Peoria

Pulling in Profits

New RSS software makes it easier to gather intelligence on clients and competitors.  Read more

Pulling in Profits

New RSS software makes it easier to gather intelligence on clients and competitors.  Read more

Tourist Traps;

WOULD YOU GO TO PEORIA TO see people play mud volleyball? The state of Illinois thinks you might. It advertised the contest as part of its $10-million ca...  Read more

The Q Factor

These days, a city's growth has less to do with lower costs than with the quality of its people and lifestyle  Read more

Payday

Four sites to turn to when you want to benchmark your salary structure.  Read more

Payday

Four sites to turn to when you want to benchmark your salary structure.  Read more

Charter is Cheaper

Company saves clients money by chartering planes for them.  Read more

Trade-Show Mistakes -- And How to Avoid Them

Sure, business is gravitating to the Web. But face time is still crucial in the sales world, making trade shows an integral part of any growing company's ...  Read more

This Start-Up is "Auntie" Establishment

When the entire market focuses on one niche, and you choose another, you're either a bold innovator, or a failure. Henry Ford's quote about building cars ...  Read more

Put Your Policies in Writing

1. See the Big Picture The tradeoff at the center of any employment manual pits consistency against flexibility. Codifying policies and then foll...  Read more

Perks And The Tax Collector

"The income tax," said Will Rogers, "has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make out a tax form on the level, you don...  Read more

Hot Spots

INC.'s annual ranking of America's cities  Read more

The British Connection

For U.S. small businesspeople, the problems and progress of our English counterparts should be more than a matter of idle curiosity.  Read more

Honorable Mention: The $2.6 Billion Men

In 2002, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis launched Skype, a free Internet phone service. In September, they sold it--for a sum that still has Wall Street and...  Read more

Small Ideas Are Big Hits

Company rewards all employees who submit suggestions, whether they are implemented or not.  Read more

The Best Small Companies to Work for

Profile of the best small companies to work for and their secrets to building a great workplace.  Read more

HOW THE CITIES WERE RANKED Like our annual states report, this ranking of metropolitan areas is based on three factors: job generation, rate of significan...  Read more

Book Review: ...And Dignity for All

... And Dignity For All by James Despain and Jane Bodman Converse Financial Times Prentice Hall 198 pages $19.95<...  Read more

Tips for Offering a Toll-Free Number

How to decide if your business should have an 800-number.  Read more

Does Charter Pay? You Decide

Comparisons of three major airlines and a charter service on three trips, based on number of days required and cost.  Read more

News from the Front

Four months after a former CEO went to work in the Commerce Dept., he quit. Here's his opinion on Washington now.  Read more

How To: Grow a Product-Based Business

Advice on how to develop a business around a product idea.  Read more

The 1988 Inc. 500

Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

Small Business

Profile of a small bank where limited growth allows the company to focus on customer service and employee morale.  Read more

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies.  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more

What's Going To Happen In '82?

INC. asked hundreds of business people what they think this year will be like.  Read more

Hot Spots

Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed.  Read more