegans live out their dreams by supporting their families, businesses and communities as they continue to grow.

As one of Southern California’s largest private employers, Wells Fargo boasts nearly 90 banking locations in San Diego County and more than 2,500 team members.

We believe the success of Wells Fargo is directly tied to the financial health of the people we serve, which is why we support our communities through volunteerism and contributions. In 2006, Wells Fargo contributed $2.4 million to the San Diego community. Last October during the Southern California wildfires, Wells Fargo contributed $500,000 to aid local victims with relief and recovery efforts.

Wells Fargo is a financial services company, but when you look deeper into our organization you see that we are committed to a larger goal. As our Southern California Region President John Sotoodeh says, “We’ll be known as an active community leader in economic development, services that promote economic self-sufficiency, education, social services and the arts.” Not only do we teach our customers how to manage their money, but we also teach them how to realize their dreams.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory
publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com.