Making of a Start-up Video
You have cash and you have employees. What comes next? For many start-ups, it's the promo video. Here's a look at how one start-up did it. View slideshow
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Gift Inspiration From Small Businesses
The founders of jewelry start-up Altruette know what a difference the holidays make for small business. Here are some of their favorite products from start-u... View slideshow
7 Worst Tweets of 2012
This year businesses fouled up when they posted these egregious, insulting tweets. Don't make these social media mistakes. View slideshow
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
The Best Social CRM Programs
New Social CRM software is being developed everyday. We asked an expert which one you should use now. View slideshow
4 Cool Help Desk Tools
It's no secret that part of your help desk and customer support strategy can be handled more efficiently using programs and web-based software. With so many ... View slideshow
7 Great Viral Marketing Campaigns
They're weird. They're funny. And they're incredibly powerful marketing tools. Here are seven campaigns that caught fire online, going wildly viral. View slideshow
Move Over, Mary Kay
There's a new guard of companies selling using the tricks of the direct-selling trade. Today, it's J. Hilburn, Stella & Dot, Ambit Energy, and even Zumba, ro... View slideshow
5 Characteristics of Great Company Names
Before settling on a name, consider these five traits that all great company names share. View slideshow
How 5 Unheard of Products Rocked the Market
Roomba. Vapur. Oona. These products share more than peculiar names. Each is an innovation that used effective marketing strategies to turn a brand new produc... View slideshow
8 Tips for Effective Social Blogging
Here’s how to use social blogging, a combination of microblogs (short posts) and status updates, to increase your visibility, improve your search engine re... View slideshow
