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And there was much rejoicing! The people have spoken and Apple has heard your cries regarding the klugey compatibility between Final Cut X, the latest version of Apple's popular video editing suite, and previous versions. Final Cut X, launched earlier this summer.
Read More »How to Set Up Sales Territories
Deciding how to divide sales territories create the most efficient environment for your sales team is more difficult than just drawing lines on a map. When you're looking at the map and figuring out how to split up sales territories, how do you decide which salesperson to send to drive all up and down North Dakota and which one gets to just walk a few blocks around downtown Manhattan
Read More »4 Ways to Turn Your Expertise Into a Product
John Warrillow explains how professionals-such as architects, accountants, doctors and dentists-can grow their business beyond themselves. Dear John: I'm a criminal defense lawyer. As much as I would like to, I don't see how I could apply the Built To Sell philosophy to my practice
Read More »Get Paid To Podcast, Teach, or Publish a Newsletter Online
Making money online is a matter of finding an audience who you can either advertise to or receive direct payment from. Either way, you need something interesting or informative with which to catch and hold your readers’ attention. Your content ...
Read More »The Amazingly Cute Fridgeezoo Berates You For Leaving The Fridge Door Open
Will having a cartoon animal that lives in your fridge and firmly tells you to save energy get you to close the fridge door faster?
Read More »Death To Banner Ads! Social Media Campaigns That Worked Without Them
What works in social media marketing? Klout, Wildfire, and Mr Youth reveal results from their most successful campaigns
Read More »An "Ebay For Science" Promises To Transform The Business Of Research
Instead of being held captive by massive startup and infrastructure costs, Science Exchange allows anyone to have an experiment performed for them--for a fee. Scientific research is an expensive proposition.
Read More »Visualizing Regulations To Prevent You From Being Snookered By Greenwashing
It's hard to know what products mean when they say they are "environmentally friendly" or "fully compostable," but there are rules about what companies can and can't claim about their products.
Read More »Co:Collective Founders Launch Coworking Space "Grind" In Heart Of NYC Startup Scene
Beyond Wi-Fi and a seat: Grind founders look to build a community of "free radicals" in a Manhattan nabe where they might bump into their future funders. If you look carefully around the Union Square, Manhattan, location of newly launched coworking space Grind, there are references to the banalities of life as an office worker, unlamented artifacts of the corporation left behind. The glass walls of two conference rooms are covered in corporate speak--words and phrases like "incentivized," "loop me in," "above my pay grade," and "pain points," rendered in transparent type
Read More »Where Hurricane Irene Really Wreaked Havoc
Irene may not have lived up to expectations where the cameras were, but its impact is still being felt farther inland, where the real damage was. A report from the floods. Despite numerous predictions to the contrary, Hurricane Irene didn't blow North Carolina's Outer Banks to pieces or push a deadly storm surge through the streets of Baltimore.
Read More »Foxconn’s Large Profit, Arrington Launching $20 Million Venture Fund, Apple Promotes Cloud Exec Eddie Cue
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Foxconn's Huge Profit . Foxconn , maker of hardware for Apple and a number of peer computing firms, has reported $943 billion profits for the first half of 2011, a significant turnaround from its $218 million loss for all of 2010.
Read More »Would You Fire Someone for Planking?
A GameStop employee posts a photo of himself planking, and gets himself and the co-worker who took the picture, fired. GameStop's business is entertainment, but the company made it clear that those on the clock shouldn't be partaking in the fun and games. The Grapevine, Texas-based company fired an employee who went planking on the job, as well as the fellow employee who snapped the photo of him doing so between two in-store kiosks.
Read More »From Reality Show to Lasting Fame
The original Top Chef, Harold Dieterle, gives advice on turning a reality show appearance into an entrepreneurial reality. Chef Harold Dieterle has done what many others have failed to do: he's whipped 15 minutes of reality show fame into two successful, critically acclaimed New York City restaurants
Read More »Per-Ivar Sellergren Talks Electric Power Airplanes
Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Per-Ivar Sellergren is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars. Photo by Christian Aslund Per-Ivar Sellergren Senior Research and Development Engineer Volvo Car Corp., Goeteborg, Sweden Sellergren, 60, is helping Volvo put energy storage--both batteries and high-power supercapacitors--in the body panels of cars
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