Shane McLaughlin


Hands On: Mentors For Hire

Want to learn all you can about starting the business of your dreams but don't have a lot of time? You can do what Iris Shur and Jean Sifleet did: pay exp...  Read story

Why have I been hearing so much about business ethics and corporate responsibility lately?

Ethics in Business mentor Jeffrey Seglin responds: More and more people are wrestling with these issues. The Internet has been great...  Read story

Name That Domain

After the domain name rush? What's in a domain name? More than you realize. Getting your own catchy corner in cyberspace can mean ...  Read story

Name That Domain

After the domain name rush? What's in a domain name? More than you realize. Getting your own catchy corner in cyberspace can mean ...  Read story

Online 101: Marketing Your Web Site

In the few short years the World Wide Web has been open for business, banner advertisements have grown from a mere blip on the screen to a $2 billion indu...  Read story

What made you decide to start working from home in the 1970s?

Running a One-Person Business mentors Paul and Sarah Edwards respond: Sarah: I discovered working from home when...  Read story

Online 101: Marketing Your Web Site

In the few short years the World Wide Web has been open for business, banner advertisements have grown from a mere blip on the screen to a $2 billion indu...  Read story

Get Out of the House

Everyone should work at home. That's what the pundits were saying just a few years ago. The reality: whilesome people love the freedom, others have found ...  Read story

Block that Megabyte

With increasing numbers of dancing babies, holiday greeting cards, and space games whizzing through cyberspace as E-mail attachments, servers across the c...  Read story

The Ego and the IT

If we told you that there was a cheap way to perform psychological testing on potential employees, well, you might tell us to get our heads examined. But ...  Read story

GreenTree Vs. MotherNature.com

In " What Level Playing Field? " from the May 1999 issue, Inc. staff writer Marc Ballon...  Read story

Photo Op

Here's how Burgess International, an importer of bath fixtures in Romulus, MI, uses a digital-picture database to provide customers with up-to-date, detailed...  Read story

A Real Dream Job

Russ Klettke, principal of the Chicago public-relations firm Klettke + Associates, believes that a good napcan help you work better. "I'm not narcoleptic,...  Read story

Smog Lifters

There are people out there who are even more information deluged than you are. Eleven of the smartest--and most beleaguered--reveal their personal regimens f...  Read story

Getting In on the Ground Floor

The last thing Matt Phelan ever wanted to do was to run a storefront operation. But last year Phelan gave up his fancy office on the second floor of...  Read story

Paying Cash for Contacts

Abolishing salaries to jump-start sales may seem extreme, but Billy Ross credits just such a move with helping to turnaround Super 1, his $14 million recr...  Read story

Web Sites We Love

Inc. 500 CEOs reveal some of the ways they're using the Web to locate critical information, ranging from news on venture capital and specific industries to t...  Read story

Office MacGyver

Paul Kilker, CEO of $15 million GGS Information Services, in York, Pa., was about to perform the last rites over two Hewlett-Packard laser printers. The m...  Read story

Criminal Record

Comdex brings to the Sands Expo Center, in Las Vegas, a lot of expensive computer equipment and a lot of opportunities for crime. So Frank Strocchia, whos...  Read story

Good Apples

Considering technology's rapid advances and built-in obsolescence, it's pretty amazing when a computer company ben...  Read story

Do You Have What It Takes To Be an Inc. 500 CEO?

A look at some personality traits common to Inc. 500 CEOs: flexibility, independent thinking, single-mindedness, and stubbornness.  Read story