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Jobless Claims Dip by 2,000

More on Inc. Wire: One-Third of Google's Acquisitions Have Failed | Small Business Owners Shrug at Crowdfunding | Microsoft Turns to Start-ups to Move Kinect Forward. Read more

Ad Campaign Smackdown: Facebook v. Google

If you're still betting on display ads, here's where to go for more bang for your buck. Read more

Give a Great Product Demo: 5 Rules

How to give a demonstration that helps convince a customer to actually buy the product. Read more

Do Typos Matter?

In an age of tiny keyboards and emoticons, you may think typos don't matter. Not so, according to someone who's been addressed as Mr. Renay Seagull. Read more

How to Score a Job at a Tech Start-up

Can you handle long hours, low pay, and impossibly high expectations? The start-up life might be for you. Here's how to break in. Read more

Increase Your Retail Foot Traffic

Tips on how to generate customer interest from Cyriac Roeding, co-founder of Shopkick, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Watch video

You Can Compete with Free--and Win

A good product is always more important than the free alternative, even when you sell yo-yo upgrades. Read more

The Hack That Helped Launch a Company

Start-up Voyager Mobile got hacked--and wound up tripling the media attention for its launch. Read more

Private Markets Adjust to Life After Facebook

With their big cash cow now a public company, secondary trading markets look beyond hot start-ups to fill the void. Read more

To Groupon or Not to Groupon?

Understand your customers--and the possible return, if any--before you make a Groupon-like offer. Read more

Never Be an Employee Again

Chef Kevin Meehan climbed the culinary ladder--then struck out on his own. Now he is pioneering a whole new movement in dining. Read more

The Importance of Giving Back

We volunteer at soup kitchens. We tutor kids. We donate. Not only is helping your community the right thing to do--it's also good business. Read more

Making of a CEO: Leading Change

How do you become a real CEO, instead of a CEO-by-default? Part two of a five-part series. Read more

How to Sell in the Summer: 5 Tips

Summer is the most difficult time to prospect and land deals. Get ahead of the game now to max out your sales productivity. Read more

4 Strategies for High-Speed Sales

Trying to speed up your sales cycle? These organizational changes should make your team more nimble. Read more

Fixing a Nightmare With a Hammer and Wood

Builder Linda Gridley didn't understand the growing challenge of housing multiple generations until her mom moved in. Read more

Hot Industry: Residential Construction

There are big opportunities in residential housing development, where revenues are projected to rise an average 10.4% annually for the next five years. Read more

Behind the Scenes at Small Business Week

The SBA loaned small businesses more this year than ever before. But behind the scenes at Small Business Week 2012, entrepreneurs are still fretting over credit access and financing health care. Read more

Why Gotham Dream Cars Founder Ignores Traditional Media

Noah Lehmann-Haupt, founder of Gotham Dream Cars, a luxury car rental company, focuses exclusively on targeted Internet marketing. Watch video

6 Marketing Techniques for Every Entrepreneur

Tools and advice from Neil Patel, co-founder of KISSmetrics, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Watch video

New App Aims to Reinvent the Phone Call

Mobile phones have become slimmer, lighter, and laden with features. But the basic phone call has hardly evolved. A new start-up aims to change that. Read more

Be Happier at Work: 3 Smart Tips

Google's "chief happiness officer" shares some of the wisdom that has made the company's employees more content and productive. Read more

Sell More by Not Selling at All

Five ways to forge relationships--and close more deals--directly with CEOs. Read more

How to Get Acquired for a Big Price

Some companies are bought for huge sums, while other similar ones never get much notice. How to get on the road to the big acquisition. Read more

10 Standouts at Small Business Week

Ohio's Victoria Tifft was the big winner, but there were 51 other nominees. Check out 10 other great entrepreneurs in the spotlight now. Read more

Your Most Powerful Leadership Tool

Forget the pep talks, the reviews, and the carrots and sticks. Here's the one thing that you're probably not doing--but need to. Read more

How to Ask Your Bank for Money

You're not pitching the upside--you're alleviating fears about downside risk. Make sure you know the difference. Read more

Warby Parker's Growth Secrets

Inc. Live: The eyeglass maker's co-founder, Neil Blumenthal, reveals his strategies for bootstrapping and handling big competition. Watch video

4 Crucial Tech Mistakes to Avoid

You're no IT person--you have a business to run!--but you can't afford to get these technology decisions wrong. Read more

How to Survive Your Start-up's First Year

Your first year as an entrepreneur can be terrifying. Here's how to make it less so. Read more

Why Start-up Culture Is Bad for Creativity

Founders are expected to perform under pressure, iterate on the fly, and fail fast. But is that ethos doing more harm than good? Read more

3 Tips for Executing Ideas

Great ideas are, well, great--but it takes real work to move from inspiration to an action plan. Here's how to get started. Read more

How Valuable Is Your Rolodex?

Building, nurturing and growing your professional network is more important than ever. Here are three simple steps to increase the value of your network. Read more

Are You Assertive--or Aggressive?

High-pressure sales tactics can be more annoying than effective. There's a better way to move a deal forward. Read more

6 Ways to Fix Your Frozen To Do List

Feel stuck? If you can't prioritize your company's to do list, none of your decisions will ever get executed. Read more

6 Things You Missed at TechCrunch Disrupt

Who's buying Facebook stock, which CEO thinks Dropbox is overvalued, what's paining Tumblr ... and more from Monday's event. Read more

Meet the 'Small Business Person of the Year'

Victoria Tifft contracted malaria in West Africa, which inspired her to found a booming medical research company that earned acclaim at National Small Business Week. Read more

7 Email Marketing Mistakes Not to Make

We've sent more than 1.5 billion emails since launching five years ago. We've made a few mistakes--and learned some vital lessons. Read more

Staff Surveys: Risks and Rewards

You may think you know what's going on with your team. But survey data is far better than anecdotal observation. Read more

Best Way to Motivate Employees

Effective motivation often comes down to just one surprising word. That might be why so many leaders fail to do it right. Read more

How to Turn Networking into a Business

James Miller and Samantha Ballenger, co-founders of Network After Work, have helped thousands of people secure new jobs and useful contacts. Here's how. Watch video

Eric Ripert: How to Be Good

Success isn't just a reward; it's a responsibility. The celebrity chef offers six ways any business can give back and make a difference. Read more

How Facebook IPO Helped Start-ups

Despite the lackluster share price, the social media giant's debut is a win for innovation, user experience ... and the little guy. Read more

How to Hire Right and Delegate Well

You are at the helm of your business, but if you are there all alone you might just sink the ship. Read more

Negotiating Trick: Keep Your Cool

Forget about playing hardball: New research out of Stanford reveals a better way to master negotiations. Read more

Business Is Not a Battlefield

Companies and individuals who see business as a form of warfare tend to pursue dead-end strategies. Read more

Big Data Saved My Company (and Gave Me a Second Shot at Google)

Using data, Turn is revolutionizing the way marketers advertise. In the process, it has to head off Google. Read more

Hot Industry: Big Data

The market--data hardware, software, and services--is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in sales revenue in 2010 to $17 billion by 2015. Read more

Not Producing Content? You Should Be

To distinguish yourself from your competitors, you must have content, and you must have a unique voice. Read more

A Control Freak's Guide to Delegating

To keep your start-up from dying of indecision, you have to give real authority to the members of your team. For many founders, that's not easy. Read more

Why You Must Have a Social Mission

Inc. Live | Co-founder Neil Blumenthal talks about his disruptive eyewear company's roots and mission. Watch video