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• Making the most of marketing might

  A Miami mom develops a targeted message for her multipurpose bib and cultivates brand ambassadors to help her spread the word. That's a sound strategy, experts say.

• Business plan challenge resource roundup

  Mark your calendars for this week's small business events.

• Overqualified? Don't let that stop you

  Many who've been looking for work for months find their vast experience is a hindrance as prospective employers deem them overqualified. It's time for a new job-search strategy.
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  For South Florida companies, business of rebuilding Haiti begins

  Wearing dark glasses and a baseball hat, Adam Finnieston hovered outside a field hospital in the Haitian capital with a prosthetic leg tucked beneath his arm. As groups of doctors rushed by, he handed out business cards and chatted with visitors about how the technology developed by his Miami company could help Haiti's amputees.

• Freight that can't wait is big business at Miami International Airport

  Standing in one of Arrow Cargo's huge warehouses at Miami International Airport, Rodrigo Canola, the freight airline's export manager, pointed to stacks of electronic equipment from China and Korea, each separated according to their destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• College advisor eagerly accepts business advice

  International College Counselors founder Mandee Heller Adler eagerly looks for new ways to build her company.

• Upcoming events focus on helping start-ups

  Start-ups can turn to SCORE counselors and upcoming events to get loans, advice and other help.

• Solve meta-tag mystery to help your firm

  Temple Ahavat Olam and Rabbi Daniel Marmorstein aim to increase membership through more effective use of their organization's website and social media tools.

• Movers

  High-level promotions and new hires in South Florida

• It doesn't pay to be secretive about your business plan ideas

  Have a question about the Business Plan Challenge? Read the Challenge Q&A on Miami

  Herald.com/challenge and enter it there or e-mail ndahlberg@MiamiHerald.com

• Business agenda

  Business happenings around South Florida

  MONDAY

  Broward County Property Appraiser: Deputy appraisers available to assist with Homestead, senior and other property tax exemption applications and answer questions on property taxes. Also accepts applications for Portability. Documents required to file a Homestead Exemption include current Florida driver's license or Florida ID card and current voter registration card or declaration of domicile; free. 954-357-6035 or www.bcpa.net/events.asp:

• Real estate listings from Michael Y. Cannon

  MIAMI

  SERVICE STATION

  SELLS FOR $1.55M

  Location: 1600 SW 27th Ave.

  Seller: ARCCA, represented by Ramon de la Rosa, vice president.

• Bankruptcies

  Recent bankruptcies for the Southern District of Florida

• EDITOR'S NOTE

  South Florida to have vital role along Haiti's road to recovery

  Clearly the needs in earthquake-ravaged Haiti are huge. Homes, stores, banks, schools and government and commercial buildings have been reduced to rubble. Roads have buckled and the Caribbean nation's ports have taken heavy hits.

• Advice from the Business Plan Challenge judges

  It is best if you have tested out your business idea with a focusgroup or beta testing site. Ideas are easy to come by, but a tested idea that produces measurable success of the idea is invaluable.

• Contest rules

  Have you hatched a great idea for a business? You can enter our 12th Annual Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge, co-sponsored by Florida International University's Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center. This year, we will have three contests: A Community Track, which is the main contest open to all South Floridians, an FIU Track and a Student Track. The following rules are for all three tracks. Then you will find additional rules for the individual tracks.

• It's not what you know, but who you know

  The more time you devote to networking, the higher your probability of finding that elusive job, corporate insiders and job-search experts say.

• Ryder System CEO casts wide net to find solutions

  Sifting through great ideas both large and small, Ryder System CEO Greg Swienton listens to input from frontline employees, opinionated board members and his wife.

• Bankruptcies

  Recent bankruptcies for the Southern District of Florida

• ASK DOCTOR LAW

  Can charity collect defaulted pledge?

  Q: Our business helps charities achieve their goals. Our usual services include assisting in formation and IRS approvals,offering planning and reaching out to donors. As a result of the economic turndown, there has been an alarming increase in gift pledges not being honored. Due to the large amounts involved, our charities are reluctantly considering court actions to collect. But they have received conflicting advice as to their legal rights. Help, please.

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