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Recent Sales Growth Articles

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

Halloween Haunts a 'Boo' -ming Business

The haunted attraction business is now nearly a $1 billion-a-year industry.  Read more

Letting Employees Battle It Out

College Hunks Hauling Junk uses sales contests to encourage rivalries and boost employee motivation  Read more

30 Under 30 2009 - Electronic Payments - Michael Nardy

Americans love their credit cards. And Michael Nardy helps process the transactions. To the tune of $34 million in revenue.  Read more

A Sales Force Built Around Cold Calling

To thrive in a recession, the sales force at iCore Networks focuses on cold calling  Read more

America's Fastest-Growing Private Company? It's in Insurance

When the big insurers exited the Florida market, a start-up saw an opportunity  Read more

Selling Quirky Products to Retailers

Mother Ink, maker of maternity tattoos, gets advice on retail displays and packaging  Read more

Finding Part-Time and Independent Sales Reps

Tips for filling part-time sales jobs  Read more

Inc. 500 Status is Just the Beginning 

Learn how nine firms increased revenue from an average $14 million to $800 million from the author of the best-selling The Breakthrough Company: How Every...  Watch video

My First Million-Dollar Account

Four entrepreneurs recall the big sale that changed it all.  Read more

Turning Browsers Into Buyers

How to improve conversion rates.  Read more

eBay 101 

Many entrepreneurs are making big money on eBay these days. Inc. Expert Barbara Weltman highlights everything you need to get started.   Watch video

Making a Sale from the Inc. 500 

For Adam Lowry, founder of Method, making a sale is about making the buyer have faith in you. For Tom Szaky of TerraCycle, it's all about getting them exc...  Watch video

Reverse Auctions: A Supplier's Survival Guide [Audio] 

Shouting matches. Heavy perspiration. Tequila shots. Is this the future of sales? Staff writer Max Chafkin explains.   Watch video

Hatching New Revenue Streams

How the maker of Marshmallow Peeps finally leveraged its intellectual property.  Read more

Everybody Sells

Your work force can become a secret weapon for closing sales.  Read more

The Master of the Soft Touch

Did you make your numbers this quarter? At Dan Weinfurter's company, that's the least important question.  Read more