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Tom King, CEO of Jo's Candies, sells almost exclusively to huge companies like Starbucks and Borders. He offers four rules for doing business with giants who... Read more
Nordstrom Inc.
Recent Articles about Nordstrom Inc.
When Your Corporate Story Becomes " Old Shoe"
Defining moments of a business become the bedrock of corporate lore and help shape a firm's culture, motivate employees, personify the company vision, and... Read more
Basic Instincts
A look at a management appraoch that isn't science, but more a feel for trade and how it happens on the fly. Read more
Ahead Of The Pack
Secrets of Selling to the Home Read more
How to Translate Your Brand into an Image
A brand starts with a message about why your company is valuable. The message should communicate this value clearly and consistently. The message s... Read more
Leadership: Building Companies to Last
A study of companies that shows certain traits in visionary companies suggest basic rules for success. Read more
How to Deliver Great Customer Service
Follow these 10 tips, and your customers will be very, very happy. Read more
Change of Scenery Boosts Special Product
The Problem: A good product in anailing market. Marc Shuman, president of a family business launched by his dad roughly four decad... Read more
Masters of the Ordinary
How four companies made the Inc. 500 by putting extraordinary thinking into building an ordinary business. Read more
The Grandmother of Invention
Like millions of women, Lisa Gable was often frustrated by falling bra straps. So, at age 70, she designed a solution and launched an intimate apparel compan... Read more
Book Review: Companies Are People, Too
Companies Are People, Too by Sandra Fekete with LeeAnna Keith John Wiley & Sons 254 pages $29.95 ... Read more
Hatching New Revenue Streams
How the maker of Marshmallow Peeps finally leveraged its intellectual property. Read more
Small Business/Large Business Relationships
Many small business owners see large businesses exclusively in competitive terms. For small enterprises that compete directly with larger companies, this ... Read more
In a Cash Crunch?
Venture merchant banks help bridge the capital gap by financing a variety of trade activities. Read more
Merchant Prince Stanley Marcus
One of retailing's great impresarios thinks he knows who's to blame for the lost arts of salesmanship and merchandising -- it's the retailers themselves Read more
The Real Cost of Customer Service
Profile of an automotive services business where fanatical attention to customer service allows for huge margins. Read more
Silicon Valley Smackdown
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:<... Read more
The Entrepreneur of the Year Register
Profiles of recognition-worthy entrepreneurs from the 1993 Entrepreneur of the Year contest. Read more
The Zappos Way of Managing
How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation, stellar customer service, and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut -- and one of the m... Read more
Graniterock Comes Out Ahead with Short Pay
Imagine that every invoice you issued carried the following message: If you are not satisfied with any item on this bill for any reason,don't p... Read more
Changing Your Brand? Think Carefully
Branding 101 tells you to develop your brand through repetition, consistency, and fulfillment. But markets change: New competitors arrive, customer expect... Read more
When Bad Loans Happen to Good Entrepreneurs
In 1986, my soon-to-be business partner and I discovered a remarkable treasure: eight million antique mother-of-pearl buttons, the remaining inventories o... Read more
Pick a Legal Location and Avoid Zoning Trouble
Legally speaking, it's far less important whether a certain spot is a good one for your business than if it'sproperly zoned for what you plan to do. The f... Read more
Building a Brand
Branding isn't just a logo that you slap on or a fancy ad campaign. Your brand is a reflection of your business's personality. Read more
Mr. Smooth
New, from the man who brought you Armor All, a billion-dollar industry that will change the way you live! Read more
Hard To Swallow
If Tom Peters has all the right prescriptions, why aren't we following them? Read more
On The Cheap
Stripped of the gaudy language, market research is just information, and information is everywhere. For free. Read more
Image Building
Creating a winning corporate image. Read more
The Change Masters
Profile of how Granite Rock Company stays ahead of the competition. Read more
Ongoing Sales Rewards
Customized rewards to motivate sales forces. Read more
Quality with Tears
Profile of the rapid growth growing pains of an industrial hardware components distributor. Read more
What Makes a Company Great?
Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview and review of J. Collins and J. Porras's book 'Built to Last.' Read more
Face to Face
Advice on how small companies can compete against big-company competitors. Read more
In the Customer's Shoes
Profile of a CEO who rebuilt his men's shoe store by listening to his customers. Read more
Hot Spots: A Field Guide to Your Local Economy
Some signs to look for suggesting a community's vitality and opportunity, and those signaling economic collapse. Read more
Delivering the Goods
Here's a look at how shipping automation will let you move freight fast, underbudget, and with precision. Read more
Upstarts: Start-up Mambos to Beat of Booming Market
With the Latino population in this country on the rise, can an English-language magazine for Latinas make it? Read more
No Experience Required
By surrounding herself with experts, can this business owner write a success story with her obscure tea drink? Read more
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