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Recent Sales Growth Articles

Who's Taking on Ticketmaster?

Ticketmaster, which recently merged with Live Nation, dominates the multibillion-dollar ticketing industry. But these companies are looking to steal the show.  Read more

How to Sell Like a Fighter Pilot

A former fighter pilot explains how to use military discipline to increase your sales figures.  Read more

7 Retail Trends That Can Boost Your Business

The U.S. Retail Highlights report is in and lists several trends that your business can use to stay on top.  Read more

Need a Revenue Boost? Try This Simple Formula

An easy way to break down your revenue goals into specific, actionable items.  Read more

Score Your First Big Account

To grow, your business needs to reel in the big fish. Here's how I transformed my tiny business into one of the best-known PR firms in the United States.  Read more

10 Questions That Create Success

Want help focusing on what really matters? Ask yourself these on a daily basis.  Read more

How She Got Spanx on Oprah 

The steps Sara Blakely took to land her girdles on Oprah and, ultimately, built the Spanx brand.  Watch video

Client Meetings: 4 Smart Rules for When You're Face to Face

The next time you have a chance, pull a client aside and ask specific questions related to how you're doing.  Read more

Smarter Sales: 2 Hours Is All You Need

Business owners: For better sales efforts, do each of these 30-minute tasks just once a week--but do them every week.  Read more

Holiday Madness: Are You Ready to Take On the Big Guys?

Can't do doorbusters or sweeping discounts? Brooklyn Industries's Lexy Funk explains small-retail's tricks for profiting big this shopping season.  Read more

Can You Close the Biggest Deals?

Fact: Selling techniques that work in the consumer realm won't work in the business world. Here's why B2B sales are so darn hard to close.  Read more

The 5 Worst Closing Techniques

Make sure you're not guilty of using these out-dated (and completely useless) methods for closing a big deal.  Read more

Top 5 Ways Big Accounts Screw With Small Vendors

Don't let big buyers turn your business into a doormat. Keep your eye out for these common threats.  Read more

5 Ways to Keep Your Biggest Customer

Before you slash prices, check out these strategies for keeping your best customers happy and loyal.  Read more

3 Dumbest Sales Job Interview Questions... and What to Ask Instead

Need a stronger sales team? When you've got a potential hire in the hot seat, make sure you're asking the right questions.  Read more

How to Get Your Product Into Big Box Stores

Do you dream of seeing your products line the shelves at big box stores or major retailers? Many start-ups and inventors struggle with achieving this dream, ...  Read more

Norm Brodsky on Dealing With Picky Customers

What should you do when customers insist on working only with you?  Read more

Elevator Pitch: Verbling

Can you say $1 million? A language-learning start-up is hoping that investors can.  Read more

When to Change Your Business Model

If a competitor offers its product for free, should you do the same in hopes of increasing market share?  Read more

Elevator Pitch: Take the Interview

This HR start-up makes it easy to screen job candidates. Can it raise $1.25 million?  Read more

How to Break Into the Big-Box Big Leagues

Do you ever wonder how all those products end up on the shelves of your favorite retailer? Here are some case studies of small businesses who cracked the code.  Read more

Why I Don’t Use MySpace

MySpace has admitted to claims of Read more

The Entrepreneur's Wish List

Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more

3 Secrets of Successful Sales Quotas

There's something I've learned in the last 10 years as President of a growing small business that you probably won't hear el...  Read more

How to Manage a Sales Pipeline

Building and managing a sales pipeline can be critical to a small business's success.  Read more

How to Set Up a Mystery Shopping Program

Implementing the right tools to measure customer experience can help your business improve sales, operations, and profits.  Read more

Mark Zuckerberg Gives Newark an Education

Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more

An Ad Man Who Had a Very Good Year

Entrepreneur John Most describes how his ad agency quadrupled in size between 2008 and 2009.  Read more

How to Find Your First Customer

Your first paying customer is always the hardest to get but also the most exciting to acquire.  Read more

How to Handle a Spike in Sales

As the economy improves, company owners face a new challenge: How to handle a spike in sales.  Read more

GrowCo.: 5 Sales Myths of Fast Growth Organizations

I'm listening intently at this GrowCo. session to Tom Searcy, founder of Hunt Big Sales , and co-aut...  Read more

What's a Fair Sales Quota in 2010?

What's a reasonable sales quota in 2010? SurePayroll president Michael Alter talks about how to make sales compensation fair and motivational even in a weak ...  Read more

How to Find New Customers and Increase Sales

How to better understand your target audience, generate new sales leads, and focusing on getting more revenue from existing clientele.  Read more

Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?

I always thought that expanding my business at a steady pace was a smart move. Now I worry that it could potentially kill us  Read more

How to Start Selling Internationally

Advice for business owners on researching foreign markets, putting together an export plan, and finding salespeople overseas.  Read more