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Best Buy Gets The Tweetment

Here it is; yet another cautionary tale illustrating that there is absolutely no margin of error when it comes to your company's online presence. ...  Read more

Employees Fired for Pursuing Alleged Shoplifter

Should your company policy prohibit an employee from preventing crime?  Read more

Nothing Makes the Skies Friendly Like a Free Plane Ticket

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Best Buy Targets Business Owners

Best Buy will be rolling out a line of products with features designed for business use, the Richfield, Minn.-based electronics retail chain said this wee...  Read more

Taking Aim

Comparison-shopping software lets businesses target potential customers when they're browsing for products on the sites of competitors. Here's how it works.  Read more

The Weekly Deal: Save on Hard Drives and Flash Drives

Just how bad are retail sales these days? For the answer, you could look at Read more

The Best Of Both Worlds

Performance, low cost. These funds offer a compelling blend of good performance (on a risk-adjusted basis) and low cost (in annual overhead and s...  Read more

Finally, a Useful Bluetooth Headset

I'd tried bluetooth headsets and earbuds over the years, always with disappointing results. Nobody could hear me, it was hard to connect it to my ph...  Read more

A $99 iPhone and Other Great Deals

When I tell people how much I love my new portable video camera, they always ask, "Is it the Flip?" No, I say, it's the Kodak Zi6. It's a bit heftier than...  Read more

What's For Launch?

Do you hear that big collective gasp (no exhaling yet!)? That's the Apple faithful. This week opens with opening day at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conf...  Read more

Toshiba Laptop for $300

Thanks to Brad's Deals for pointing this out: Best Buy is selling the 15.4" Toshiba L305-S5955 Satellite Laptop for only $299.99. It has a 2.2GHz Intel Ce...  Read more

Circuit City: A Real Loss For Small Businesses

The liquidation sales are in full swing after last week's announcement that Circuit City is closing all of its doors. That's 567 stores nationwide if you ...  Read more

The Retail Blues

I've been talking recently with the owner of two women's boutique stores outside of Atlanta. She's been on a very solid track for a number of years, even ...  Read more

CompUSA Targets Small-Business Market

CompUSA, the Dallas-based electronics retail chain, is refocusing its retail efforts to better serve small-business owners, company officials said Tuesday...  Read more

Online Retail: Getting the Right Product in Front of Your Customers

A few technologies that impact online retail have recently gained wider adoption, and will help consumers find the right products online more easily in the c...  Read more

Dubai’s Meltdown; The Biz Behind This Year's Hottest Toy

Meltdown in Dubai? The boom that put indoor ski slopes in the desert and man-made islands in the Persian Gulf looks to be coming to an end. Over th...  Read more

Hiring Your Own Don Draper; Improving Your Online Rep

How much does it cost to hire real life Mad Men . As much as $964 an hour, according to Advertising Age, which Read more

Cheapo Laptop Wars

Best Buy should know better than to get in a bare knuckle mano-a-mano price war with Wal-Mart. That's like getting into a hairspray competition with a new...  Read more

Best Buy and Ingram Micro to Offer Expanded Onsite IT Service

Best Buy (NYSE:BBY)  and Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM)  have teamed up to offer small and midsize businesses across North America onsite IT consulting ...  Read more

Focused Bets

Just because sector funds are something of a crapshoot is no reason to ignore cost comparisons. Shop wisely. Of the eight sector groups tracked b...  Read more

The Weekly Deal: Netbooks and More

In times like these, who isn't interested in buying a netbook? Not only are they cheap, but they're ultra-portable and pretty darn cute. Since ch...  Read more

How To Track Prices on Amazon

It's tough to find good deals online, because any savvy Web retailer will tell that you're getting a bargain whether it's true or not. It sometimes seems ...  Read more

Netbooks Under $200

Don't believe the hype: the recession isn't over yet. That means there are still a lot of great deals out there on gadgets and gear including netbooks, HP...  Read more

Where to Buy Computers

Finding a bargain on computers and equipment for the office means knowing the ins and outs of online and offline retailers.  Read more

Best Buy Canada Offers Data Deposit Box Storage

Geek Squad will deliver secure online data storage and sharing services.  Read more

Speakeasy Expands VoIP Offering

Speakeasy, a Best Buy company (NYSE:BBY), has added two new digital voice options to its suite of VoIP services for the small-business market. Speakeasy's...  Read more

The Lowly Co-op Gets a Makeover

Minnesota's unique start-up boom.  Read more

An Entrepreneur's Holiday Wish List

Technological gadgets may lead the list of presents a small business owner would like to receive this season.  Read more

Case Study

The Problem: Handmark had 50% of the market for software for PDAs. Unfortunately, fewer people are buying PDAs  Read more

Case Study

The Problem: Handmark had 50% of the market for software for PDAs. Unfortunately, fewer people are buying PDAs  Read more

Speakeasy Broadens Customer Broadband Options

Users can now choose broadband providers with any of Speakeasy's voice services.  Read more

07.12.2011 | Inc.com Daily

Turntable.fm heats up, American unemployment rates, Foursquare rolls out new daily deals, and more.  Read more

Can a Vacation Policy of No Policy be a Good Employee Policy?

It sounds like a dream, a company with a vacation or paid time off (PTO) policy that doesn't restrict or enforce any rules around the number off days an e...  Read more

How to Adapt Products for Different Markets

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones.  Read more

The Recyclers

Most people see refuse. These entrepreneurs see raw materials.  Read more

How to Extend Your Laptop's Life

You tote your laptop throughout your daily life and beat it up. But the laptop's portability makes it vulnerable to wear and tear. Here's how to extend the l...  Read more

How to Break Into the Big-Box Big Leagues

Do you ever wonder how all those products end up on the shelves of your favorite retailer? Here are some case studies of small businesses who cracked the code.  Read more

Best Buy Acquires Inc. 500 Broadband Firm

April 10, 2007 -- Speakeasy, a Seattle-based broadband firm that launched over a decade ago as one of the nation's first Internet Cafes, ...  Read more

Mail

I'm With Jack I read the revealing interview with Jack Stack ["Read more

The Sub-$1000 Home Office

Not including tax and title, of course! Seriously, I remember about 12-13 years ago when the sub-$1000 price point for a desktop PC was all the r...  Read more