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Got a great product that's all steak and no sizzle? Road ID co-founder Edward Wimmer on how to craft the killer pitch.

Hit a performance wall? Here are four ways to break through it.

For years researchers have been trying to figure out the best ways of making plants produce biofuels. But there is a funda

New York State is the key battleground that will determine the future of fracking in the U.S., and January 11, 2012, is a turning point.

Noted public speaking coach Sims Wyeth offers 10 koan-like tips that will calm your nerves and leave your audience applauding. Your job as a business owner is 90% communication: You have to communicate the goals of your enterprise and rally your employees around them, and the most effective way to that is still the spoken word. Sims Wyeth, one of the best presentation coaches I know, says, “Public speaking is the number one tool of leadership because when you get people in a room to hear the same message at the same time, you have the greatest chance of moving them to action.” This isn’t something that software is likely to change

Do you procrastinate on making decisions?

Use these questions to analyze your recent sales performance--both wins and losses--to get more wins in 2012. “Learn from your mistakes.” You’ve probably been hearing this all your life from well-meaning parents/teachers/bosses.

Why your website user experience matters--and how to create a great one. Facebook vs

Feel like a failure?

The five questions you're afraid to ask a buyer are actually the key to increasing sales and ramping up efficiency. Hey, no one ever said sales was easy.

Professor Dr.

I'm the world's worst social media marketer. So I'm going to use my wedding photography business as the guinea pig and try every trick out there.

I’m halfway around the world, in Brisbane, Australia, where, yesterday, I finished an intense two-day strategy session for the top 50 managers of a company determined to take over the world. Maybe not your world, but the world of installing large AC systems. During the strategy session, we stepped through a process of "strategic imagination" that I introduce in my next book, Outthink the Competition

Wine drinkers know that swirling a good vintage around in a glass aerates the wine and releases its bouquet. Just how the process – known as "orbital shaking" – works, however, has been something of a mystery.

The purpose-driven company is lead by someone who has a reliable inner compass guiding them.