OCTOBER 22, 2012 / YOUR BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS WEEKLY SPECIAL FOCUS
NETWORKING SOCIAL Technology is key to business success By Ron Sylvester staff writer I
magine walking down the Strip and seeing a billboard blink your name, offer match play on your favorite casino game and 25 percent off a new pair of shoes. ¶ That day isn't far away, experts say, as businesses become more sophisticated in how they network and
interact with consumers. ¶ Eight years after the launch of Facebook and six years into Twitter, businesses understand the value of social media. Now they must learn how to catch – and keep – customers' attention, particularly as consumers become increasingly distract- ed with new ways to communicate.
SEE NETWORKING, PAGE 14
NETWORKING AND CLIENT RELATIONS
This month, VEGAS INC examines the art of building and maintaining business relationships.
IN STALLED ECONOMY, DEVELOPERS TRY TO GROW
By Eli Segall staff writer T
he developers of Tivoli Village near Summerlin might be some of the most bullish in Las Vegas.
EHB Cos. and its partner, conglomerate IDB Group, built high-end retail hub during the depths of the recession. The companies also built in 2007 One Queensridge Place, a complex of two 18-story condominium towers near Tivoli that today are more than 70 percent sold. Since
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they have unveiled 700,000-square-foot
for Las Vegas Renaissance, indoor mall
across the street from Tivoli, and for a 200,000-square-foot retail center at the corner of West Sahara Avenue and South Hualapai Way, a few miles south of Tivoli. The Sahara center is expect- ed to open next year and Renaissance in 2015.
People may wonder at the wisdom SEE TIVOLI VILLAGE, PAGE 16
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