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John J. Kilcullen: My Biggest Mistake

By Anne Marie Borrego |  May 1, 2000

John J. Kilcullen Chairman and CEO of IDG Books Worldwide, creator of the Dummies series of how-to books. T...  Read more

Upstarts: ASPs

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Apr 1, 2000

Say good-bye to software as we know it and hello to ASP start-ups.  Read more

Create Stickiness with Streaming Media

By Ronni Rhodes |  Apr 1, 2000

OK! You've finally gotten customers to your Web site after a large investment in time and effort, not to mention money. What? They're not staying long eno...  Read more

ASPs Open New E-Commerce Opportunities

By Mary Hillebrand |  Mar 10, 2000

New high-speed Internet access services like DSL and cable modems areopening the door to a new vision of computing. Many software companies are looking to...  Read more

ASPs Open New E-Commerce Opportunities

By Mary Hillebrand |  Mar 1, 2000

New high-speed Internet access services like DSL and cable modems areopening the door to a new vision of computing. Many software companies are looking to...  Read more

Accounting Doesn't Have to Be Mind-Numbing

Oct 22, 1999

Perhaps the hardest part of accounting is getting over the psychological hang-up that most people seem to have about it. Many of us are loath to balance o...  Read more

New Ideas for Fighting Spam

Oct 11, 1999

An organization focused on controlling spam has come up with new proposals that give Internet service providers more effective weapons to fight unsolicite...  Read more

What Data Warehousing Can Do for You

Oct 1, 1999

Data Warehousing Advice for Managers by Patricia L. Ferdinandi. AMACOM, 208 pages, $29.95. There's been a lot of buzz ...  Read more

Checking Data More Than Twice

Sep 22, 1999

Whether they are test-marketing a new fruit drink, beta-testing computer software, or running clinical trials on an antibiotic, companies share a common c...  Read more

Housing Crisis

By Deborah Asbrand |  Sep 15, 1999

Considering bringing a substantial technology project in-house? First read how Market Insights' founders fell victim to poor planning, bad advice, finicky te...  Read more

Gates and the People Who Hate Him

Sep 1, 1999

The Plot to Get Bill Gates by Gary Rivlin. Random House, 360 pages, $25. For some, he's a brilliant visionary; for others, a monop...  Read more

Choosing Accounting Software

By Michael Pellecchia |  Aug 15, 1999

Here's what you need to consider when choosing accounting software: Auditing features. These might include a map mode, an...  Read more

Big-Time IT for Small Companies

By Ilan Mochari |  Aug 1, 1999

A few start-ups are teaming up with tech-industry veterans to help small companies rent high-powered software that they previously could not afford.  Read more

Diss Connection

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Mar 1, 1999

Inc.'s Road Warrior explains that while the Internet can keep you in touch with work no matter where you are, sometimes you have to pull the plug and relax.  Read more

Room for One More?

By Jay Jaffe |  Mar 1, 1999

The CEO of Jaffe Associates reviews DiskMapper, a graphical file-management software product.  Read more

Best of Show

By Jim Sterne |  Mar 1, 1999

The president of Target Marketing reviews TRAQ-IT Tradeshow Software, a tool for planning, managing, and overseeing the exhaustive details of your company's ...  Read more

Play Computer Games to Sharpen Skills

Jan 1, 1999

Sneaking in a daily round or two of Doom might actually help you run your business better, says Lewis Paine of Opta Food Ingredients, in Bedford, Mass. Th...  Read more

Software That Cuts Legal Fees

Jan 1, 1999

When Munchkin, a $15 million designer and marketer of baby bottles and other products for infants, needed a secondinternational-distribution agreement, Ch...  Read more

Personal Best

By Joseph D. Freedman |  Dec 1, 1998

The president of Amicus Legal Staffing reviews LifePeak, a personal-achievement software product that helps users find balance in their lives through self-ev...  Read more

Game Plan

By Emily Esterson |  Dec 1, 1998

Bruce Lemmerman, director of college scouting for the New Orleans Saints, uses a database to record both statistical and subjective information about prospec...  Read more

Plug In and Play on the Internet

By Kevin Owens |  Sep 15, 1998

The cofounder and CEO of Select Design reviews Whistle InterJet, a machine that lets you easily connect your LAN to the Internet without a Web server, modem,...  Read more

Edged Out

By Russ Baker |  Aug 1, 1998

When Jim Heard and Gregg Trueman, founding partners of the Buoyant Co., began to battle over key company decisions, their staff decided to oust them both.  Read more

Sales: United Nations

By Emily Esterson |  Jun 15, 1998

A CEO explains how an Internet-based translation service now allows him to respond to email composed in foreign languages, resulting in a 60 percent increase...  Read more

He's Got the Whole Worllit in His Hands

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 15, 1998

Inc. 's Road Warrior recounts his frustrating experiences trying to download and compose E-mail on the road using a PalmPilot.  Read more

When Something Clicks

By Mie-Yun Lee |  Jun 15, 1998

A look at how digital cameras helped streamline operations at two businesses and the process the CEOs went through to select the best cameras for their speci...  Read more

Do-It-Yourself Efficiency Expert

Jan 1, 1998

Karen Settle, president of Keystone Marketing Specialists, in Las Vegas, has mastered multitasking. Keystone, a $5-million company, provides employee comp...  Read more

Battling E-mail Excess

Jan 1, 1998

The push-button ease of e-mail and the never-out-of-touch capabilities of a pager-cellular phone combo have many CEOs wondering how they managed without t...  Read more

Is E-mail Private? Not at Work

Jan 1, 1998

Is employees' E-mail protected by privacy laws? Recent controversial court rulings have generated confusion on the matter. Lee Gesmer, partner in the Bost...  Read more

" Focus, Baby, Focus"

Jan 1, 1998

Focus groups are a great way to get closer to your customers--to solidify your relationship with current customers and to forge relationships with new one...  Read more

If You Build It, They Will Come

Jan 1, 1998

Time and again, companies report that once a database is up and running, sales grow at least 10% to 30% as a result. But you can't exactly create one at t...  Read more

Correspondence School

Jan 1, 1998

Salespeople have always been notorious telephone addicts. Now they are getting hooked on E-mail, too. While E-mail is wonderful for keeping clients posted...  Read more

Outer Resources

By Anne Field |  Dec 15, 1997

A look at two companies, Air Taser and CFData, that became successful largely because they outsourced the technology-intensive aspects of their businesses.  Read more

Uneasy Rider

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

John Healy, CEO of Coventry Spares Ltd., realized that the year 2000 bug would paralyze his antiquated computer system. Here's how he brought his motorcycle-...  Read more

Network

By Inc. staff |  Dec 15, 1997

Inc. Technology readers react to past articles, including Leigh Buchanan's, "Tick...tick...," John Grossmann's "Efficiency Experts," and Jeff Seglin's "Where...  Read more

E-Mail Talkies

By Garry Kvistad |  Sep 15, 1997

A CEO reviews a video software package, which he likes, but not as a sales tool.  Read more