FEBRUARY 08
BANKING & FINANCE — Lenders and borrowers, equity investors and business owners share the best strategies for gaining capital, and spending it wisely, in today’s economic climate.
COMMERCIAL BANKS — Toolkit Package (service provider list + industry trends)
BUSINESS LAW — Business Builder Emphasis (expert how-to articles)
TECHNOLOGY — Business Builder Emphasis
SMALL-BUSINESS FORECAST — Upsize reports results from its exclusive annual survey of small-business owners, telling their business expansion and buying plans. Experts share analysis in economics, real estate expansion, accounting/tax, finance and technology.

MARCH 08
BUSINESS LAW — Legal challenges in the workplace are becoming more and more common. Attorneys who specialize in employment law guide readers through non-compete agreements that stick, employee handbooks that work, and more human resources challenges.
LAWFIRMS — Toolkit Package (service provider list + industry trends)
ACCOUNTING & TAXES — Business Builder Emphasis (expert how-to articles)
PERSONAL FINANCE — Business Builder Emphasis
UPSIZE SMALL-BUSINESS SUMMIT — Upsize presents coverage of this annual event, including the inspiring stories from winners of the Upsize Lifeline Awards, recognizing the importance that mentors, advisers and corporate champions play in the growth and health of small businesses.

APRIL 08
UPSIZE STAGES: Exit Strategies — Introducing our third in a series of how-to guides, detailing how to manage all aspects of operating a company at a distinct stage in its life cycle. This guide succinctly covers how to sell or take public a business for maximum return, emphasizing questions and answers from business brokers and consultants, mergers & acquisitions experts, investment bankers and financiers, and attorneys and accountants who specialize in helping business owners navigate this culminating event successfully.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS — Business Builder Emphasis (expert how-to articles)
SALES &MARKETING — Business Builder Emphasis

MAY 08
TECHNOLOGY — How small-business owners can purchase and employ the latest technology wisely is the subject of this annual buyer’s guide. Experts and owners share what’s working.
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS — Toolkit Package (service provider list +industry trends)
BANKING & FINANCE — Business Builder Emphasis (expert how-to articles)
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE — Business Builder Emphasis
UPSIZE GROWTH CHALLENGE I — Part one of this two-part series reports the growth goals of threewinners of the 2008 Upsize Growth Challenge, the original and exclusive contest thatmatches growing companies with expert advisers.

JUNE • JULY 08 — SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE
THE UPSIZE BUSINESS BUILDER EDITION — Upsize presents its seventh annual big book packed with how to advice, featuring:
How-to articles written by local experts on every topic important to the owners of growing companies:
BANKING/FINANCE, LAW, TECHNOLOGY, TELECOM, HUMAN RESOURCES, COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS,ACCOUNTING/TAXES,OPERATIONS,MARKETING, INSURANCE and much more.
Case studies detailing how business owners tackle their biggest challenges, such as building revenue, improving operations, rolling out new products andmanaging employees.
PLUS Lessons learned luminary business owners.

AUGUST 08
BUSINESSMEETINGS & EVENTS — The right kinds of events can augment a growing company’s reputation. We present creative ideas from meeting planners, caterers and venue representatives and the companies they serve, along with technology tools that can transform results from a trade show or presentation.
MEETINGS & EVENTS CENTERS — Toolkit Package (service provider list + industry trends)
BANKING & FINANCE — Business Builder Emphasis (expert how-to articles)
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE — Business Builder Emphasis
UPSIZE GROWTH CHALLENGE II — Featuring lessons learned from the winners of this year’s Upsize Growth Challenge,with expert advice that helped them reach their goals. The overall champion, as named by audience vote in the June wrap-up celebration, receives cover treatment.

SEPTEMBER 08
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE — How to plan, fund and execute a growing company’s next office expansion is the focus. Brokers, tenant reps, landlords, real estate attorneys and their customers tell what works.
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKERS — Toolkit Package (service provider list + industry trends)
SALES &MARKETING — Business Builder Emphasis (how-to articles)
WELLNESS — Business Builder Emphasis
Article Index, summarizing the content and authorship of expert-contributed articles published in Upsize in recent years. A complete version will appear on the Web, referencing articles dating to Upsize’s debut in 2002 and now numbering in the hundreds.

OCTOBER 08
INTERNET MARKETING — Viral techniques, customer relationship management tools, search engine optimization tactics, next-generation Web development and everything related to the topic of this guide to best practices in internet marketing.
WEB DEVELOPERS — Toolkit Package (service provider list + industry trends)
BANKING & FINANCE — Business Builder Emphasis (expert how-to articles)
INSURANCE — Business Builder Emphasis

NOVEMBER 08
UPSIZE STAGES: Managing Rapid Growth — Times of fast growth are exhilarating for business owners, and risky, too. The fourth in our new series of how-to guides, each covering a distinct stage in the life cycle of a business, emphasizes advice on growing intelligently, and features experts in banking/finance, employee, real estate and contract law, accounting/taxes, technology/infrastructure, management/project management, marketing/sales, and production/distribution.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS — Business Builder Emphasis (expert how-to articles)
TECHNOLOGY — Business Builder Emphasis

DECEMBER 08 • JANUARY 09 — SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE
THE UPSIZE TOOLKIT EDITION — Upsize presents this fifth annual must-save resource, packed with best practices for building businesses and help from local service providers ready to serve, including:
Toolkits, a collection of advice and contact information to local service providers and resources in sectors crucial to running a growing business, such as ACCOUNTING, ADVERTISING, BANKING/FINANCE, LAW, HUMAN RESOURCES, PUBLIC RELATIONS, COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, TELECOM, TECHNOLOGY, TRAINING, and more.
Upsize Business Builder Awards complete coverage, reporting best practices from finalists and industry experts in finance and operations, technology and innovation, people and workplace, customer relations, communications and marketing, and community impact.
PLUS lessons learned from the Business Builder of the Year, the overall winner in our biggest event in 2008, with an in-depth look at strategies that others can employ.