Volume 2, Issue 1
Table of Contents

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

It's hard to believe that a year has gone by since two of our members courageously stepped forward to fill a void and provide us with an invaluable local asset; the Rockland Business Digest magazine.

Our gratitude and respect are extended to Ken Mahoney and Steve Powell for taking on a significant challenge; meeting that challenge and, most significantly, exceeding reasonable expectations for product delivered.

I spent 18 years in the publishing business and can assure you, what they undertook would have been a major project for an established publisher; it had to be monumental for two people with limited publishing resources and no real infrastructure to support the initiative.

But, they came through. And, we now have a very well targeted magazine distributed to over 11,000 Rockland businesses. It's a great vehicle for your advertising message. It's been a wonderful source of information to help you better understand the business environment in which we operate. And, for the RBA, it's been an incredible opportunity to share our message with members and non-members alike.

We have attracted new members because of the reach of RB Digest. We've been able to share our legislative advocacy with a wider audience. And, in a very broad context, we have been better able to disseminate association information in a very professional and readable format.

Ken. Steve. From all of us in the RBA, Our very best wishes for continued success. We appreciate what you're doing.

Al Samuels
President, Rockland Business Association