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If you going to ask for a handout, do so carefully and deliberately. You don't want to just jump into a relationship with an investor.

The CEO of Ritas Italian Ice says franchising your business starts with finding the right partners.

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

In Part 1 of my interview, Sunni Brown, business owner, creative director, speaker and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers , described graphic recording and the definition of Gamestorming. Below, Sunni discusses how to create innovative environments that produce amazing ideas

Some ideas are crazy. Some are underdeveloped. Some will fail

Google's digital marketing evangelist breaks down five steps to starting your company on the right web-analytics track. There are world-class analytics tools available for free from both Yahoo and Google that will get you more data than God ever intended you to have. Yet, perhaps shockingly, a vast majority of decisions website owners make are based on faith rather than data

What happens when a software company owner, a roller coaster designer, and a condom maker walk into a monastery?

While you were busy catapulting Angry Birds on your iPhone, scientists at Vanderbilt university were using the components inside your smartphone to create bionic limbs. The Vanderbilt leg , seven years in the making, anticipates the movements of the person wearing it, resulting in a more natural gait instead of the slight dragging experienced by most wearers.

Improve your company's performance appraisal process by reviewing employees earlier and more often. Here's five tips to get you started now. An old joke among human resources professionals is that employee reviews are like fruitcakes.

Learning how to properly qualify a sales lead can be the difference between landing a juicy new business deal or wasting lots of energy barking up the wrong tree. Before the Internet flattened the business world, salespeople used to put significant energy into every single sales meeting. When sales prospects were few and far between, each one would warrant a high-level of attention and courting.

These 10 brands attempted, some more successfully than others, to bounce back from potentially game-ending disasters. Here's what you can learn from them. During an ice storm at New York's JFK airport, JetBlue made the regrettable decision to keep passengers aboard a plane on the runway while food supplies dwindled and outrage grew

Need to solve a tough problem? A study published online February 11 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests you are more likely to succeed if you solve it on another person’s be

Can being ambitious derail your career? It can when it leads to a multitude of bad habits. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from What Got You Here, Won't Get You There (2007) by Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter.

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Digital books are flying off the proverbial shelves. So it might be hard to believe that someone wants to create a new library with at least 10 million books--the kind made from trees