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Dick Sabot: My Biggest Mistake

By Mike Hofman |  Dec 1, 2000

Dick Sabot is the cofounder and chairman of the board of eZiba.com and Tripod, and a director of Lycos Inc. He recounts the tale of his biggest an...  Read story

Types of Search Engines

By Fredrick Marckini |  Apr 24, 2000

Key to improving your Web site's rank in the different search engines is to understand the basic criteria by which search engines index and then retrieve ...  Read story

CEO's Notebook

By Various Inc Staff |  Dec 1, 2000

Read short, practical articles about topics such as insurance for your e-business, a major change in patent law, and what to do if your flight is canceled.  Read story

Find Affiliate Programs Related to Your Product or Service

By Jennifer LeClaire |  Dec 20, 1999

There are thousands of affiliate programs to choose from, but like so many other things on the Web, locating the right program for you can be difficult. T...  Read story

Lucky or Smart

By Bo Peabody |  Jan 1, 2005

There's a formula for creating good fortune in business. Here's how one entrepreneur came upon it.  Read story

Traffic Will Make You Rich: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Sales, not traffic, are what's needed to create profit for a Web site, according to the experts.  Read story

Building a Web Site Is Easy: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

E-commerce experts discuss the technical hardships a business can suffer when trying to create a customer-friendly Web site.  Read story

Wild Ads Make Web Stars: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Ad campaigns for dot-coms should explain what the business does in order to be effective, say industry observers.  Read story

Smart Money Makes You Smart: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

E-commerce experts weigh in on the importance of finding smart investors.  Read story

Brand Is Everything: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

E-commerce experts discuss why having a good brand does not necessarily generate sales on the Internet.  Read story

Community, Community, Community: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Not every company needs to build an online community, say Web observers.  Read story

Razzle-Dazzle Makes Web Sites Great: The Word from the Experts

By Various Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 2000

Bells and whistles can hinder a more important aspect of Web sites ? speed.  Read story

Search Engines

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The Business Portal

By Thomas Koulopoulos |  May 4, 2000

In my last column I talked about the importance of vertical portals (vortals) in creating...  Read story

Why Your Web Site's Rank Matters

By Fredrick Marckini |  Feb 3, 2000

There's a pervasive myth among Web site marketers that simply submitting your Web site to hundreds or thousands of search engines will increase traffic to...  Read story

Don't Quit Your Day Job

By Lora Kolodny |  Mar 1, 2004

How to launch your start-up--without losing your day job.  Read story

The Little Engines That Could

Oct 13, 1999

When managers want business information, many now routinely look on the Internet. They use search engines like Alta Vis...  Read story

Metatags, Newsgroups Help to Recruit on the Web

Oct 1, 1999

There are currently about 5 million resumes online in career sites, resume banks and job boards. But there aretens of millions of passive candidates who h...  Read story

Smog Lifters

By Shane McLaughlin |  Jan 1, 1999

There are people out there who are even more information deluged than you are. Eleven of the smartest--and most beleaguered--reveal their personal regimens f...  Read story

Index

By Inc Staff |  Oct 1, 1997

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the October issue of Inc.  Read story

Hey Web-ster, What's an FAQ?

Jan 1, 1999

If you're about to tackle the Internet, you should know these key terms and tools: Browser: A software package that allows you to access t...  Read story

In Memoriam

By Darren Dahl |  Dec 1, 2005

They sold us surfboards and sports cars, Linux, chicken, Miracle-Gro, and vacations among the Eskimo. A fond look back at the remarkable entrepreneurs who di...  Read story

Marketing a Low-Budget Service Site

By Nicole Bishop |  Apr 26, 2001

You have a Web site for your service business. You have a max of $1,000 a month to spend on marketing. What do you do? The objective ...  Read story

The Inside Scoop

By Phaedra Hise |  Sep 15, 1996

An expert in conducting business in cyberspace explains how an in-house Web server may be the way to cyberprosperity.  Read story

Wi-Fi for the Masses

By Martha Baer |  Jul 1, 2006

Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it--one city at a time.  Read story

Advertising Media—Internet

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Buh-Bye, Bell?

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Mar 15, 2001

Beema, Inc., a multimedia production house, found that it could save money by using Internet telephony rather than the traditional telecoms. But will it work...  Read story

Getting Smart On-Line

By Phaedra Hise |  Mar 15, 1996

Several small companies are examined to see how they are mining the Internet for business intelligence.  Read story

Marketing: Double Exposure

By Sarah Schafer |  Jun 15, 1996

An overview of how a plastics manufacturer is using the World Wide Web to boost regional and international sales.  Read story

Found in the Crowd

By Karen Southwick |  Sep 15, 1998

An increasing number of large companies are using the Internet for comparative shopping and to find new suppliers. Here are some of the best places to list y...  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: Conjunction Junction

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

Compaero makes its connectors a cinch to buy while expanding its customer base.  Read story

Surfer's Paradise

By Russ Baker |  Nov 1, 1997

A beginner's guide to using the Internet. Includes tips for finding useful information, definitions to common terms, and suggested sites.  Read story

It Takes a Cybervillage

By Joshua D. Macht |  Dec 15, 1997

An overview of three cities, Pittsburgh, Boulder, and Montreal, that experts believe could be hot spots for new-media industries.  Read story

Why Disney and ATT Went Astray in Dot-comland

May 14, 2001

Newspaper headlines are filled with reports describing the demise of dot-com firms. The rapid reversal of fortunes, however, has not been limited to pure-...  Read story

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