Reference-checking Tips
Advice on checking a candidate's references. Read story
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Customer Loyalty Marketing Tool
March 14, 2007 -- Leadwav, a Sacramento, Calif.-based targeted-marketing firm, has launched a new application to help small businesses re... Read story
Rebel with a Cause
How a body shop became its market leader by using radio attacks aimed at the car-insurance industry. 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
Quick Tickets
Business launches a network of automated teller machines that deliver airline tickets. Read story
How I Did It: Vickie Stringer, CEO Triple Crown Publications
Redemption doesn't come easy. Read story
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Having a hard time competing with all the perks that well-heeled companies seem to throw around? Here's a benefit with no out-of-pocket costs that will thril... Read story
Should Norm Sell? The Readers Have Spoken
By better than a five-to-one ratio, readers who wrote in think Norm should sell. Here's what some of them had to say: Read story
Managing People;
Employee absenteeism costs companies millions of dollars every year in lost productivity and/or increased overtime costs, but ask a manager to quantify th... Read story
Winnebago Take All
Keith Stevens, CEO of Team 2000 Staffing Services, tells his managers to go out and find workers instead of waiting for them to come in. 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
Highlights from Our Annual Inc. 500 Conference
Editor-in-chief George Gendron's thoughts on the Inc. 500 companies. Read story
The Complete Guide to E-mail
E-mail is--well, yes, it's your excuse for carrying a BlackBerry. But it's also the essential business tool. A complete guide to keeping your system... Read story
Back To Basics
The high-tech boom went bust, and investors started looking for managers with proven track records, and flocking to companies like Roto-Rooter and OshKosh Bh... Read story
Corrections
In "Back to Basics" (February), the chart titled "The Changing Industry Mix: 1983 and 1985" should have been credited to Securities Data Co., New York Cit... Read story
If You Come, They Will Build It
Have a great product idea but lack the resources to develop it? Here's how inventors-for-hire can take your brilliant germ of an idea and transform it into a... Read story
Boosting Small Business
Overcoming an antibusiness bias The idea of states cutting red tape for development permits and business licenses is nothing new, but Oregon has add... Read story
Assets And Liabilities
For the CEO of a fast-growth company, yesterday's strength may be today's weakness. Read story
Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year
A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year. Read story
Companies Greet E-Mail Nation
Examples of companies who use E-Mail to handle customer requests. Read story
Network: February 1991
Network resources. Read story
The 2007 Inner City 100 Profiles: 61-70
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Ask Inc.
Finding contacts in China, getting meaningful reviews of the boss. Read story
Pitching the Right Stuff
Pointers on making presentations to venture capitalists. Read story
Index
A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the August 1999 issue. Read story
Marketing Research Vs. The Marketing Mind
While marketing-research firms are struggling to create products aimed at smaller companies, such sophisticated research as Information Resources Inc.'s B... Read story
Somebody Is Still Buying De Loreans
The past two years have been far more auspicious for the gull-winged De Lorean cars than they have been for the entrepreneur who brought them to the publi... Read story
The Cash-flow Crunch
Big firms are dragging their feet on payables, taking as long as 60 days to settle up, and creating new problems for entrepreneurs. Read story
The Decade-Long Overnight Success
The turnaround EOY for 1994: A close-up look at a one company's struggle to return to former glory. Read story
John Mackey of Whole Foods on Hiring Leaders
He used to be impressed by people who were articulate. Not anymore. Read story
The King of Perks
One technique for keeping people is offering great perks, and Gary Quick, president and CEO of Quick Solutions Inc., in Columbus, Ohio, was the Perk King ... Read story
Why Don't Your Kids Want To Be Entrepreneurs?
Freedom! Independence! The dream of being on one's own! That's the American ethic, nurtured by tales of hardy immigrants who took their lives into their... Read story
Five Surefire Tips for Great Speeches
Come out punching! Grab your audience's attention. One way is to make a startling statement. Fora recent speech to th... Read story
Marketing;
Ten years into the personal-computer age, the promise of massmarket electronic selling has remained just that -- a promise. Electronic shopping services,... Read story
Global-Assistance Start-Ups
A list of four firms which provide assistance and information to companies interested in trading overseas. Read story
Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100
Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit... Read story
Life in the 'Fishbowl'
Author of a book on public offerings discusses the type of information that must be disclosed during a public offering. Read story
How Can I Save Money on Radio Advertising?
"I buy my radio advertising when the price is right: there are times you can practically steal it," says Bob Juniper Jr., CEO of two-time Inc. 50... Read story
Keeping Fit
While most businesses are trying to control health insurance costs, some companies are spending more on employee health programs than ever before. Read story
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