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Facebook's New Try at Wooing Small Businesses

By Howard Greenstein |  May 9, 2012

Hey, small-business owners: Facebook really, really wants you. It's making a special pitch, and teaching how to best buy ads, use offers, optimise the timeli...  Read more


New Social Media Strategy? 5 Questions to Ask First

By Jon Gelberg |  May 9, 2012

A fast and focused way to make sure you get the ROI you need.  Read more


How FUBU's Daymond John Does Guerrilla Marketing

By Inc. staff |  May 8, 2012

To build momentum for the FUBU clothing brand, Daymond John enlisted rapper LL Cool J.  Watch video


Best Online Marketing Trick? Go Offline

By Minda Zetlin |  May 8, 2012

An online dating service got more than 100,000 sign-ups using posters and fliers. Here's how they did it.  Read more


Best Industries 2012: E-commerce | 5 Online Retailers Cashing In

By Judith Ohikuare |  May 8, 2012

To succeed in online retail, a start-up needs a solid niche, to connect with itscustomers in a unique way. Here are five e-commerce companies that have marke...  View slideshow


5 Ways to Use Social Media At Conferences

By Eric V. Holtzclaw |  May 7, 2012

Before you attend your next conference, be sure you know how to use social media to get the most out of the conversation and connections.  Read more


6 Ways to Raise Your Klout Score

By John Brandon |  May 7, 2012

Just a silly social ranking system? Hardly. Here's why you should care about Klout--and how to get more of it.  Read more


Daily Trick to Kill Stress, Improve Health

By Jessica Stillman |  May 7, 2012

Forget two weeks on a tropical island: Try to just shut off this one program on your computer, for a remarkable change of heart rate and stress hormones.  Read more


Toss Out Your Social Media Metrics

By Marla Tabaka |  May 7, 2012

Fans, schmans! If you judge your business by its social media numbers your bottom-line may be suffering.  Read more


3 Ways to Create a Powerful Organic Growth Machine

By Vanessa Merit Nornberg |  May 4, 2012

Put your customers in control and you'll grow your business faster and more efficiently than ever before. Here's how.  Read more


Timing Your Launch: 4 Rules

By Erik Sherman |  May 3, 2012

The best ideas are worth nothing if you bring them to market too early or too late. Here's how to get the timing just right.  Read more


Set Up an Online Business in Hours

By Christina DesMarais |  May 3, 2012

Equipping a website to process credit card payments is hassle. Or it was, until Stripe and its 20-something founders came along.  Read more


Twitter Tips: 11 Things to Tweet When You Have Nothing to Say

By Hollis Thomases |  May 3, 2012

If those 140 characters seem daunting, here are a few things to think about.  Read more


Need Customer Service Help? There’s a Bot for That

By John Brandon |  May 3, 2012

Online customer service 24/7 can be hard to swing on a small business budget. But there is another solution.  Read more


Tech Bubble? Why It’s Different This Time

By Phil Simon |  May 3, 2012

There's no question that we're in a start-up boom. But the power dynamics look very different this time around.  Read more


Modcloth: Getting Customers to Design Their Own Clothes

By April Joyner |  May 3, 2012

It seems like a lofty goal, but bringing fashion-design to the masses is the mission of Eric Koger and Susan Gregg Koger, the founders of ModCloth, an online...  Read more


The Watch That Raised $8 Million on Kickstarter

By Andrew Maclean and John McDermott |  May 2, 2012

Eric Migicovsky created Pebble, a watch that syncs with Android or iPhone apps, and crowdfunded more money from ordinary individuals than any other Kickstart...  Watch video


How to Organize a Contest to Market Your Business

By Scott Gerber |  May 2, 2012

Tips from Susan Koger, co-founder of Modcloth, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.  Watch video


Presentation Inspiration: Prezi vs. PowerPoint

By Howard Greenstein |  May 2, 2012

When toy company Geared for Imagination needed a presentation for online, for at a trade show, and for internal training, it found Prezi, a fast-growing inte...  Read more


What CISPA Could Mean for Start-ups (and You)

By Christina DesMarais |  May 2, 2012

The proposed bill aims to fight cyber attacks by giving the government access to customer data. But at what cost?  Read more


Why Your Promo Video Stinks

By Kevin Daum |  May 2, 2012

Are your videos roaring or boring? Read these three tips for taking a basic failed video and making it a success.  Read more


3 Great Portable Projectors

By John Brandon |  May 2, 2012

Here are three portable projectors perfect for your next presentation.  Read more


Best Tools for an iPad Presentation

By J.J. McCorvey |  May 2, 2012

Need to nail a presentation? Here are a few tools you should know about.  Read more


4 Best Lightweight Laptops

By John Brandon |  May 2, 2012

Better, stronger, faster: Check out these second-gen laptops that are giving MacBook Air a run for its money.  Read more


You Lost Your Phone. Now What?

By John Brandon |  May 2, 2012

For most entrepreneurs, their phone is much more than just a phone. It's a lifeline. Here are tools for protecting and defending it.  Read more