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Read More »Why Your Car Is The Next Advertising Battleground
Those hours you spend driving each day will soon be interrupted with contextual advertising, pointing you to that Starbucks around the corner or the McDonald's just down the street. Imagine this: You're taking the family for a ride in your new Toyota, when you experience something unnerving
Read More »Ariel Zwang Wields Private-Sector Tactics To Create Safe Horizon For Women & Children
Safe Horizon, the largest nonprofit provider of domestic-violence aid services in the U.S., is thriving under executive director Ariel Zwang, thanks to shrewd tactics she's taken from her experience in the private sector.
Read More »Chip Conley: The 5 Things Everyone Wants From You
Joie de Vivre Hotels founder explains how your customers, your employees, and even your investors have the same five needs. Deliver on them and you cant lose.
Read More »Why In-Person Socializing Is A Mandatory To-Do Item
We are genetically oriented toward learning from others, an easy thing to forget these days.
Read More »9 Steps To Quitting Your “Have To Have" Job And Pursuing Your Dream
How many of us have dreamed of leaving our current jobs to do what we really want to do? And yet, not many of us have actually left the safety of what we do daily unless forced out by layoffs and downsizing. Why is that
Read More »The Way I Work: Amos Winbush III, CyberSynchs
He seemed destined for music stardom, but instead Amos Winbush III started CyberSynchs, a $13.5 million-a-year New York City-based mobile phone backup company.
Read More »Norm Brodsky on Keeping Peace in the Family
The best way to avoid bickering over family ownership of a company is to put everything in writing early on. Dear Norm, My sister had a great idea for a product and started a business. I joined her and put in long hours, without compensation, for two years
Read More »The Small Joys of Family Business
Entrepreneurship, for all its challenges, can bestow on families unexpected benefits beyond the obvious financial ones. Although my husband, Gary, is CEO of Stonyfield Farm, his name doesn't appear in the company's phone directory. So after-hours calls often land in the voice-mail box of the only Hirshberg listed: his sister Nancy, who has worked at the company for decades.
Read More »5 Ways to Kick Your Fear of Failure
How to regain your motivation and determination on even the darkest days.
Read More »So You Want to Move to Silicon Valley…
A recent transplant from Minneapolis dishes on what you need to know if you want to live in the start-up capital of the world. Moving your tech start-up to Silicon Valley makes sense on so many levels
Read More »5 Great Reasons to Work on Vacation
Part of the reason we go on vacation is to feel refreshed when we get back, right? That's why the laptop and iPhone come with me
Read More »Best Gifts for Your Clients
Are you trying to play Santa on an elf's cashflow? Make your client gifts stand out this holiday season, regardless of budget
Read More »All My Employees Are in Sales
Everyone at my company understands that the next sale begins when the customer says yes, and making that sale is part of their job.
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