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Forget time management. If you can't manage your energy, you'll never be able to manage anything else

Freelancers (at least the good ones) have their pick of projects, and you have to work hard to keep them engaged. Here are a few tricks of the trade.

Give yourself a gift this Mother's Day: more time. These tools can help

The Internet gives angry customers a megaphone; even one angry one can do a lot of damage. Here's how to defend your company and defuse a crisis.

The pilot episode of a new television series can send it rocketing toward ratings success, renewal, and eventual syndication, or plummeting toward cancellation. But in the world of Internet TV, says Netflix , "don't expect overnight results." That's the message the company sent yesterday while announcing its quarterly financial results. On Monday, the company released its first-quarter financial earnings, and beyond the immediate results (26 million global streaming users, $870 million in revenue, a $0.08 loss per share), Netflix spent time qualifying the benefits of its original programming efforts

In 1997, Gary Vaynerchuk launched Winelibrary.com, and helped grow his family business from $3 million to $60 million in seven years. Here he explains marketing in an Internet world.

Why you can no longer convince someone to buy something that's not in his best interest, and what you can do about it. A good friend recently asked me about how sales organizations balance customer-centric thinking with making their number and closing sales.

When cash is tight, our tendency is to try to do everything ourselves. Even when we have no idea what we're doing

Delivering desktop productivity to the iPad. OnLive Desktop, a free app available on iTunes, lets you run virtual versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on your iPad. The programs run on remote servers, but given a reasonably fast Internet connection, it feels as if you're working on a desktop.

You don't have to be a Hollywood mogul to have someone do mind-numbing tasks for you. Just ask Ted Roden

In a 1995 interview, the mastermind behind Dell Computer reveals how he went from dorm room to industry leader. In 1995, I spent an hour talking to Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer, about how he built his company from a startup in his dorm room into one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world

The crowdfunding provisions have more than enough protections for investors, and they'll give entrepreneurs the capital they need CrowdFund investing (aka equity-based Crowdfunding) is about to become the law of the land. Opponents have spent months screaming about how it would be an open invitation for investment fraud and a menace to small investors if it passed.

On Tuesday, March 19 th , Alan Jacobs posted a technology article for The Atlantic titled Jobs of the Future: A Skeptic’s Response . In the article, he voices his doubts that a skillset promoted by the internet and social networking would usher in a new wave of future employment: Where are these jobs that will require such rapid “searching, browsing, assessing quality, and synthesizing the vast quantities of information”?

It's estimated that there are some 40,000 Internet web sites that sell prescription medications -- and the majority claim to be Canadian -- but CBS chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports that the buyer should beware.

Dozens of new gadgets and Web services promise to boost your business. Here are five that just might deliver. Dozens of new apps, gadgets, and online services are vying for your attention.