Success in the $1 trillion government marketplace boils down to perfecting your strategy. Three important strategies – planning, influencing and teaming – are discussed in Onvia’s 3 Expert Strategies for High Impact Government Sales strategy guide. Strategic Partnerships, Inc. President and CEO Mary Scott Nabers joined two other government contracting experts in sharing guidelines and […]
Local government officials are often asked, “What keeps you awake at night?” With an up-and-down economy in recent years, the Great Recession, declining tax revenues and widening budget gaps, there’s no shortage of answers to that question. The nation’s mayors were recently surveyed regarding the most important, and most challenging, issues their respective cities are […]
At the moment, there is funding readily available for Texas roads. That’s a very good thing … but future funding could be a different story. Money has been transferred from the state’s oil and gas revenues to a fund for highway infrastructure. Even more funding will be transferred from vehicle sales tax revenue beginning in […]
An attempt to stem the use of “dark money” – in this case, political contributions by companies that contract with the federal government to independent groups that seek to influence political races – is back on the hot topics list for the White House. Administration officials say the executive order by President Barack Obama addressing […]
Communication and information-sharing between public officials and citizens is critically important. Both, however, are costly and time-consuming. Budget constraints have made it even harder for cities and state agencies to handle citizen calls, questions and information requests in an efficient way. Communication between the parties can be frustrating for government employees and even more so […]
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is in an enviable position. Unlike in most other states, Minnesota’s state treasury is sitting pretty with a $1.9 billion surplus. With those funds securely in hand, Dayton recently proposed borrowing $1.4 billion to finance more than 100 public projects throughout the state – from construction at public college campuses to supporting the […]
There have been thousands of stories written about millennials – how they work, what they expect from life, where they prefer to live, how unconcerned they are about owning a car and why they move from job to job. We all know a lot about millennials because we’ve almost studied them to death. But now […]