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Business relationships can sometimes turn bad. Heres how to protect your business from a bad breakup.
Read More »Is Your Social Media Marketing a Turn Off?
Turns out, the line between promoting your brand and cyber-stalking your customers is thinner than you think. Getting "liked" online in some form or another has become a de rigueur part of marketing. But a recent poll of consumers who use social networks suggests just how easy it is for companies to unwittingly convince people to click that invisible, but oh so potent, "hate" button.
Read More »4 Steps to a Billion-Dollar Business Idea
There is an unprecedented opportunity today to make money while doing good for the world. Here's how to find a place to break in.
Read More »Guy Kawasaki’s Social Media Secret
The founder of Alltop.com explains his social media strategy (and tells uis why Google+ may overtake Facebook). Guy Kawasaki wears many hats.
Read More »Don’t Hire People Like Yourself
There's a weird tendency among business owners: to hire clones of themselves.
Read More »Golden Rule of Networking: Don’t Keep Score
This is the only way to win at networking: Always offer to help. Never expect anything in return. I call it Golden Rule of Networking, and it should permeate all your networking efforts
Read More »The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh
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Read More »Capital Well’s Next-Generation Solution
New Hampshire's Capital Well is facing a classic predicament; Its core product is rapidly becoming commoditized. It needs to innovate--fast. Here's how
Read More »Out of Sight, Top of Mind
How to keep a business on track when its top performers are scattered across the map. Caldwell, Idaho
Read More »4 Cool Tools to Engage Customers Online
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?
Read More »Norm Brodsky on Weighing Prospective Clients
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
Read More »Norm Brodsky on the Right Way to Reward Top Employees
When you have a stand-out employee, is increasing pay and benefits enough? Dear Norm, I own food-tour companies in 11 cities.
Read More »New Incubator Focuses on Female Founders
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
Read More »Fearlessly Take Risks to Grow Your Firm
Go ahead.
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