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Your employees may never say no to a bonus, but that doesn't mean it's the ideal way to credit their work. Examples from Foursquare and other innovative companies show how to make your rewards as creative as the ideas they're rewarding. Projet Cr

To scale up a knowledge-based business, it's necessary to take yourself out of the equation. Here's one solution for how to grow your business. One of the most common questions I get from business owners comes from people who sell their expertise for a living

This Massachusetts company connects brands to the influential and elusive busy mom. During an eight-year stint as a lawyer at Harvard Law School, Stacy DeBroff realized that there were many women around her struggling to maintain balance between work and family life.

When I was a staff writer at Rolling Stone in the mid 90s, listening to music at work was part of the job description. But back in those days of yore, we had actual [gasp] stereos that played CD's, even at times, cassette tapes! But while technology has radically changed, one thing has remained constant: Music in the workplace equals happy time

We're all human, you know? That's roughly the trick that the hackers most likely relied on when, earlier this year, they managed to steal over 24,000 files from a defense contractor

Wicked Start, an online incubator for early-stage start-ups, provides practical, no cost or low cost resources. A self-described "corporate refugee turned entrepreneur," Bryan Janeczko worked at Morgan Stanley before founding his own venture, an online prepared food vendor called NuKitchen.

The thriller, out today, borrows a page from Bible-toting film supporters to market a movie with a godless message. When it comes to promoting his new thriller to an atheist audience, writer/director Matthew Chapman isn’t waiting on a miracle.

A new survey suggests people will go to great lengths to avoid PowerPoint presentations, either giving them or listening to them. Just how excruciating do people find PowerPoint presentations? Nearly a quarter of workers would rather forego sex for the night than sit through a lame presentation, says a new survey

Some of history's greatest entrepreneurs werent satisfied with a single great idea.

This article is specifically geared to my PR industry readers. I have a question: do you use CisionPoint ?

The July 4th weekend is just behind us and I spent a good part of last week thinking about summer and how my expectation for work-free vacations might or might not be about to disappear with the launch of FamiliesGo!. Back when I had a staff job at a major business magazine I had an editor who asked me to miss an evening flight that would start my annual vacation to do an eleventh-hour revise on a story. Now, he'd known about my trip for well over a month and I'd filed this story several weeks earlier

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Four entrepreneurs offer Artsicle their marketing ideas and help the start-up craft a following.

Dealing with low-priced competitors Dear Norm, My husband and I started a business that makes and installs customized sheds. Our plan was to offer better service and higher quality than our competitors.

Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husbands and her doctors advice that she slow down. She has since divorced and opened a fourth store. The best medicine Lisa Kornstein shrugged off her husband's and her doctors' advice that she slow down.