Match Maker: ON THE JOB Meet Lanie W. Delphin, Match-maker
Name: Lanie W. Delphin Age: 58 Family: Husband, Bud; son, Josh, 33; two stepdaughters, Halissa, 21, and Alex, 18 Occupation: Match-maker Title: President and co-owner Place of employment: Single Search Western Mass. Dating Service, Sunderland Years on the job: 2 Previous experience: Writer/columnist, member of AmeriCorps, employment recruiter, library worker Education: Master's degree in education, Boston University; bachelor's degree, Mount...

Match Maker: Reap success with seed funds,  Small Business
Stuck for cash? A match-maker may be able to help your firm find the money to grow, writes Sandra O'Connell BUILDING up a business from nothing involves punishingly long hours, intense stress and emotional toil. And when it comes to expansion, those ingredients are still not enough. To grow a business, the entrepreneur must add money to the mix.The question is: where is it to be found? For Ray Gunning, the chief executive of Eurocollege, his prayers for cash were answered by...

Match Maker: Reap success with seed funds,  Small Business
Stuck for cash? A match-maker may be able to help your firm find the money to grow, writes Sandra O'Connell BUILDING up a business from nothing involves punishingly long hours, intense stress and emotional toil. And when it comes to expansion, those ingredients are still not enough. To grow a business, the entrepreneur must add money to the mix.The question is: where is it to be found? For Ray Gunning, the chief executive of Eurocollege, his prayers for cash were answered by...

Affiliate on the Roof - Meet the Match Maker
The work from home revolution is well and truly here. Primarily drawing on affiliate marketing as the main source of income, business opportunity seekers, website owners, and the new revolution of work from home mums are competing aggressively to boost customer acquisition. Unfortunately, list building, link building, blogging, and marketing can seriously eat into the free time of any goal driven enthusiast.

Match Maker: Striking a Hot Match
Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and Gwen Stefani, superstar lead singer of No Doubt, may seem an unlikely pairing. But there they were, center ...

Match Maker: Serving for the match: Home Serve will not rest until it is number one in the insurance repairs market
Home Serve has set itself a challenge for the future--the Walsall-based company aims to be "the world's leading provider of insured repair solutions ...

Match Maker: Down to the details: the cost-conscious owners of this cozy cottage found a match in remodeler Alon Toker and his style of design/build.(Remodeling: Before+After)
Remodeler Alon Toker's system was a perfect fit for clients Mike and Alice Sloan. Mike Sloan is an accountant who was more interested than most clients in the down-to-the penny cost of each ite

Match Maker: A tight ship: profitability management helped pc maker dell pull off a turnaround. Can it help you do the same? - Smart Moves
TODAY, DELI IS A BUSINESS BEHEMOTH, the world's largest PC maker with $35 billion in fiscal 2003 revenues, $2.1 billion in after-tax profits, and the ...