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Whether youre pitching a product, an investment, or an idea, these questions will help you seal the deal without any fancy sales pitches or techniques. Convincing other parties to buy into your viewpoint is critical to growing your business.

The last thing we need are more meetings, but having a company-wide gathering will allow you to make sure that everyone is marching toward the same goals. I admit it, all-hands meetings are a tough one, especially if you’ve got a larger small business. At my company, VerticalResponse , we were once split between two floors in a building and didn’t have the luxury of space to get everyone together

Making an investment is like being at the racetrack: Sometimes we make investments based on gut decision, but the horse, jockey, and individual race matter, too.

Feeling like a failure in business?

Here are three powerful reasons why using humor attracts customers and helps communication. Knock Knock! Who’s there? Iowa.

Imagine a world where there are no downloads.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Sony Hack May Have Leaked 50K MJ Tracks .

Companies gather ever more information about us, and better technology means they can crunch it faster. That should actually make for better service--and more interesting content. With all the scaremongering going on these days about how much advertisers and websites know about us , you'd think certain online sites would be able to do a much better job in matching their ads to our interests

Kenny Nguyen of Big Fish Presentations is ridding the world of humdrum slide shows, one client at a time. Kenny Nguyen, founder and CEO of Big Fish Presentations knows how to give an amazing presentation.

Managing those who can say no to you is a huge challenge. I recommend the Tinker Bell theory.

Forgot about National Employee Appreciation Day?

.bigbody a {color:#008CB3;} .bigbody img {display:inline-block;width:100px;vertical-align:top;} .bigbody p {display:inline-block;width:480px;vertical-align:top;} Tim Quirk Head of Android global content programming, Google The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett "Pratchett, who's pretty much the Mark Twain of fantasy, is returning to his sci-fi roots. Speaking of Twain, where is volume two of the autobiography he wouldn't allow to be published until 100 years after his death?"

Drowning in a PowerPoint swamp?

The power of cooperation and comedy to make useful products. As much as we may love the romantic idea of creativity as a solo, heroic activity, the truth more often is that innovation requires collaboration. We need other people to refine, develop, and test our ideas; that's one of the reasons we do so much work in teams

When Vibram had trouble meeting demand for its popular FiveFingers running shoes, the market became flooded with counterfeit, nearly identical, shoes. Here's how it fought back.