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Your office says a lot about your leadership style.

Online feedback can be a painful wound--or a powerful tool--for your business image.

What's Greece got to do with your business? How worried should you be?

Dying to get retweeted by a celebrity? Here are 20 celebrities that will tweet about your business for a price. Dying to get retweeted by a celebrity?

Statistics , arguments, sales figures, and passionate explanations claiming

Does your company plan things correctly? Or are meetings unproductive due to poor planning? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Getting Things Done (2001) by David Allen.

If you follow these steps, daily deals can be a great benefit to your business.

How Sweet Spot, a hair removal salon, used Blue Calypso's word-of-mouth solution to generate sales and repeat clients, something LivingSocial had failed to do. The Company: The Sweet Spot, a Dallas hair removal salon that specializes in sugaring, an alternative to waxing The Goal: Attract customers to the newly opened salon The Execution: The Sweet Spot's founder, Erin Cox, noticed links to products and services on her friends' Facebook Walls that looked a lot like promotions. She followed the links and realized they all originated from Blue Calypso, a mobile marketing platform through which businesses reward people for sharing ads via Twitter, Facebook, or text message.

The skinny on TripIt's new shared calendar, which makes it easier to keep track of coworkers. Keeping track of traveling co-workers can be a headache. TripIt, the online trip-planning company, recently launched a shared calendar designed to keep everyone in the loop

The evolution of a complex feature story about a peripatetic entrepreneur, Jared Heyman, and his keep-the-office-fires-burning counterpart, Carl Fusco. In each issue , I fall in love with at least one story. This month, it's Amy Barrett's cover feature on the peripatetic entrepreneur Jared Heyman and his keep-the-office-fires-burning counterpart, Carl Fusco

Omar Ansari of Surly Brewing had to fight the law to launch his craft brewery. A child of entrepreneurial parents , Omar Ansari knew what it was like to run a small business—in this case, an industrial abrasives manufacturer based outside Minneapolis.

Good salespeople focus on the particular feature the customer cares about.

Larry Kirchner had a penchant for gore even at a young age. His sick obsession has grown into a global rave

Larry Kirchner had a penchant for gore even at a young age. His sick obsession has grown into a global rave. I built my first haunted house after school in the fourth grade

What worked well for your company yesterday may not be the best today. Make sure you're getting the best results by putting various parts of your business to the test. You go into a dressing room with 10 pairs of jeans to try on, even though you just need one.