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Celebrity Lessons in Selling
What can Justin Bieber teach you about optimizing your sales strategy? Baby, ooh: quite a lot.
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7 Tips Your Business Can Learn From Oprah
Oprah's exit from TV is a good reminder for entrepreneurs on how to build a brand, attract top talent, and exit when the time is right.
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Building America’s Most Innovative Brands
Harvard's guru on outstanding American entrepreneurship analyzes the country's best brands, ponders the challenges of Groupon-era consumer empowerment, and explains why Oprah is a great boss.
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Will Gary Vaynerchuk Crush His Business?
Putting your personal brand ahead of your business brand has some major risks. Here, the founder of Vaynermedia defends the strategy.
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The Oprah Effect
After scoring a coveted spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show, these Inc. 500|5000 companies saw their sales skyrocket.
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Building a Successful Food Blog
With great recipes and a commitment to editorial integrity, Deb Perelman’s smittenkitchen.com has attracted a legion of fans. Here's how she did it. Read more
Oprah Uses Her Midas Touch on Chicago
Oprah's taping of her 24th season premiere brought crowds to businesses on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. Read more
Dealing With Complexity; The End of the Oprah Effect
A long goodbye to Oprah (and the Oprah Effect). It's official. Oprah Winfrey will announce to viewers on today's show that Read more
What It Takes to Get on Oprah's Radar
Everyone knows the power of Oprah. Her following and influence make her the number one target of publicists, brand managers, and marketers alike. Her auth... Read more
How to Get on Oprah
Writing on the blog Marketing Sherpa, a publicist named Susan Harrow of Harrow Communications in Oakland offers readers a list of do's and don'ts for gett... Read more
An Entrepreneurial King... and Kingmaker
The latest issue of Inc. features reporter Ryan McCarthy's round-up of the notable entrepreneurs who have died this year. The Read more
Top 10 Celebrity Entrepreneurs
Plenty of well-known people dabble in business. A smaller number are talented businesspeople, the real deal, and these are the best of them. Plus: Moby, Remi... Read more
Oprah Gets Psyched
How Oprah gets psyched for boardroom showdowns -- and other pearls overheard at the nation's top daylong conference of female execs. Read more
Uncovering the Road to Future Profits in 10 Steps
Winning Market Leadership by Adrian Ryans, Roger More, Donald Barclay, and Terry Deutscher John Wiley, 1999, 309 pag... Read more
Are You a David or a Goliath?
Small companies taking on big rivals. Plus, the art of the pivot, Hollywood smiles on Vita Coco, and the rest of the day's news. Read more
Would You Rather Be Bill Gates or Justin Timberlake?
Entrepreneurs from the 2009 Inc. 500 answer the question: If you could be anyone in the world, whom would you be? Read more
Great American Business Leaders
Harvard Business School's Great American Leaders database shares the names and stories of of individuals whose business acumen has shaped how people have ... Read more
Inc. Online Exclusives: November 2009
1.Pick the Greatest Entrepreneur of All Time Read more
CEOs of Fast-Growing Companies See Bright Future for Entrepreneurship
March 23, 2005 --The temperature in Tucson was high, as was the level of debate inside this year's 23rd annual Inc. 500 conference, where ... Read more
30 Days to a Better Blog; How to Handle Screw Ups
Steve Jobs returns to the stage . We were hoping he would, and he did. "I'm ... Read more
10 Tips for Handling a Media Blitz
Is there such thing as too much good press? Here's how to master your PR in a press onslaught and keep a positive business buzz going strong. Read more
That Certain Something: The World's Most Influential Entrepreneurs
We put the question to six experts: Who are the five most interesting entrepreneurs of the past 30 years? Read more
The 2009 Inc. 5000: A Window on the American Economy
The third annual Inc. 5000 shows impressive increases in the number of firms devoted to health care—and in those that cater to government. Read more
The Tax Man Cometh
IRS is keeping a close eye on entrepreneurs . With Tax Day looming, a quick warning that entrepreneurs might want to be Read more
Chris Brogan on Making Your Business Trustworthy
The author of Trust Agents and founder of New Marketing Labs talks about using the social web to build strong relationships and make your business v... Read more
7 Easy Steps to Bootstrapping Success
A guide on how to launch a start-up on the cheap. Read more
Don't Watch 60 Minutes
From command performances on Oprah to best-selling books to coffee-room chatter at work, The Secret has taken America by storm. But how ... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg Gives Newark an Education
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
Alter Egos
If you could be anyone else, who would it be? We helped eight uninhibited Inc. 500 CEOs act out their fantasies. Read more
The Ride of His Life
Robert Klick's fifth business wowed Oprah, bowled over Kelly Ripa, and put him cheek by jowl with Russell Crowe. Too bad this amazing celebrity run had to en... Read more
Thinking Inside the Box
Geraldine Laybourne of the Oxygen channel has finally discovered what women want -- perhaps to her chagrin, definitely to her profit. Read more
How to Keep Up With a Fast-Growing Company
Your company is growing—but are you growing along with it? Here are a few tips on keeping up with an expanding business. Read more
30 Under 30 2011: Product Slideshow
The young entrepreneurs on our 30 Under 30 list make and sell some of the coolest products we've seen. At the same time, they're making a global social impac... View slideshow
The Science of Status
Napa grapes or no-name grapes: There is news on the science of status and what it means to businesses. Read more
When It's Time Leave the (Home) Office
There are two kinds of entrepreneurs; those who like working at home, and those who don't. Here's how to know when it's time to go. Read more
Sales Strategy Checkup
How to make customers realize they need your product Read more
Thinking Inside theBox
Geraldine Laybourne of the Oxygen channel has finally discovered what women want -- perhaps to her chagrin, definitely to her profit. Read more
Believe Your Way to Success
When I ask entrepreneurs what success means to them, I get a variety of responses. To many, success means having the money and the freedom to enjoy what's... Read more
A Family Dynasty Fails, Vulture Investors, and Pirate Trouble
After 55 years, a billion-dollar family business files for bankruptcy. Martin and Matthew Bucksbaum, two brothers from Iowa, rose from local grocer... Read more
Apple Hype in a Gloomy World
What a difference a year and a scary recession make! While everyone is sweating bullets over just how bad retail sales will be this holiday season, I deci... Read more
Amazon's Kindle: I Don't Get It!
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Read more
What Does it Take?
A look behind the scenes at what it took to make it onto this year's list, and at some of the emerging trends it illuminates about young entrepreneurship today. Read more
I'll Take the Village
Airbnb announces super-sized vacation rentals for millionaires. Plus, Flipboard's big deal, the programmer shortage, and more of the day's news. Read more
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