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Everyone at my company understands that the next sale begins when the customer says yes, and making that sale is part of their job.

Writing things down, with your actual hands, is just plain better at getting you to remember and execute good ideas. Here's why. There’s all kinds of advice across the web about when to use which app for each small thing that needs doing.

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The billionaire sympathizes with OWS, and he has a plan for sending the protesters home satisfied. Entrepreneurs, he wants your help

Questlove launches a catering start-up and boldly claims fried fowl is the new craze. There's a long list of contenders—or pretenders—looking to dethrone cupcakes as the latest food craze. Macarons

Remember the last time you visited a new office building, airport, or university campus and were lost the moment you stepped away from the main doors? That's a problem that buildings like large hospitals try to fix with color-coded lines painted on the floor, complex signage systems, and other tweaks--usually very low-tech

On a summer day in 1975, I stepped up the tee at the Liberty Country Club .

Facebook will likely go public by next summer, making its founder Mark Zuckerberg (even more) stinking rich. Clearly, the 27-year-old has done a few things right.

All across the United States, nay all around the world, the message about higher education is uniform: More people should go to university. President Obama has repeatedly stated on record that "by 2020 America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world." The Lumina Foundation is working to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees to 60% by 2025 .

If you’ve seen Eminem’s movie 8 Mile, you surely remember the scene of an industrial basement packed with hip-hop fans assembled for the battle between rival rappers.

As someone who works with entrepreneurs for a living, I'm always very proud of the role business owners play in supporting the economy. As someone who works with entrepreneurs for a living, I'm always very proud of the role business owners play in supporting the economy. Among the many by-products of their efforts is job creation.

Pepper spray is all over the news, following the Occupy Wall Street protests, particularly following the widely disseminated images and videos of protestors being sprayed in NY, Portland, and UCDavis . Before that, I knew and occasionally used its main ingredient, capsaicin, as a treatment for my patients with shingles, an extremely painful Herpes zoster infection. And I knew about the many of the serious side effects of pepper spray, well-described by Deborah Blum .

Here's what's getting in your way when you attempt (and fail) to hit those "reach" goals. Many people fall prey to, “Yeah, but...” thinking. I have a friend who absolutely hates how successful his brother-in-law has become.