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Business owners: For better sales efforts, do each of these 30-minute tasks just once a week--but do them every week. Feeling overwhelmed

Five tips to help you create and proliferate your most important brand asset--you--and gain notoriety for your business. Dan Schawbel, founder of Millennial Branding, on how social networks are part of the mix

A U.K. chocolatier part-owned by Ghanaian cocoa farmers contends with currency fluctuations as it expands abroad. Learning to be a successful exporter is a tough challenge for most businesses.

Picture your business helping millions of people solve a problem.

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

As tech-sector regulations pile on for start-ups, here's how to keep innovating while weathering the legal storm. Is your company a scofflaw? Are you sure

Building these steps into your operations will help you to significantly improve customer retention and create significant value for your business. We hate to sound like a broken record, but we can't say it enough—developing loyal customers is the most important thing you can do for your business

If you can't describe your own products without resorting to marketingspeak, you're losing sales. Here are 3 mistakes to avoid. Most product descriptions suck, especially when they’re written by marketing people who have never sold anything.

Brooklyn's business leaders ponder the future of hacking, crowdfunding, and your customers' shopping habits in the second TEDxBrooklyn. How will you "redefine better" in 2012? Friday's TEDxBrooklyn conference focused on that theme by bringing together some of the biggest forces that have "bettered" the borough in recent years

Here are the steps to take to prevent yourself from getting burned by your clients.

Tiny keyboards, cramped screens, voice-activated search -- it's all going to change how people find your business online. Start preparing now. If projections are accurate , in less than three years there are likely to be more mobile Internet users than desktop users

Two serial entrepreneurs set out to succeed where Pets.com failed. It's worked -- so far -- because they've followed these key principles. At first glance , Alex Zhardanvosky and Joe Speiser don’t practice the “stick to your core competencies” mantra they preach.

I never went to CEO school. But here's how I learned to drive my business forward profitably. Hint: Its not just about number crunching

You're far from VCs and surrounded by people who don't like risks. Then again, the potential to be a big fish in a small pond is huge. Launching a tech start-up outside the VC-obsessed Silicon Valley and New York City comes with a catch-22.

You're probably making these five classic public-relations mistakes.