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How to keep a business on track when its top performers are scattered across the map. Caldwell, Idaho

These new tools offer innovative ways to engage people who visit your site, and keep them coming back. A lot of business owners are focused on interacting with customers on social networks. But how about your plain old company website?

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How much time is too much time for a small-but-growing company to spend talking to and preparing estimates for prospective clients? Dear Norm, My husband and I run a small studio that does branding and packaging design. We seem to attract a lot of start-ups and small businesses—enough that we haven't had to pitch a client in more than three years

When you have a stand-out employee, is increasing pay and benefits enough? Dear Norm, I own food-tour companies in 11 cities.

Three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator to focus on start-ups with a female founder and a mobile product or service. Tech incubators, such as Y Combinator and TechStars, graduate astonishingly low rates of woman-run companies. Instead of complaining about the gender gap, three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator

Marie Moody's love for her adopted mutts inspired her to launch Stella & Chewy's, a Milwaukee-based pet-food maker.

Here's a look at the companies that provide the fishing lures, cabins, and components of the airboats used by visitors to Mack's Fish Camp in the Florida Everglades. Behind the Scenes: Mack's Fish Camp, Pembroke Pines, Florida | 12.29.11, 3:10 p.m. Airboat propellers Nell and Mack Jones Jr

Forget flash mobs. This new kind of group supports local shops

The CEO of BuyCostumes.com has a new method for predicting election results: sales of paper masks in the likenesses of the candidates.

Ticketmaster, which recently merged with Live Nation, dominates the multibillion-dollar ticketing industry. But these companies are looking to steal the show

With Incident in New Baghdad, its second Oscar nominee in two years, Kickstarter is on its way to becoming a democratizing force in film In the old clich

Is Google Fiber a Trojan Horse? While it doesn't take much for Google to make headlines, this week's news that it filed applications to operate a video service in Kansas City was much more than your average "Hey look what Google did" story

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Last week Foxconn pushed its starting salaries up from 900 yuan ($143) to 1,800 yuan per month, the latest and biggest in wage upticks that began in 2010.