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Be Business Smart: How to Pitch Your Business

If you are a small business owner and don't already have an elevator pitch for your business, you should!  "An elevator pitch sums up the unique aspects of your business or personal brand and gets a conversation started." --Adam Uzialko, Business News Daily, 6/29/2022

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What's your resolution?

No matter what your resolutions are for the new year, we hope that the library can play a part in helping you achieve your goals.

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New Business Books

Notable new titles include Walt Bogdanich’s When McKinsey Comes to Town, about the influential and controversial consulting firm known for the draconian measures it often recommends to its client businesses, and Gary Rivlin’s Saving Main Street, about the re
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5 Things Every Renter Should Know

Richland Library is working towards helping our community access housing options that meet their needs. In this post, we'll cover five things every renter should know before committing to housing.

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New Business Books

Noteworthy new titles include Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back, by Georgia politician (and serial entrepreneur) Stacey Abrams and her business partner, Lara Hodgson; Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski’s Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dol
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Statista

Statista is an easy-to-use portal that integrates statistics and reports from thousands of sources on topics related to business, media, public policy, health, technology, and many others.

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Know Before You Share

These days we have access to more information than we've ever had before - which means we have access to more wrong information than we've ever had before. 

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New Business Books

This batch of new business books features some sharp corporate take-downs, including Peter Robison’s Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing and Bartow J.
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Consumer Reports

ConsumerReports.org provides trusted ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice for thousands of products and services. Includes car buying guide and health care advice.

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Get Your News with U.S. Newsstream

If you have grown weary of paywalls impeding your access to reliable news (or of “free” subscriptions that offer only limited access, at the cost of surrendering some personal information), consider using U.S. Newsstream to essentially bypass paywalls and find the latest on US politics, COVID-19 vaccines, and world news.

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Billion Dollar Loser (and other new business books you may enjoy)

Check out these new business titles recently added to our collection.  Considering the news of the antitrust suit that the US Department of Justice has just brought against Google, Zephyr Teachout’s Break ’em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money is a timely read indeed.
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Donating Books During a Pandemic

While our libraries are focused on getting our physical materials in the hands of customers, we've temporarily taken a step back from accepting community donations but that doesn't mean there aren't some really great community organizations out there that would love to safely process your book donations.