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Learn What a Branding Campaign Is

The branding banner ad campaign is similar to a traditional print, radio, or TV campaign. The core concept behind a branding campaign is that if you put a...  Read story

Give Clients What They Really Want

Build real personal relationships with your clients--so they'll reveal to you what they really want, what could really drive their decision but can't be writ...  Read story

It's a Small World

Start-up develops a heating process used to make metal parts for cars more quickly and cheaply.  Read story

The Leader: A New Face For American Management, By Michael Maccoby. Simon Schuster, 1230 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10020; 288 Pp., $12.95.

Since the 1976 publication of The Gamesman, a study focusing on the personalities of managers of companies that create new technology, either Michael Macc...  Read story

A Misguided View Of American Industry

Has author Robert Reich ever met a real entrepreneur? This writer doesn't think so.  Read story

How to Navigate the Importing Seas

Valuable advice on importing.  Read story

One Man, One Computer, 1,431 Lawn Mowers

A garden-tool distributor rakes it in by carefully deciding what he needs to do himself -- and what he doesn't.  Read story

"good Leaders Aren't Perfect"

Author Michael Maccoby thinks we've had enough of old-style managers.  Read story

Docket: Supreme Court Cases on Business

Oct. 5, 2005 --Small business issues are scheduled to go before the Supreme Court this fall, just as two new justices are expected to join...  Read story

Watching You Watching

Seeing Machines' new product hopes to help us better understand how we interact with machines.  Read story

If At First You Don't Succeed

How my father tried to reconcile his big ideas with a small-minded world.  Read story

The Education of Harry Featherstone

How one CEO turned around a troubled company by setting up an ESOP, and by focusing on training and quality.  Read story

Quick Picks

Downtime distractions out this month.  Read story

Rutan-backed Flight Completes Global Voyage

March 8, 2005 -- Steve Fossett became the first solo pilot to complete a non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world last week, cloc...  Read story

What Business Is Amazon.com Really In?

With more than $550 million in losses over the past five years, how can Amazon.com seriously expect to become a viable retail business? Inc. offers ...  Read story

Why 20 Million of You Can't Be Wrong

A long-time Inc . contributor surveys the current entrepreneurial scene and reports his findings. How do things look? Well, one answer might be "Neve...  Read story

The Revolt Of The Capitalists

When the ruling Social Democrats proposed one tax too many, 100,000 Swedish businesspeople took to the streets in protest -- and that was just the beginning.  Read story

Darn Those Pop-Up Ads! They're Maddening, But Do They Work?

They create as much clutter as those slippery advertising inserts that fatten a Sunday newspaper and are as inescapable as humidity in August. But just ho...  Read story

The Little State That Could

Rhode Island thinks it can, it thinks it can, it thinks it can.  Read story

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to topics and issues featured in the February edition of Inc. magazine.  Read story

After 81 Years, Pirsch Sons Proves That Quality Pays

They make every fire engine by hand, says the founder's great-grandson, and that's why the company has been around longer than any other.  Read story

Born Again

Back in 1981, Chevrolet was making good things happen; Chrysler was holding the line on prices; and Ford had a better idea. But perhaps the best idea of a...  Read story

Linux Use on the Rise

March 2004 --Linux, the open-source operating system long popular with programmers, is being used by more U.S. companies and in more produ...  Read story

Buzz

A look at the elusive marketing concept commonly called "buzz." Here are some ways that buzz can be generated and the effects it has on a business or product.  Read story

Why 20 Million of You Can't Be Wrong

A long-time Inc . contributor surveys the current entrepreneurial scene and reports his findings. How do things look? Well, one answer might be "Neve...  Read story

China Inc.

Two Inc. writers look at China's new embrace of capitalism and its impact on the future of global economics.  Read story

The Smartest Franchisees in America

An in-depth look at a new wave of franchisees who are using their entrepreneurial smarts as true company builders.  Read story

At The Crossroads

After 10 years, Bill Wilson has discovered that the very traits that fed his early success no longer seem to work. He can no longer control every event in th...  Read story

Company Profile: The Missing Link

A close look at an educational software development firm and how they got their products to the national market.  Read story

The Start-up Factory

The story of how Bill Gross has channeled his creative zeal into a business that generates start-ups and why.  Read story

Basic Instincts

A look at a management appraoch that isn't science, but more a feel for trade and how it happens on the fly.  Read story

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