Internet and Online Business


Recent Internet and Online Business Articles

Safe Passage

By Alan Joch |  Dec 15, 1997

How to make financial transactions secure on your Web site. A look at the technology, registering with certification authorities, and digital cash as an alte...  Read more

Data Duty

By Dan Caulfield |  Dec 15, 1997

The founder of Hire Quality recounts how he turned his business around by learning to manage information instead of people.  Read more

Have It Your Way

By Sarah Schafer |  Dec 15, 1997

Mass customization is a popular trend in the business-to-business arena. Read how manufacturing and communications technology have allowed small companies to...  Read more

Surfer's Paradise

By Russ Baker |  Nov 1, 1997

A beginner's guide to using the Internet. Includes tips for finding useful information, definitions to common terms, and suggested sites.  Read more

A Meeting of Minds

By William R. Pape |  Sep 15, 1997

How to run a virtual meeting that will treat all participants as if they were in the same room.  Read more

The Right Stuff

By Bob Bruce |  Sep 15, 1997

A business owner reviews a software package that helps search the Internet for information without getting junk.  Read more

Moving Presentations

By Judith Nitsch |  Sep 15, 1997

The president of a civil engineering firm reviews an animation software package.  Read more

Good Cheap Data

By Susan Greco |  Aug 1, 1997

Here's how you can build a powerful marketing database at bargain-basement prices.  Read more

Group Insurance

By William R. Pape |  Jun 15, 1997

A former CIO explains how virtual teams can quickly gather information for even your most far-flung staffers.  Read more

Grand Illusions

By Moe Meyerson |  Jun 15, 1997

A middle manager's lighthearted look at why intranets are great for sharing inaccurate information.  Read more

Good Vibrations

By Alex Palermo |  Jun 15, 1997

An online psychic explains how he is using technology to predict the future, talk with the dead, and track customers.  Read more

Online 101: Intranets

By Phaedra Hise |  Apr 28, 1997

Not all successful Web sites are actually on the Web. Large companies with many different office locations have for some time been using ...  Read more

Make Room for Data

By Cary Lu |  Mar 15, 1997

Inc. 's former technology editor examines some solutions to the problem the Internet faces from overloaded phone lines.  Read more

Fax-Finding Mission

By Sarah Schafer |  Mar 15, 1997

Looking to save money on long-distance faxing? You might want to try the Internet. The fax-service provider FaxSav<...  Read more

Block Buster

By Sarah Schafer |  Mar 15, 1997

Worried about how your employees spend their time online? Just make sure you look before you leap onto the blocking-software bandwagon. Some of the...  Read more

Online 101: Finding a Web Site Designer

By Phaedra Hise |  Jan 24, 1997

So you've decided you need a Web site. Perhaps your competitors are already online and making you nervous. Maybe a large customer has asked for Web intera...  Read more

Host Your Own Web Site

Jan 1, 1997

Before you start to design your Web site, you should decide whether you will store it in-house or with an Internet service provider (ISP). Serving a Web s...  Read more

Let Your Clients Do the Talking

Jan 1, 1997

The start of a client relationship is the riskiest phase, according to Dana Hutchins, president and creative director of Image Works, a multimedia product...  Read more

Should Netscape Control the Web

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Dec 15, 1996

This article details the problems that users may face as companies stuggle to control the Web browser industry.  Read more

Scoring on the Net

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Dec 15, 1996

Inc. magazine's editor-at-large explains how he hit a home run while shopping on-line.  Read more

Nothing But Net

By Edward O. Welles |  Dec 1, 1996

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com Corp. and inventor of Ethernet, talks with Inc. about the Internet.  Read more

The Online Sleuth: Market Research via the Web

By Susan Greco |  Nov 12, 1996

Today, more and more businesspeople are researchingmarkets from the comfort of their keyboards. "It's not unusual for a client tocome to me and say, 'I've...  Read more

Benchmark: International on the Internet

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Oct 1, 1996

Some data suggesting how small businesses are using the Internet.  Read more

Novel Ties

By David H. Freedman |  Sep 15, 1996

Inc. Technology's editor offers an overview of the issue.  Read more

In the Beginning Was the Word

By Sarah Schafer |  Sep 15, 1996

A quick review of Web-search software for the World Wide Web.  Read more

Supercharging the Internet

By Cary Lu |  Sep 15, 1996

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Group Think

By Anne Field |  Sep 15, 1996

A look at how groupware allows small-company employees to work simultaneously, saving both time and money.  Read more

The Inside Scoop

By Phaedra Hise |  Sep 15, 1996

An expert in conducting business in cyberspace explains how an in-house Web server may be the way to cyberprosperity.  Read more

On-Line: Building the Price-Wise Web Site

By Phaedra Hise |  Sep 1, 1996

Don't overspend on the World Wide Web  Read more

Cybermarketing: On-line Chic -- A Web-Page Makeover

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Jul 1, 1996

A look at how a fashion designer evolved its Web site through a hit-or-miss approach and what it has learned.  Read more

Will Your Web Page Fly in Japan?

By Sarah Schafer |  Jun 15, 1996

A CEO explains why you need his company to create a successful Web page to do business in Japan.  Read more

Companies with Web Sites

By Inc. staff |  Jun 15, 1996

Some data showing the percentages of companies using Web sites and what benefits they get from the Internet.  Read more

Oh, What a Tangled Web

By Moe Meyerson |  Jun 15, 1996

A light-hearted look at what might happen if you market your fabulous product on the Internet.  Read more

Small Town, Big Connections

By David Goodman |  Jun 15, 1996

A look at how community networking gives rural businesses a chance to play in the big leagues.  Read more

What Makes Virtual Vineyards Rule?

By Fred Hapgood |  Jun 15, 1996

The story of how a Bay Area wine maven and a software expert started selling wine on the World Wide Web.  Read more