Franchisor's Fall
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Tech to Track Workers: Pros and Cons
A growing number of wireless technologies -- such as GPS and RFID – let businesses to track workers, deliveries of time-sensitive information, and even com... Read more
The Buddy System
While multilevel marketing may make you think of scam, many Inc. 500 companies find this approach indispensable. Read more
8 Things You Should Know Before Becoming a Direct Seller
The possibilities are limitless for enterprising individuals who can figure out the right product and the right company to choose. Read more
Network: November 1991
Network reader-to-reader advice. Read more
The Case for More (Not Less) Regulation
Plastics manufacturer Fred Keller has built a thriving, profitable, and highly celebrated business by embracing—rather than resisting—regulation. Read more
The Commission Conundrum
As companies try to increase sales while cutting costs, a popular trend has been to explore the use of commission-only sales staff. While this seems li... Read more
Fast-Sinking Star
After making the #1 spot on the 1996 Inc. 500, multilevel marketer Bill Gouldd slid and folded in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. Read more
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
Cheap Counsel
Profile and analysis of a start-up legal services firm. Read more
Fear Of Franchising
How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's' Read more
Unbridled Growth
For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi... Read more
Multilevel Marketing
In his book, According to Kotler , Paul Kotler defined this subject as follows: "Multilevel marketing (also called network marketing), describes s... Read more
There's a New Man in Town
Pressured by his venture capital backers, Gazooba founder Andrew Raskin makes room for a new CEO. Read more
Multilevel Mischief
CEO Brodsky recounts the experiences of a friend who went to work for a multilevel marketing company. He explains why very few people get rich from MLM ventu... Read more
Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year
A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year. Read more
Ordinary Business
What would happen, my colleague John Case wondered aloud, if you took the INC. 100 list and stripped off all the obvious hyper-growth companies? Say you clea... Read more
Hot Start-Ups
It's easy to forget that the best new business ideas are often the simplest. Here are 10 start-ups that will have you wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?" Read more
The 100-year-old Start-up
M. Jacob Sons was founded in 1882 . . . and 1921 . . . and 1963 . . . and again in 1982. Four times now, one generation has succeeded another, an... Read more
The Return Of Billy Jack
Tom Laughlin has set out to do for videocassettes what Amway did for household products and Domino's did for pizza Read more
Climbing Back Up
When the founders of X-It Products saw a billion-dollar rival imitate the design of their sole product, they didn't have much hope that their tiny start-up c... Read more
America's Fastest-growing Private Companies
By now, you are familiar with the backbone metaphor. As in: "Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. We must do everything we can'¦to make sure... Read more
Rating the Governors
With Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 other governors up for reelection, we look at who among them has earned the entrepreneurial vote. Read more
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