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Get a Google Pay-Per-Click Monopoly for Your Brand

By Matthew Swyers |  Jan 5, 2012

Use Google's General Trademark Complaint Form to stop competitors from infringing on your brands online.  Read more

Get Your Team on the Same Page

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Jan 5, 2012

If your strategy’s off track, complete this four-step process to put your business back on a growth path.  Read more

5 Tricks from a LinkedIn Jedi

By Eric Markowitz |  Jan 4, 2012

The man who wrote the book on LinkedIn shares his secrets to becoming an expert social networker.  Read more

Your Value Model is Dead. Now What?

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Jan 4, 2012

A dead or dying value model can take your company down with it. Here's how one company came back from the brink.  Read more

Best Way to Make Customers Forget Your Screw Up

By Andy Levine |  Jan 4, 2012

Look for opportunities to show your customers the lengths to which you will go to deliver on your promise.  Read more

7 Ways to Eat Better and Be More Successful In Business

By Greg Koch |  Jan 4, 2012

Want a competitive edge in the new year? Start with how you fuel yourself.  Read more

Build a Fast-Growing Company on a Bootstrap Budget

By Kevin Bailey |  Jan 4, 2012

Inc. 500 honoree Slingshot SEO experienced 3,597 percent growth in just three years. Here one of the founders explains how they did it with only $10,000 and ...  Read more

6 Marketing New Year’s Resolutions for 2012

By Janine Popick |  Jan 3, 2012

The new year means new opportunities to grow your business bigger, better and faster. Get started with these six resolutions.  Read more

Lesson from the U.S. Postal Service

By Matthew Swyers |  Jan 3, 2012

What can you learn from the fate of USPS? That your business must evolve or face extinction.  Read more

How to Silence Negative Employees

By Glen Blickenstaff |  Dec 29, 2011

To turn a failing company into a breakout success, you'll need to inspire positive, creative thinking from your team.  Read more

How Do You Define Customer Value?

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Dec 29, 2011

Business owners sound off about determining customer value.  Read more

How Google Uses the Keystone Strategy to Stay on Top

By Aaron Aders |  Dec 28, 2011

Understanding the business ecosystem of search platforms such as Google will give brands greater understanding of the role they play in this business network.  Read more

5 Steps to Creating More Customer Value

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Dec 28, 2011

By focusing efforts on your best customers, you can increase customer value and grow your business.  Read more

Tips on Social Media in 2012 

By Andrew Maclean |  Dec 27, 2011

What you need to know about word-of-mouth marketing in the new year, according to Dave Kerpen, founder of Likeable Media, and author of Likeable Social M...  Watch video

Keeping Morale High When Salaries Aren’t

By Michael Waas Smith |  Dec 27, 2011

Building a stable team is critical to building success. Here's how to inspire morale and loyalty when you can’t compensate competitively.  Read more

The Real Value of Your Business

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Dec 27, 2011

Measures like Price-Earnings Ratio and EBITDA multiples are just gross generalizations of the value of your business. Here's how to determine the real value.  Read more

Why You Should Work Smarter, And Harder

By Matthew Swyers |  Dec 26, 2011

These books that lead you to believe that you can achieve success by simply working smarter and not harder are lying.  Read more

4 Steps for Calculating Customer Value

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Dec 26, 2011

Understanding customer value is by far the most important factor when looking for ways to grow your business.  Read more

Are Your Customers Tuning You Out?

By Greg Koch |  Dec 23, 2011

Is your communication too noisy? Here's how to reduce it and get your audience to hear you.  Read more

How to Weed Out Apathetic Employees

By Glen Blickenstaff |  Dec 22, 2011

Turnaround specialist Glen Blickenstaff, in a five-part series of articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he reve...  Read more

The 2:00 A.M. Test for Hiring

By Matthew Swyers |  Dec 22, 2011

How better to judge loyalty than by seeing which of your employees would come to your aid at two in the morning.  Read more

How to Become an Agent for Change

By Abram Brown |  Dec 22, 2011

Few leaders know how to manage change at their company. Learn how to become one of the few.  Read more

Entrepreneurs that Got Filthy Rich in 2011

By Eric Markowitz |  Dec 21, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only entrepreneur good at making bank. Here’s a look at the 9 entrepreneurs and (and one investor) that got filthy, stupid, abs...  View slideshow

Why You Need a Keystone Strategy

By Aaron Aders |  Dec 21, 2011

Understanding the strategy adopted by the world’s largest businesses will help you gain a competitive edge.  Read more

Carbonite's CEO Talks About Going Public 

Dec 20, 2011

David Friend, chairman and CEO of Carbonite, an Inc. 500 company, discusses how he got ready and squeezed into the IPO window in August.  Watch video

New Year's Resolutions: Grow Fast in 2012

By April Joyner |  Dec 20, 2011

One thing all these Inc. 500 CEOs agree on: faster growth. But each has a different resolution on how to grow at break-neck speeds in 2012.  View slideshow

Vistaprint Acquires Webs for $117 Million

By Courtney Rubin |  Dec 20, 2011

Three brothers founded Webs, which ranked on the Inc. 5000 in 2009 after experiencing 177 percent growth.  Read more

3 Steps to Energize Your Business Performance

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Dec 20, 2011

You’re ready to start investing again in growth initiatives but your management team is at odds over what to do next. Building a value model will help trai...  Read more

Anyone in Your Company Can Have a Great Idea – Harness It!

By Janine Popick |  Dec 20, 2011

Your "on the street" employees can be an important resource for business-building ideas.  Read more

This One Mistake Can Eat Your Business Alive

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Dec 19, 2011

P&L targets are supposed to help a company create more value. But used incorrectly, they can erode business value and consume growth opportunities from the i...  Read more

The Trademark Dilemma

By Matthew Swyers |  Dec 19, 2011

Is it better to coin a new name that no one has ever heard or to use a descriptive name? It all depends on what you hope to achieve.  Read more

Stop Overpaying for Acquisitions

By Karl Stark and Bill Stewart |  Dec 16, 2011

You want to grow your business but buying your growth may not be the best strategy.  Read more

VerticalResponse Acquires Roost

By Courtney Rubin |  Dec 16, 2011

The Inc. 5000 company bought Roost to help make it easier for small businesses to engage in social media marketing.  Read more

Best Problem-Solving Tip: Don’t Be Afraid to Break Stuff

By Chris Mittelstaedt |  Dec 16, 2011

There are lots of tools designed to help you come up with innovative solutions. But sometimes the best one is a sledgehammer.  Read more

4 Critical Traits of an Entrepreneur

By Glen Blickenstaff |  Dec 15, 2011

You may be a risk-taker, goal-oriented, and ambitious but only these four traits will help take you to the next level.  Read more