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How to Advertise on Facebook

Here are 4 tips to make your ad stand out among the site's status updates, party photos, and comments.

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30 Tips for Using Social Media in Your Business

Wading into the fast-moving flow of social media can be daunting to a small business owner with very little time on his hands. Here's Inc.'s comprehensive social media cheat sheet for the time-strapped entrepreneur.

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Top 10 Awkward Social Media Moments

Inc. decided to rank the top 10 social media embarrassments of the year.

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30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs

The honorees on this year's 30 Under 30 list are perhaps our most dynamic group yet -- building successful companies online, overseas, and in the skies above us (literally). Meet America's coolest young entrepreneurs.

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The Next Big Ideas: Cool Products from America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs

Do you fantasize about doodling on your office walls? Want to host your own live TV show online? Are you craving truffle oil popcorn? The companies on this year's 30 Under 30 list might have just what you're looking for.

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Case Study Update: Selling a Successful Widget

Back to Business: A marketing gimmick became a hot side act for this software maker. Selling it meant the company could refocus and grow eve...  Read more

The Great Communicator

Mark Zuckerberg created a virtual town square for Generation Y. Is his business really worth $2 billion?  Read more

The Dumbest Products of 2007

What were they thinking?!?! In praise of retail stupidity.  Read more

Is Facebook Really Worth $15 Billion?

Maybe not. Microsoft's $240 million investment in the wildly popular social networking site is turning heads, but some insiders describe the valuation as "ri...  Read more

Facebook to Offer Classified Ads

U.K.-based software development company Fuzzle Media has released its latest application for Facebook, the social networking site that Microsoft (NASDAQ:M...  Read more

SuperPoke Recruiting

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

Facebook Gets Down to Business

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

Web 2.0 Attracting Small Firms

The number of small businesses using social networking is expected to double in the next year, a study finds.  Read more

Xbox Live Leaves Indie Developers in the Cold

Xbox will be even more socially connected, come autumn, but will smaller game developers be let in on the action? Probably not.  Read more

Your Websites: Age-Old Problems; New Age Solutions

How to get maximum impact.  Read more

Social Networks: Ready to Join the Party?

Marketing your small business on Facebook and MySpace.  Read more

Making Cents of Social Media Tools

Tired of new social media services that promise to bring customers to the door? Well, the truth is consumers are using social media to connect, and you might...  Read more

Essential Tools for the Solo Entrepreneur

One of the most important steps for solo entrepreneurs -- or solopreneurs -- to take is to build credibility on the Web. The following tools can help you do ...  Read more

Social Media for Business Sake

Social media has made it easier for us to connect with people on the basis of common business interests. It also now rivals search for driving online traffic...  Read more

The New Advertising Medium: Social Media

Social networking sites attract more and more users, but are they viable as an effective marketing platform?  Read more

Tech Trends that Challenge and (Sometimes) Disturb You

The widespread use of technology requires small business leaders to have more knowledge about how to use these tools -- and avoid their pitfalls -- than ever...  Read more

Harness the Power of Weak Ties to Weather the Downturn

Sometimes it's who you know, not who you know well, that can help you land a new job. Using the Internet can help you stay in touch with a lot of contacts at...  Read more

OurSpace: Create an In-House Social Network

Now that companies use social networking to connect with the outside world, more are bringing the same technology in-house. It doesn’t have to take a lot o...  Read more

Your Facebook Username = SEO Value

As Max has mentioned , Facebook is beginning their highly-anticipated launch of Read more

Facebook Demystified: Profiles and Pages and Groups (oh my)

Depending on what kind of "entity" you are, you have 3 choices for how to create a presence on Facebook. As I mentioned in Read more

8 Options to Quickly Build a Web Presence for your Startup

I constantly see small businesses who are using websites created for the owner in 1999, by his nephew who can’t or won’t update it, with inaccurate a...  Read more

Are you for real?

When we meet people in person, there are often clues as to the person’s identity, and sometimes there are real life tokens of identification. But when w...  Read more

What's Professional When It Comes to Social Media?

How much information is too much on the Web? What kind of information sharing is smart? And what is unprofessional? A month ago, I sat on a panel at Inc.'...  Read more

Will Generation Y Choose the Next President?

Remember when it was de rigueur to characterize Generation Y as apathetic and politically ignorant? Not anymore. 44 million of them (21% of the U.S. voti...  Read more

Social Networking for Business?

In last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Clive Thompson wrote a really interesting story called “Read more

Will Generation Y Choose the Next President?

Remember when it was de rigueur to characterize Generation Y as apathetic and politically ignorant? Not anymore. 44 million of them (21% of the U.S. voti...  Read more

Why Microsoft Friended Facebook

The blogosphere is abuzz with news that Microsoft picked up an equity stake in Facebook, which—in case you haven't picked up a newspaper, read a magazin...  Read more

Friends and Family? Try Facebook

On Monday, Facebook announced plans to invest as much as $10 million (in chunks of up to $250,000) in companies that are developing novel Facebook-related...  Read more

How to Save Money, and Avoiding Survivor's Guilt

After the layoff. A Time Magazine article reports on the dangers of ...  Read more

The Bonus Conundrum and Saving Money on Calls

Bad bonus? For a second day in a row, the business press is focusing on the $165 million in bonuses AIG paid to employees who helped bring the comp...  Read more

CEOs Favorite Tax Write-offs and Underlings Seek Revenge

Facebook and Twitter rot your brain? From the annals of everything fun is bad for you, a new study conducted by a neuroscience group from the Unive...  Read more

How to: Trade Private Stock, Diversify, Save a Project

5 warning signs your project is in danger. Web Worker Daily<...  Read more

Great Advisors, Facebook, and the Best Recession Blogs

How to assemble a board of advisors. Ever wanted the advice of a proven business veteran? At the Amex OPEN forum, John Marriotti, the president and...  Read more

How To Raise Money Quickly; The Millionaires of the App World

The $100 million Facebook app . There's been much debate of late about business plans based on Read more

Bloggers Beware and Twitter's Revenue Model

How America fell in love with green-topped rooster sauce. The New York Times looks into the origins of the now ubiquitous bottles of Huy Fong srira...  Read more

Credit Cards Forced to Play Nice and the Facebook IPO

The government has your back (unless you're a credit card company). Serious talks are underway within the Obama administration to set up a Read more

Facebook Gets Into Payments and How to Use Social Media

A new growth strategy for Facebook? Facebook is gearing up to test a new payment platform, according to Read more

Facebook Valuation, Google Vanity, and Tesla on Letterman

What's Facebook worth? Facebook is negotiating with investors as it tries to raise additional capital, the New York Post Read more

How to Innovate and an E-Book Upstart Scores

If you’re going to make a mess, make it a big one. That’s the lesson Seattle entrepreneur and angel investor Read more