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Simple Tips to Make Your Website Look More Credible

Credibility makes--and breaks--online businesses. Here's how a newcomer in a competitive industry can build trust with customers.  Read more

How to Do Social Media Right: 5 Tips

Three Inc. 5000 companies reveal real-life stories about how they've successfully tackled social media.  Read more

The New Rules of Viral Videos

They're getting longer and funnier--and they're barely recognizable as advertisements.  Read more

8 Ways to Improve Your 'About Us' Page

Chances are, it's one of the most-visited pages on your site. It's probably also the weakest. Here's how to fix it.  Read more

7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs

Whether you're just starting up or need a way to manage existing operations, these tools have you covered.  Read more

5 Steps to Building a Million-Dollar App

Author Chad Mureta explains all you need to know to make your app a success.  Read more

Study: Social Media Just Doesn't Sell

A new study finds just 1% of sales come through social sites. Are you spending too much time on making your brand look great on social media?  Read more

4 Secrets to Building an Online Community for Your Business

You don't need a storefront on Main Street to create a cozy community for your start-up; you can do it online. HootSuite's community manager explains.  Read more

4 Long-Lasting Smartphones

Don't get stuck with a fancy--but battery draining--device. Check out these handsets that are built to last.  Read more

Deeper Look: Tesla's Big Loan Fumble

Tesla and Fisker each faced a cash crunch with huge ramifications. Can electric automobile start-ups actually make it?  Read more

The Future of Your Commute

You can't work while you drive--yet. But new technology is evolving quickly and could make it happen soon.  Read more

Facebook Gifts: Shifting the Future of E-commerce?

The world's biggest social network is dipping its toe into retail, aiming to boost its revenue per user significantly. Here's how it will work, and why it'...  Read more

Entrepreneurs Behaving Badly

Sometimes customers do things that make you want to take extreme actions. But there's no good excuse for going this far.  Read more

'As Soon As the Site Is Down, Nothing Matters' 

Last year, hackers took down music distribution site SoundCloud for 36 hours. Co-founder Alex Ljung explains how SoundCloud responded to millions of infuriat...  Watch video

Get Customers to Read Emails: 7 Tricks

If you want prospective customers to open your emails, you need to pique their interest. Here are seven techniques that will make your emails stand out.  Read more

Inside the New Domain-Suffix Gold Rush

As great available URLs become rare, start-ups in particular are gravitating toward the domain suffix .co, and blazing a new trail in the process.  Read more

Future of Mobile Apps: 4 Predictions

More than 5,500 software developers were asked to look into their crystal balls. Here's what they saw.  Read more

It's Baaack: Myspace Plots Another Relaunch

If at first you don't succeed, redesign, redesign again. This time, it just might work.  Read more

3 Most Important Mobile Marketing Channels

Whether you have a mobile app or a mobile website, these channels can help your target audience find your mobile presence.  Read more

3 Ways to Deal With Disaster

Here's how a veteran entrepreneur keeps from going bonkers when absolutely everything seems to go wrong.  Read more

A Better Way to Work Technology Into Your Business

Technology is moving fast, and so should your company. Here's how to systematically instill a tech-savvy culture.  Read more

4 Easy-to-Use Tools for Building Websites

Get your business online in a flash using these simple services.  Read more

3 Killer Tools for Scheduling Shifts

These Web-based platforms take the hassle out of organizing employee shifts and vacations.  Read more

Survival Skills Every Entrepreneur Needs

Technology can make your job easier. But when something goes wrong, you need basic business instincts to back you up.  Read more

Why Apple's Maps Flap Could Make Your Life Harder

Don't think Apple's buggy new Maps app affects your business? Think again.  Read more

Dos and Don'ts of Working With Tech Talent

The CEO of a site that matches business owners with tech talent shares his tips on working well with with talented engineers and coders.  Read more

The Joys and Pains of Partnering With Apple

How one company learned to love working with Apple, despite its veil of secrecy.  Read more

The Way I Work: Jason Goldberg, Fab.com

In just two years, deal site Fab.com has reached $150 million in annual sales. But CEO Jason Goldberg tries to keep his team focused on why the company "sucks."  Read more

Four Great Space-Saving Printers

Compact all-in-ones with small footprints and big features.  Read more

Managing Your Agency: 4 Key Ways to Get What You Want

Hiring help with your digital marketing efforts? Start your relationship right by making sure you're in sync on these key points.  Read more

6 Reasons Businesses Still Love BlackBerrys

What iPhone 5? Despite the hype around iPhones and Android devices, many business users still swear by their BlackBerrys.  Read more

Quick! Get Apple a New Map--for Smart Crisis Control

A buggy product launch? That's familiar territory for most tech founders... but not for Apple. Here's how the company could have minimized the damage.  Read more

7 Celebrities Bitten by the Entrepreneurial Bug

They may have name recognition and capital... but success is hardly guaranteed. Here are seven stars who are angling to turn their passions into successful s...  View slideshow

You've Outgrown Your Marketing Plan. Now What?

Your ad hoc marketing plan may have worked to get your company where it is now, but chances are it won't drive your future success.  Read more

Want to Ride the iPhone 5 Wave? Get into Apple's Passbook

iPhone 5 customers will be able to store loyalty cards and coupons on their devices. Here's how to make sure they can access yours, too.  Read more