Avis Budget Group Inc.


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An Easier Way to Book Rental Cars

Too busy to search for the best car rental rates? Let AutoSlash do the work for you.  Read more

Redesigning A Travel Co.

Dychtwald on Avis: "Like lots of transportation companies, Avis thinks a cheaper price is the only thing that counts. Sometimes that's true, but not when...  Read more

The Lure and Danger of Big-Client Projects

It's every small-business owner's dream to land a big contract with a big corporation -- or is it? Three years ago, Leslie Saunders, president of L...  Read more

Adventures in Never NeverLost Land

Inc.'s Road Warrior abandons maps in favor of the NeverLost global positioning system available in Hertz rental cars.  Read more

A Boost for Business Travel

From slashing airfares to providing BlackBerrys, travel industry giants are giving business travelers reasons to want to hit the road. Reuters reported th...  Read more

Venture Capital in the 1990s

Interview with six prominent venture capitalists on the industry's future.  Read more

A Nation of Bloggers, Thought-Tweets, and Finding a Bank

Don't watch the stock market. Doomsaying economist Nouriel Roubini throws a bit of cold water on recent predictions of an imminent economic recover...  Read more

Black(berry) Wednesday

Que Horrible! The unthinkable happened last night. Blackberry's e-mail service provided by RIM (Research in Motion) went down about 8pm ...  Read more

5 Tips for Writing an Effective Slogan

A slogan is the most important advertisement a company can have. Follow these five tips and you'll have an excellent tagline in no time.  View slideshow

Business Education

Business education is a term that encompasses a number of methods used to teach students the fundamentals of business practices. These methods range from ...  Read more

1099 Reform: Where Do You Stand?

The rules governing 1099s are set to change in 2012, created a huge new burden in terms of small business record-keeping.  Read more

Budget Doubles Rewards For SMBs

Small and midsize businesses that use the Budget Rent-A-Car System will now be able to earn double cash-back rebates and quadruple Delta SkyMiles through ...  Read more

How to Hire a Business Development Director

The business development director plays a key role in growing your business. Here's how to hire for this important role.  Read more

Discount Phone Calls

Long-distance resellers provide long-distance services at cut rates.  Read more

MasterCard Launches Easy Savings for Small Firms

MasterCard small-business cardholders will be able to save money automatically on purchases made with credit and signature debit cards following the launc...  Read more

SBA Fraud; Facebook Surrenders; Obama, Obama, Obama

GAO alleges major fraud in SBA program. The Government Accountability Office says hundreds and possibly even thousands of businesses in the Histori...  Read more

No Experience Required

If you've got "a certain steel in the back," Alamo Rent A Car doesn't care where you worked before. Just as long as it wasn't Hertz or Avis.  Read more

Buying: Strength in Numbers

Sole proprietors have formed a group to achieve bulk-buyer cost reductions.  Read more

Student Powercard

A year and a half ago, Marc Leder was a junior in college wondering what he was going to do when he got out. The answer turned out to be Powercard/USA, a ...  Read more

Travel in Style, or Not

Finding a company travel service for every budget.  Read more

Wheeler-dealer's Rambling Wrecks Are Good Business

Why do stars like Paul Newman, Alan Alda, and Warren Beatty patronize a used-car rental business in West Los Angeles known as Rent-A-Wreck? "They know th...  Read more

Nothing But Green Skies

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is one of the nation's top family-owned businesses, a $12 billion behemoth that dominates its industry. But CEO Andy Taylor feared it a...  Read more

NextPhase to Resell Hughes Broadband Satellite

A larger pool of merchants will be offering automatic savings to small-business customers.  Read more

Going Carbon Neutral

It's easier than you think  Read more

Masters of Improvisation

The cofounders of Global Travel International rejected traditional travel-industry business models by designing their company to respond to change and opport...  Read more

In Memoriam

The notable entrepreneurs who died in 2007 helped to shape some of the major trends in business in the past 50 years, from the rise of socially responsible b...  Read more

War Economy: When Should You Attack Your Competition?

Are we living in an attack culture in America today? Sure seems so. With Fox News, Michael Moore, and the nuclear nature of political discourse in genera...  Read more

Be Careful What You Wish For

Silicon Valley companies thought an act of Congress would solve their problems with Bill Lerach and his shareholder lawsuits. But the reforms may end up back...  Read more

Where Really Bad Ideas Come From

Before starting the companies that made the 1998 Inc. 500, many CEOs pursued dubious business concepts that ultimately bombed. Here are the lessons ...  Read more

Profile: A Hot Property

Real-estate broker Barbara Corcoran went from waitressing at a diner to building a $70-million company.  Read more

Portland Plays Perception Poker

Can a thriving little city in Maine bluff its way into the ranks of big-time Internet players?  Read more

Bidding on Linux

It's cheap and it works. But can you run your company on Linux?  Read more

Bidding on Linux

It's cheap and it works. But can you run your company on Linux?  Read more

Thriller

This summer's best reads can be found on the business shelf  Read more

To Market, To Market

Procter Gamble veteran James McManus has an uncanny ability to analyze consumer behavior and parlay his findings into a variety of sucessful vent...  Read more

How Fast Can This Thing Go, Anyway?

Zipcar was a classic founder-run company--long on passion, short on cash. Until a new CEO came aboard, gave the business a seven-step tune-up, and put the pe...  Read more

Running the Gauntlet at Wal-Mart

The process of selling to the behemoth of Bentonville starts well before you push open the doors of its Arkansas headquarters. But it's within the fortress i...  Read more

Friday The 13th

The call came from IBM offering Martin Alpert a deal that could give his company a lock on its market. But he wasn't celebrating.  Read more