

Cover Story:
For RBD, It Was
a Very Good Year
Feature Stories:
Lessons Learned
Starting a small business can be a daunting proposition
Web Masters
RBD's online presence is a natural progression
RBD Round-Up:
How's Business?
The results are in from our
first survey
RBD Business Survey
What's your take on the rising cost of healthcare?
DEPARTMENTS:
Economic Round-Up
• The Smart Investor
How to minimize the affect of the Alternative Minimum Tax
• Economic Viewpoint
Interpreting the Inverted
Yield Curve
• Visitor's Guide
Tour busses in Rockland?
Retail Round-Up
• Where the Jobs Are
Tips for students looking
for work
Business Round-Up
• PSI Health Plans
Offer flexibility and
cost savings
• Marketing By Design
The top 15 campaigns of the last 100 years - Part 2
Ask The Expert
• The Human Factor in
Human Resources
Invest in Your Community
• Looking For a Better Way
Tomorrow's Workplace
offers help
• Leadership Rockland
Graduates class of 2007
• Youth Forum & Awards
Rockland Youth Volunteers Honored
Odds & Ends
• Letters to the Editor
• Rockland Newsmakers
Dedicated Section:
Rockland Business Association:
The President’s Desk
Heart-felt Congratulations
to Rockland's only B2B resource
RBA/United Way Golf Outing
A beautiful day for all
RBA Happenings
• Committee and Council Info
• Calendar of Events
• New Members
Letters to the Editor
RBD's One Year Anniversary - What They're Saying
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comments—both accolades and criticisms—
especially when
it relates to doing business in our county.
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Rockland Business Digest,
LLC,
747 Chestnut Ridge Road,
Chestnut Ridge, NY
10977.
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Congratulations on your first anniversary as Rockland County’s very own, first-rate, business-to-business magazine! In today’s marketplace, that’s no small feat: Each and every day, the county’s business community confronts issues of technology, regulatory affairs, education and the workforce, marketing, investment, pensions, social security, spiraling healthcare costs, intellectual property, and the beat goes on. It is reassuring to know that the Rockland Business Digest is doggedly out there, highlighting and seeking answers to the puzzles that perplex the county’s business community.
Best wishes on your continued publishing success,
Gary S. Graifman, Partner
Kantrowitz, Goldhamer & Graifman, PC
Congratulations on a very successful first year! Providing informative and interesting articles to the Rockland business community, this magazine has become a must read!
Sincerely,
Sheldon Horowitz, President
SafeHarbour Group. Ltd.
The Rockland Business Digest has been a godsend for the business community when we didn’t have a magazine that represented Rockland County. Both Steve and Ken took on a great responsibility in filling this much-needed gap. I look forward to reading the magazine to find out what is happening in Rockland and businesses here. Steve and Ken, my heartfelt appreciation for your commitment and dedication to the magazine for the past year and its continued success in years to come.
Congratulations and Happy Birthday!
Lena Bodin, SPHR
People Resource Strategies
Just wanted to write a short note to congratulate you on your one year anniversary of Rockland Business Digest! I have found Rockland Business Digest to be most informative. Everyone I mention it to seems to already be well aware of it... further proof of the paramount success of your magazine in such a short time! Best of luck in the future years to come. I wish you years of continued success.
Sheri Sohn Chablis, NY & FL Broker/Owner
Sohn Real Estate Corp.
Happy Anniversary to the Rockland Business Digest. Thanks for helping us to get to know the strong, vibrant business community in Rockland and for providing us the opportunity to share the Make-A-Wish® mission and vision with the Rockland Business Community.
With gratitude,
Thomas J. Conklin, President and CEO
Make-A-Wish Foundation® of the Hudson Valley
From one local media to another, Congratulations! RB Digest has successfully built the bridge between key industry data/services and local business. The Rockland business community is better served thanks to the RB Digest. May this be the first of many successful years!
Fondly,
Sophia Salis Kelter, Program/Sales Director
WRCR AM Radio Rockland
Congratulations on one full year of publication! It’s clear that the RB Digest has had a tremendous impact on the entire community. By highlighting all the good things that our local businesses and non-profit organizations are doing, RBD has instilled a great sense of pride and accomplishment in all Rocklanders. New York Blood Center is especially proud to be a part of this growing community.
Sincerely,
New York Blood Center of Nanuet
Congratulations, RBD, on your first birthday! Your publication is a valuable resource filled with quality content. Keep up the good work and best of luck going forward.
Phyllis Levine, Manager of Marketing & Administration
HVTDC, Hudson Valley Technology Development Center
Congratulations to RB Digest on their first anniversary. RB Digest has done an excellent job serving the business community and Rockland County with an incisive and informative business publication that was definitely needed. The format and the quality of the articles and reports are a tribute to the publishing staff and the management. I wish you continued success.
Burt Steinberg, Executive Director
Dress Barn
Congratulations on the first anniversary of Rockland Business Digest from all of us at Meals on Wheels Programs & Services of Rockland, Inc. It has been so heartening to see you recognize the not-for-profit community and the contribution that these agencies make to the economy of Rockland. Meals on Wheels is honored to have been featured in your publication. We thank you for your sensitivity to the needs of others, for being a champion of Meals on Wheels in particular and we wish you continued success.
Best wishes,
Mary Lou Russo, CFRE. Director of Development
Meals on Wheels Programs & Services of Rockland, Inc.
Amidst the expansion of this region, Rockland Business Digest is taking on the task of bringing attention to the businesses, issues, and policies that are shaping our area. Like other suburban districts, Rockland business people have access to a 24/7 global marketplace; a new way to do business is being crafted in every moment. It’s refreshing to know that we have such a local forum to stay connected on the front lines of our changing business landscape here in Rockland.
Judy Martin, Broadcast Journalist and Editor
WorkLifeMonitor.com