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What Does Your Company Mean?

Robert Bradford, CEO of the Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, explains that what a company thinks its product line means to its customers and what cu...  Read story

The Great Leaders Series: Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

She brought multi-level marketing mainstream, turned employee recognition into a branding exercise, and spoke up for work-life balance.  Read story

The New You

Developing brand identity to distinguish your product or service.  Read story

Masters of the Ordinary

How four companies made the Inc. 500 by putting extraordinary thinking into building an ordinary business.  Read story

30 Great Entrepreneurs in Their Own Words

30 years of entrepreneurs speaking their minds  Read story

The Spirit Of Independence; Connections

"If anyone who hits the moon feels there hasn't been a lot of luck involved, in my opinion, they're either naive or lying." -- Jack Eckerd  Read story

Portfolio

The numbers don't tell it all. Behind every fast-growing company is a winning strategy and the person who devised it  Read story

Up From Drudgery

Are your best employees leaving to join competitors or to start their own companies? Stephen Reuning has a solution  Read story

A Cheerleader, Not A Quarterback

For a company to grow, a sales manager can't spend time managing sales; he should manage the people who make the sales.  Read story

Applicant of the Week: MonaVie

How this producer of health drinks has gotten the attention of celebs like Rachael Ray, and is saving the rainforest one acai berry at a time.  Read story

Inc. Online Exclusives July/August 2009, - Inc. Article

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Publicity: Write a Better Pitch Letter

Two of Inc.'s staff explain how to a write a publicity letter that will get an editor or writer's attention.  Read story

Three Marketing Lessons from the Love Bug

The folks from tech support have returned to their offices. After much intense effort, they have revived overburdened e-mail servers and rescued millions ...  Read story

Qa: Insider Trading

Mention insider trading" to a friend at a cocktail party, and he or she is likely to look around to be sure no one is listening in. The phrase conjures u...  Read story

Multilevel Marketing

In his book, According to Kotler , Paul Kotler defined this subject as follows: "Multilevel marketing (also called network marketing), describes s...  Read story

High On The Hog

In the end, they'll call it corporate vision. But to Don Beaver, it looks more like years of false starts, wrong turns, and belated inspiration.  Read story

The Sacred and the Mundane

Icons of business prove that the more things change, the more the important stuff remains the same.  Read story

How We Did It: Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel, Co-owners, Somers Licensing Cos.

Millions of women love and trust Suzanne Somers. That, as Somers and her husband, Alan Hamel, realized long ago, is the definition of a market niche, one the...  Read story

Unbridled Growth

For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi...  Read story

Greer vs. Nemeth

Why a haphazardly made venture capital deal may cost a successful entrepreneur her company.  Read story

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