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Body language and verbal cues will tell you if your prospect is ready to buy. A sale takes two people, but not just any two people. An effective sale is most often achieved between two (or more) people who have synergy between them and understand the desired outcome for, not just one, but both parties

It’s becoming common practice among small businesses to have employees spread out all over the country and even all over the globe. How do you establish a company culture when employees are not working together in the same office everyday?

Once relegated to the domain of only large companies, business intelligence software is getting easier to implement by small and medium businesses that want to better analyze their data. People have been looking at data to bolster business since the beginning of, well, business. Go way, way back and a Roman sandal-clad street merchant 2,000 years ago might have noticed over time that he gets about a dozen more customers buying his wares on the days when he puts a canopy over his wagon as a shield from the hot midday sun.

If you're ready to throw in the towel on Twitter, take a closer look at what you'll be missing out on. The other day a friend who is trying to establish herself on Twitter told me that she was giving up. She just doesn’t get it and doesn’t know what to say, she told me

At the moment, that's how it looks! Hewlett Packard has announced it is buying search software company Autonomy for $10.3 billion.

Economist Dean Karlan's new book looks at what works and what doesn't work in the fight against global poverty.

Architect Gisue Hariri shares the items she can't live without. .caption {color:#666;font-size:12px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} .boxxy {display:inline-block;width:280px;border:none;margin:6px;vertical-align:top;} Photo by Ryan Pfluger To make architectural statements, Gisue Hariri employs digital technology and modern materials--but the Iranian-born architect, who runs the New York firm Hariri & Hariri with her sister Mojgan, looks to ancient sources for inspiration

The creative collective made a video for the Japanese band Androp using 250 Canon still cameras. Their flashes were controlled via a potent DIY cocktail of arduino, openFrameworks, and Flash. Individually, the founders of Tokyo- and New York-based Party have created some of the most interesting music-driven videos of the last few years

In an exclusive interview with the man behind the popular fake Twitter feed @osamainhell, Fast Company finds out what it takes to do 24/7 Twitter satire, along with some tips for aspiring comedians. Twitter is chock full of humorous fake feeds with massive cult followings. The microblogging service's 140-character message limit has turned out to be the perfect forum for one-line zingers, as the individuals behind @fakeapstylebook , @bpglobalpr and @mayoremanuel all discovered for themselves

What happens when an employee disregards--or doesn't hear--a manager's instructions to save the company's Fourth of July barbecue hot dogs for a Labor Day soiree? We are not making this up.

With the initial fuss about Google+ dying down, the real potential for the social system to challenge popular net apps is breaking through. Foursquare-challenging check-ins If you run the mobile app version of Google+ you can't help but spot the Check-ins feature --it's right there on the front page.

...now what? What's behind Google's slow-launch approach, plus, what's irking the Twitterati about the search giant's social network (hint: everything). The first formal reviews of Google+, the social-network-news-feed-video-chat hybrid, are in

Take flight for a carefree charter vacation aboard EAGLE`s NEST. At just under 100 feet in length, she`s large enough to host eight to ten guests in comfort with all the expected amenities and just the right size to get into intriguing ports and anchorages off limits to larger yachts. Service is personal and highly professional.

For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs . Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS.

Anatomy of a winner takes us through the key decisions that took a piece of work from good to great--and won the campaign for NTT DoCoMo Touch Wood SH-08C a Golden Lion at Cannes.