This year’s NAB Show is all about bringing content to life and the creativity, insight and technology it takes to transform your business into a modern, cutting-edge operation. Rick Ducey, BIA’s Chief Strategy Officer and Program Director for the upcoming Winning Media Strategies Conference in Washington, DC (5/20 – 5/22) is one of the leaders …

Posted by: Charles Laughlin and Mark Fratrik
This morning’s session at ILM:08 on Leveraging Traditional Media Online was an eye-opener in many respects. It was striking, for example, how aggressively NBC is embracing the idea of following the audience wherever it can get its attention — at the gas pump, at the gym, as well as …

San Jose, CA –USTelecom’s 2nd annual “Executive Business Forum” event held the this week (Oct 1-3) in Silicon Valley drew about 120 attendees from Service Provider and Vendor companies to listen to speakers discuss the disruptive force broadband and Internet have become in their businesses. Jeff Gardner, Windstream’s president/CEO kicked things off with a keynote …

If you missed the webinar, What’s a website worth? Valuation Metrics for Local Websites, conducted today by the team at Borrell and Associates along with my colleagues Rick Ducey and Mark Fratrik, there will be no milk and cookies for you after school today. Our two firms just produced a study to determine the …

Posted by: Rick Ducey
Chief Strategy Officer, BIA Financial Network
Many readers will never get beyond the executive summary, so this is an especially important part of the business plan. Given this, what should you emphasize in your executive summary? This is a very condensed and stylistic expression of your whole business idea. It’s unfair, but …

Written by Rick Ducey
Chief Strategy Officer

My wife’s into quilting. Having seen her work and visited shows and exhibitions, some of it has rubbed off. The pattern, material and method of joining it all together is integral both to artistic form and actual function. An excellent management team also must have some structural and design elements going …

Mark Fratrik, VP BIA Financial Network
Remarks to the MMTC Conference Panel
Mark Fratrik, Ph.D., was invited to present at the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) conference in July 21, 2008. In his presentation, Dr. Fratrik offered an overview of the current status of the media and telecom industries and what new entrants need to do …

Mark Fratrik, VP BIA Financial Network
Presentation to the FCC En Banc Hearing on Barriers to Communication Financing
Mark Fratrik, Ph.D., was invited to appear at the FCC’s En Banc Hearing on Barriers to Communication Financing at Barnard College in New York City on Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Dr. Fratrik will discuss the current state of capital markets. …