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Engage your customers in an authentic, ongoing online relationship. Plus, Ben Huh, chief executive of Cheezburger Network, a humor website, on how to get your audience to come back every day.
Read More »The Business of a Hockey Game
Here's a look at the companies that provide the scoreboards, displays, shielding, and safety nets that make it possible for the Philadelphia Flyers to entertain fans at a hometown game. Shielding and safety nets On this night, 19,593 fans packed the Wells Fargo Center. To help keep them safe from pucks and other projectiles, the rink is surrounded by 522 linear feet of acrylic shielding made by Sport Systems Unlimited/Athletica, which has facilities in Minneapolis and Waterloo, Ontario
Read More »The Kids are All Right
When Project Runway winner Chloe Dao's national spotlight faded, she needed help, but couldn't afford a consultant. Chloe Dao knew she needed help. But she didn't know where to find it.
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 »From Duff to Dunder Mifflin: 6 Real Products Born in Hollywood
What if you took a product, service, or company that only existed in an alternate reality--and then made it real? Thats the gist of reverse product placement.
Read More »Build a Brand from Scratch: 4 Tricks
My company set out to revolutionize the workout. But first, we had to put our name on the map
Read More »DreamBox Learning Closes $11 Million Round
Acquired by Netflix CEO in 2010, the educational software company plans to introduce new products with the infusion of cash.
Read More »Mistakes: Your Greatest Untapped Resource
Feel like a failure?
Read More »Plunging Cleavage Made As Literal As Possible In Wonderbra Promotion
From the Is This Really Necessary Files: An ad launch for Ultimate Plunge Wonderbra sees women actually plunging down a giant projected neckline right into... well, you know where.
Read More »8 Questions to Ask About the Euro Mess
European leaders are meeting today on yet another Grand Plan to bail out the Euro. Why you, and your business, better hope they succeed. The drama is building over European leaders’ continued inability to solve the debt crisis that threatens to explode the euro zone.
Read More »Growing a Wedding-Planning Business—Fast
Susan Southerland, president of Just Marry!, a wedding and event planning company, talks about how to interact with today's bride"and the most famous recent one, Kim Kardashian. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201112/success-stories-susan-southerland-just-marry.html Advertisement: Win New Customers
Read More »Helping Customers Help Themselves
Your online customers need help, not template e-mails.
Read More »Leadership: When It’s All About You
The blind spot that may have tripped up Jon Corzine is equally dangerous for other leaders. How to avoid it
Read More »When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Out for Coffee
It's not natural to reach out when your business is struggling.
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