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There's a weird tendency among business owners: to hire clones of themselves.

All customers ask the same questions--of themselves & of you--in this exact order. If you want to sell more, be prepared to answer them.

After a couple dozen successes, Howard Tullman is building Flashpoint Academy, which he calls the front seat of the world stage. From the moment he queues up a movie, boots his computer, and hits the treadmill at 4 a.m.—unfathomably refreshed after three hours' sleep—Tullman is a blur. By 8 a.m., having consumed several newspapers, watched half a film (he sees about 120 a year for professional reasons), and cleared his first 100 e-mails, he arrives at Tribeca Flashpoint Academy, the showplace digital-media-arts college he built one summer in Chicago while all the normal people were at the beach

If nine out of 10 entrepreneurs are starting Web-based businesses. Is that trouble? I spend a lot of time traveling and talking to aspiring entrepreneurs

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?

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

Influenza is common in humans, birds, pigs and even seen in dogs, horses, seals and whales - and now bats, CDC says

Doctors say tattoos unlikely to replace medical alert jewelry

Think herbal remedies are safer than drugs? Experts have concerns about these popular supplements

Recall affects seven lots distributed between Sept.

After 12 weeks, kids who played active Wii video games had same amount of physical activity as kids who played inactive games

Women may not be born with all the eggs they'll ever have, new research suggests

Can citrus fruits lower the risk of having a stroke? CBS News medical contributor Dr. Holly Phillips reports on a new study that suggests flavanones can lower the risk of stroke in women.

A milestone in global effort to eradicate polio reached as second-largest country had no new cases in last year

Condoms can't prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease if they're used incorrectly. Unfortunately, a new review of research finds that condom use errors are all too common.