As a working mom who also happens to be the EVP of CafeMom, a multimedia site that caters to a community of 9 million visitors monthly, Tracy Odell offers some advice on entrepreneurship and work/life balance. A lot of information passes through Tracy Odell’s mind on any given day. As executive vice president of CafeMom
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It won't get you anywhere to gloss over the challenges of a new business venture. Three reasons why. Every day business leaders launch challenging, often risky, initiatives
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It's impossible to work together in a dog-eat-dog showdown. Encourage collaboration and you'll see huge sales growth for years to come
Read More »Be a Shameless Self-Promoter
No need to be embarrassed. As long as you follow these three basic principles, tooting your own horn can bring on major success
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Give yourself a gift this Mother's Day: more time. These tools can help
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Keep these simple facts in mind to build solid, long-term relationships with your customers.
Read More »The Discovery Economy: Why Sharing Your Identity Is A Good Thing
One of the worries about near field communication-enabled tech is that private data could be remotely snooped and used for evil. But the truth is that we may be volunteering info by NFC soon enough
Read More »Relationship Advice: 5 Ways to Ruin Trust
Jargon and inside jokes can undermine a budding relationship with clients, vendors, prospects, or even co-workers. The Brits have an expression, "Too clever by half." It is not a compliment: It refers to people who create a sense of distrust because they come across as wily
Read More »Most Exclusive Tech Conference Ever?
Founders Fund, a venture capital firm, invited engineers and budding entrepreneurs to an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii.
Read More »Molecules to Medicine: Have You Thanked a Clinical Researcher Today?
Seeing a reminder that International Clinical Trials Day will soon occur, I wanted to recognize and thank the clinical research teams and volunteers that make this possible. Clinical research is an enormously complicated endeavor, requiring close cooperation from a number of disparate groups, including sponsors, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory and radiology staff, regulators, ethics committees, suppliers and the community, in addition to the people providing the infrastructure, such as the basic science researchers, statisticians, and managerial support
Read More »Change Any Habit Painlessly: 6 Tips
Almost everything you currently do... you can do even better
Read More »Why Execution (Not Ideas) Will Bring Success
The reason so many would-be entrepreneurs fails is because they get too hung up on their ideas. You know that brilliant idea you have for a new website/smartphone app?
Read More »The 5 Biggest Mistakes You’re Making With Work Relationships
A major telecommunications company once commissioned some research to find out which attributes best predicted long-term leadership success.
Read More »Perfecting the Business of Brainstorming
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week, Spigit, helps companies curate employee ideas and feedback to create a better product or service. As applications for the 2012 Inc.
Read More »How to Be a Visionary Thinker
Are you bringing home the paycheck of your dreams? You can get paid well for doing what you love when you tap into the visionary within. When we entrepreneurs talk about "the dream," we are not talking about a fantasy, like winning the lottery.
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