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Is Google Voice Ready for Prime Time?
The good: Powerful features, no cost at all. The bad: No support, occasional outages, no guarantee of future service. Here’s what you need to know about us... Read more
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The Best Guided Running Tours
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Network: January 1991
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The Inner City 100
100 street-smart companies. Read more
With Major Clients, a Site's Sales Take Off
How a business that resells used and unsold CDs and DVDs signed up Blockbuster and Best Buy. Read more
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 more
Giving Where It Counts
Do your customers really need another box of chocolates or corporate knickknack during the holidays? For years, General Engineering Laboratories, a consul... Read more
How I Did It: Mike Veeck
Midgets? Nuns who give massages? Disco Demolition Night? Free vasectomies on Father's Day? If there's one thing Mike Veeck learned from his father and from b... Read more
Outsourcery
In these days of furious consolidating, outsourcing is the way to go for both corporate giants and small outsourcers. Read more
Smart Questions for Your Travel Agent
As companies grow, they deploy more road warriors onto the battlefield and hire travel management companies (or TMCs) to help. Here's what to ask to make sur... Read more
Agenda 6/06
The first day of summer is June 21. May we suggest blending business with some fun in the sun? Read more
Reader Mail: June 2010
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National Minority Enterprise Development Week Kicks Off
The Minority Business Development Agency predicts the majority of small businesses to be minority-run in under 35 years. Read more
Case Study: An Indie Record Store Fights for Survival
To save their indie record store chain, the owners of Millennium Music decided to completely change it. Read more
10 Tips for Bootstrapping Your Marketing
When money's tight, your brand's image doesn't have to suffer. Read more
SCORE Recognizes Small Business Success at Annual Event
Program presents awards to five small businesses for tremendous achievements in various industries during a sluggish economy. Read more
Ask Kevin Ryan
Former CEO, DoubleClick Kevin Ryan was CEO of DoubleClick until it was acquired by a private equity firm, in 2005, for $1.1 bi... Read more
Have Headphones, Will Travel
The ubiquitous popularity of such portable tape players as the Sony Walkman offers an opportunity that entrepreneurs are beginning to take advantage of.Read more
How to Manage Your Own PR
Ten tips for running a successful public-relations campaign. Read more
The Weirdest Place to Find a Sales Lead
You should always be on the lookout for qualified sales leads. Even, apparently, in the ladies' room. Read more
The Q Factor
These days, a city's growth has less to do with lower costs than with the quality of its people and lifestyle Read more
For Small Accessory Makers, iPhone Mania Means Big Business
The iPhone's brisk sales thus far have been a boon to companies that make cases and adapters. Read more
Using Technology To Serve Customers
Inside salespeople, who traditionally have been responsible for taking orders, can now focus more and more on generating sales, because of a variety of ne... Read more
Four Companies Making iPhone Video Apps
The market for iPhone video apps is exploding. A look at some of the up-and-comers Read more
How to Diversify Your Customer Base
Every business wants to reach a broader audience. Here are five free strategies to diversify your audience and to expand your reach. Read more
The Truth About Start-ups
From cradle to grave, here are the facts about which businesses are most often started, survive, and prosper Read more
Despite Skeptics, Their Dream Is Bearing Fruit
During the 1950s, George and Catherine Mathiesen used to take their six children on picnics in the California wine country. Now the Mathiesens have their... Read more
How to Adapt Products for Different Markets
How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones. Read more
How to Assess the Credit Risk of Your Customers
Take these five steps to determine a potential client or customer's credit worthiness. Read more
How I Did It: Jeff Grady, President, Digital Lifestyle Outfitters
As told to Patrick J. Sauer Industry: Consumer Products 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: Read more
What's Next: Internet Phone Service is Here
Bad news for your phone company: Good, cheap Internet phone service is finally here. Read more
What's Next: Internet Phone Service is Here
Bad news for your phone company: Good, cheap Internet phone service is finally here. Read more
Off the Beaten Path
Forget the want ads. Other forms of advertising can pull, too. Ira Patton, CEO of Patton General Contracting, advertises forhelp on television. To recruit... Read more
Homes, Sweet Homes
Aluminum-siding salespeople take note -- the Promised Land may be in Albuquerque. That's where the number of housing starts is growing fastest, acco... Read more
The White House Conference Follies
Inc.'s editor in chief offers comments on readers' letters about the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business. Read more
Take Flight To Boost The Bottom Line
Many small companies are discovering the benefits of flying their own aircraft. Read more
CEO's Notebook
CEOs give advice on: selling stock on a European exchange, attracting new hires, protecting yourself from making bad investments, deducting Year 2000 bug rep... Read more
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