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Since the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership's ExporTech program started in 2010, approximately 400 statewide companies have graduated. Graduates have averaged $900,000 in new export revenue in nine months after completing the program, and two manufacturers have won Governor's Export Achievement Awards.

A good friend gave me a book about building your business through referrals. The author believes, “The best marketing strategy is to be referable.” He is correct. He writes, “Referability means that your very best clients and customers are continually cloning themselves -- continually introducing you to those like themselves or better than themselves.”

The fun continues on Day 3 at Summerfest with the Summerfest Parade at 3 p.m.

*Friday, June 26, the Urban Ecology Center will hold a volunteer orientation during which prospective volunteers can learn ways...

BizTimes Media’s fifth annual Giving Guide serves the region’s business community as a vehicle to engage with area nonprofit organizations and discover opportunities for philanthropic involvement.

The board of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater has elected several prominent new members of its board of trustees and executive committee.

Associated Bank and the Brewers Community Foundation have announced they will donate $250 to Milwaukee-based nonprofit Housing Resources Inc. for every hit the Brewers get at home through the end of the season, up to $100,000.

Meghan Shannon of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.’s Milwaukee office has been elected to Susan G. Komen’s national board of directors.

First Stage, a Milwaukee-based children’s theatre, has garnered a $70,000 grant from the Shubert Foundation, Inc.

Fifty students who belong to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee will receive full rides to Herzing University through scholarships the school is awarding in honor of its 50th anniversary.