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Recent Sales and Marketing Slideshows

Management Advice: What Kind of Boss Are You?

Check out these 11 archetypes, complete with signature strengths, weaknesses and role models.  View slideshow


Top 9 Brand Blunders of All Time

Branding can be a dangerous business, as evidenced by these particularly heinous mistakes.  View slideshow


Top 10 Sales Apps for the New iPad

These must-have apps for your new iPad (or even your old one) can help you outsell your competition.  View slideshow


11 Habits of Highly Ineffective Managers

These behaviors drive employees crazy and limit your own advancement. Here's how to avoid them.  View slideshow


Bad Boss? 7 Management Moves to Avoid

Don't be tempted to use these cheap tricks. There are better ways to handle employee challenges.  View slideshow


6 Ways Employees Manipulate You

Chances are, at least sometimes, your employees have you dancing on a string. Here's how they do it.  View slideshow


10 Difficult Employees (& How to Handle Them)

These workplace characters can create endless headaches if not managed well. Here's how to get them out of your hair.  View slideshow


Top 12 Social Media Blunders of 2011

From using protests in Egypt to promote clothing lines to a viral campaign video, we take a look at the worst social media blunders of 2011 and what you can ...  View slideshow


10 Surprising Brand Winners of 2011

Some corporate, personal and conceptual brands captured unexpected headwinds in 2011. Here are 10 of the best-known.  View slideshow


Top 10 Brand Disasters of 2011

The year 2011 was particularly rich in actions and events that clobbered established brand names. Here are 10 of the year's most heinous.  View slideshow


Networking Tips from the Inc. 5000

Want to be a power networker? We tapped 6 CEOs of the country’s fastest growing companies about how they’ve networked for success, and how you can too.  View slideshow


An Ad Maestro’s Greatest Hits

Stan Richards is the mastermind behind the biggest independently owned ad agency in the nation. We’ve gathered some of The Richards Group’s greatest hits...  View slideshow


Too Tasteless for Prime Time

These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? A...  View slideshow


Tweeted By the Stars

Looking for your 140 characters of fame? These 20 celebrities will tweet about you. For a price.  View slideshow


How to Make the Most of Your Moment in the Spotlight

In a media-saturated world, it's bound to happen. Here's what not to do when you're invited to appear on television, according to Dan Zaccagnino, co-founder ...  View slideshow


Four Steps to the Perfect Power Lunch

Julian Niccolini, co-owner of the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, has been in the restaurant business since 1977. Among his regular clients: Henry ...  View slideshow


6 Branding Ideas From Jay-Z and Kanye West

Jay-Z and Kanye West released one of the most anticipated albums on the year, Watch the Throne . They were able to leverage paid, earned, and owned a...  View slideshow


7 Must-Have Apps for Salespeople

Whether you need to log sales calls or keep track of business cards, there's an app to make it easier to get out of the office and into the field.  View slideshow


Celebrity Lessons in Selling

What can Justin Bieber teach you about optimizing your sales strategy? Baby, ooh: quite a lot.  View slideshow


Recovering From a Blow to Your Brand's Reputation

These 10 brands attempted, some more successfully than others, to bounce back from potentially game-ending disasters. Here's what you can learn from them.  View slideshow