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Read More »Marketing Makeover: Fix This Email Pitch
Email marketing fails when a message contains just biz-blab and fake emotion. Here's how to write a note that generates real leads. One of the weirdest phenomenons I see: otherwise articulate people who lapse into biz-blab and jargon as soon they try to write an email pitch.
Read More »Marketing Makeover: Fix This Email Pitch
Email marketing fails when a message contains just biz-blab and fake emotion. Here's how to write a note that generates real leads.
Read More »How to Land a Great Columnist Gig
Have a lot of war stories from your start-up days? Here's how to get a byline in a high-profile publication -- no experience required.
Read More »How We Compete With AOL
In early 2010, Jane Byrant Quinn and Carll Tucker launched a community-based news website. Today they compete with AOL. Here's how they changed the game.
Read More »How To Talk To Your Boss And Fix Your Job
It's all too easy to spend long stretches simmering at your desk instead of having a straight-ahead talk with your boss.
Read More »How Do You Define Customer Value?
Business owners sound off about determining customer value.
Read More »Work Smarter, And Harder
These books that lead you to believe that you can achieve success by simply working smarter and not harder are lying. I was recently speaking to Dan Hanlon, CEO of Excelsior-Henderson motorcycle company, one of the greatest U.S
Read More »Leadership Hall Of Fame: Jim Collins, Author Of "Good To Great"
With the economic downturn, can companies still become great? We continue our examination of the business book Good to Great with an interview of author Jim Collins. What was the impetus for you to write Good to Great
Read More »Why Free Consulting Is a Bad Idea
If you can't draw a hard line, you may end up losing both the sale--and your shirt. On Friday of last week, I posted a list of 10 strategies for outselling a huge competitor
Read More »Why Free Consulting Is a Bad Idea
If you can't draw a hard line, you may end up losing both the sale--and your shirt. On Friday of last week, I posted a list of 10 strategies for outselling a huge competitor . Based on reader comments, one of those strategies ("No Free Consulting") proved a bit confusing
Read More »It’s Time to Kill Year-End Lists
I've read 21 'best/top/worst' lists so far this year--and most were a waste of time.
Read More »Outbrain’s Content Recommending Ways Seduce Readers To Stick Around
The New York-based startup demolishes conventional wisdom about the best ways to draw in readers--and snaps up $64 million in financing. Online recommendations systems are usually based on the assumption that if you're interested in one thing, you'll be interested in similar things--a principle called "relevancy".
Read More »TW Steel Furnishes Formula 1 Track Time for Robb Report
A Robb Report reader entered the rarefied world of grand prix drivers when he participated in Lotus Renault GP’s i-Race program at the Hungaroring circuit in Budapest, Hungary.
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