Marketing;
Nothing can undermine your company's marketing efforts as quickly or as effectively as a poor telephone-answering system. That's particularly true if you... Read story
Akron
Back to the Future
Akron has revitalized its local economy with small companies operating in big markets. Read story
The 2007 Inner City 100 Profiles: 31-40
A Start-up Plans to Make Mines Safer
Can this workplace-safety company raise $1 million in seed capital? Read story
Say When
A company's founder discusses how he lost sight of his customers' satisfaction and almost went bust. Read story
The Inner City 100
100 street-smart companies. Read story
Hybrid Financing: Trying Out More Exotic Techniques
A CEO explains how he found offering short-term taxable bonds through his bank an attractive alternative to loans. Read story
Image Building
Creating a winning corporate image. Read story
No Babbling Brooks In Ohio's "polymer Valley"
Polymer Valley? While almost every state in the union is fighting to attract new computer and electronics companies, Ohio is looking elsewhere. Although i... Read story
The Inc. Network
Reader-to-reader advice. Read story
When Employees Share Stock Pain, Not Gain
More employees are sharing in company gains through stock option plans, but what happens when the pricedrops and it comes time to share the pain? M... Read story
A Golden Alternative
Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ... Read story
Kauffman Foundation Pledges $35 Million for College Programs
The grants will be used to help promote entrepreneurship education beyond business schools. Read story
You Can Get There from Here
Printing a map showing how to get to your store on the back of business cards. Read story
Ideas in Motion
Suggestions on where to place your suggestions box. Read story
The 500 Fastest-growing Private Companies In The U.s.
In an ailing economy, smaller businesses have become the pacesetters of the 1980s. Led by 100 companies that have chalked up sales gains of more than 1,100%,... Read story
License to Thrive
The right partnership can drive sales -- while reducing your workload. Read story
Plastics!
Entrepreneur starts business making mailbox posts, speed bumps, and picnic tables from recycled plastic. Read story
The American Way
Armed with traditional American values, modern immigrants refuel the entrepreneurial economy. Read story
Best Cities: The Lists
Here's Inc. magazine's 2000 list of the best metro areas, big and small, in which to start and grow your business. Read story
In Memoriam
They sold us surfboards and sports cars, Linux, chicken, Miracle-Gro, and vacations among the Eskimo. A fond look back at the remarkable entrepreneurs who di... Read story
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The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot... Read story
Network: February 1993
Network question and answers: Reader-to-reader advice on a variety of topics. Read story
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#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c... Read story
The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America
Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies. Read story
Going Bare
New ways to deal with the insurance crunch -- including doing without. Read story
Network: September 1990
Network reader-to-reader advice. Read story
Teams: Service Teams That Work
A program that uses teams of employees to tackle issues like marketing and quality. Read story
High Fliers
How corporate wings can give your marketing a lift. Read story
The 500
#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ... Read story
A Raise In Every Paycheck
Michael Dunaway found that a pay hike every two weeks motivated his workers more than the standard annual raise. Read story
The Take At The Top
How growing companies manage the care and feeding of their key executives Read story
The Spirit Of Independence; Workers
"In general it is impossible that manufactures should succeed in America from the high price of labour." -- Thomas Jefferson Read story
Desperation Capitalism
What do Clorox and Apple Computer have in common? Both were launched by bootstrappers-- and here are some other bootstrapping Hall of Famers. Read story
Are Your Staffers Stealing?
How to prevent employee theft and protect your bottom line. Read story
The Inner City 100 Profiles: 21-30
NO. 21 Intelliseek Cincinnati Blog analysis and research Read story
Top 25 Cities for Doing Business in America
If you're looking for cities large, medium, and small where job growth is robust and economies are strong, head to the ones on this year's Top Cities list. F... Read story
Look to Low-Cost and Niche Airlines for Low Fares
One of the best ways to get the lowest fares is to know where low-cost and niche airlines fly. These carriers allow you to create your own system of airfa... Read story
Hot Cities, Hot Sites
The cover story of the December 2000 issue of Inc. magazine, " Best Cities to Start and ... Read story
Meet Your Silent Partner
The National Small Business Association works hard and gets results. But a low profile keeps the group from getting the credit it deserves. Read story
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