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A Year of Working Successfully

The best promotional pieces are the ones that meet several sales and marketing objectives at once--like Munton's. For more than 40 years, this British pro...  Read story

The Learning Executive

A leading management guru tells why you need to put learning objectives before performance.  Read story

In This Issue

This month's letter from the editor.  Read story

Join the Club

Think you're too young to sell overseas? You're probably not. Many fast-growing small companies are going global. A poll ofcompanies on the 1993 Inc. 500 ...  Read story

Export: One Call Answers All

Source of information on foreign exporting.  Read story

Learn A Language Over The Phone

Don Schrickel, a Chicago businessman whose work often takes him to South America, is learning Spanish -- over the telephone. Three times a week, Schricke...  Read story

International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers

An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size.  Read story

Emerging Markets: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Staying Sane, Safe, and Profitable

We at Kemin have been doing business internationally for more than three decades. A few years after our founding in 1961, a Chinese graduate student at Co...  Read story

First-Class Export Help

SBA program pairs business schools with small companies so students learn while counseling the companies.  Read story

A Birth Legend We Love

Inc.'s executive editor tells both the official and unofficial story of why Bernie Goldhirsh decided to launch our small-business magazine 20 years ago.  Read story

This Woman Has Changed Business Forever

The Body Shop mixes business with a devotion to social causes, inspiring both employees and customers.  Read story

Letters

Readers react to articles from the March 1999 issue of Inc., including Jill Andresky Fraser's "How to Finance Anything," Harriet Rubin's "Solo Diaries," and ...  Read story

Meals on Wheels (and Rails and Water)

Paul Robbins looked at a run-down Florida neighborhood and beheld a transportation utopia. The story of this year's #1 Inner City 100 company.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Andrew Cull, Remote Medical International

Why Andrew Cull, founder of Remote Medical International, counts a rescue knife, a flashlight, and a bunch of chickens among his favorite things  Read story

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - John Bicket and Sanjit Biswas, Meraki

#22 John Bicket #23 Sanjit Biswas Meraki Age: 28 (Bicket) and 26 (Bi...  Read story

Foreign Affairs

Collecting delinquent foreign accounts is no easy task it requires determination and, in some cases the help of lawyers and professional bill collectors.  Read story

Who's Going Global?

Chart showing numbers of Inc. 500 exporters doing business in specific countries.  Read story

Entrepreneur Profile: Terminalmarkets.com

From Wall Street stockbroker to vegetable importer to Internet entrepreneur, Sinan Talgat has trusted where his serendipitous career would lead. ...  Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Read story

Fast-Growing Companies Creating More Jobs

Oct. 19, 2005 --Today's most successful small and mid-size companies are also engines of job growth, this year's Inc. 500 ranking shows.Read story

Rent a Phone, Lose a Headache

Here's how the CEO of Virtuoso Travel cuts through the tangled web of overlapping cellular networks around the world.  Read story

The Shipping Blues

Nestled in a farmhouse overlooking a cornfield in Yardley, Penn., Joe Pfender and his 10 employees at Cargo Express couldn't feel farther removed from the...  Read story

Finding Salespeople Abroad

Locating top performers in the global economy.  Read story

Case Study Update: Outside the Big Box

When we wrote about Lance Fried in April 2005, the CEO of San Diego-based Freestyle Audio was thinking about turning down a tempting offer from several big-b...  Read story

Cutting Costs When Staying in Other Countries

Most consolidators and hotel discount directories cover international as well as domestic locations. You may want to collect several directories to optimi...  Read story

Green 2.0

Think the green movement was just a fad? From tire recycling to biodegradable packing peanuts, these entrepreneurs have turned sustainability into sustainabl...  Read story

Private Lives

Microcomputers, welding equipment, wheelcharis, prefabricated churches, and five other businesses earned their companies a spot on this year's INC. 500.  Read story

The Ties That Bound

This story looks at the long history of long distance networking, a concept that predates the Greeks.  Read story

Foreign Power

One of Inc.'s editors tells a cautionary tale of what might go wrong when you take your laptop overseas.  Read story

Living Like Indiana

He's only a fictional character, but Indiana Jones has the kind of existence many of us envy. By day, he's a respected intellectual, but after hours, he p...  Read story

Case Study Update: Eyeing Global Clients

In May 2004 , Iridian Technologies, a Moorestown, New Jersey, company, was facing a Faustian...  Read story

Applicant of the Week: Technical Consumer Products

Ellis Yan was creating those more efficient spiral light bulbs way before 'green' was a buzzword.  Read story

CEO Passions: Gold Prospecting

Randy Garrett, CEO of Mainline Contracting, Pans for Gold -- But He's Not in It for the Money  Read story

Mystery Shopping

Mystery shopping is a term that describes a field-based research technique of using independent auditors posing as customers to gather information about p...  Read story

Travel: Now boarding: the JetBlue of Bangalore

Discount airlines have become an international hit. We list who is flying.  Read story

The Recyclers

Most people see refuse. These entrepreneurs see raw materials.  Read story

Attack of the $35 Gucci Handbag

Knockoffs may seem like a cheap-and-easy way to outfit your wardrobe with the top luxury brands. But all those counterfeit Louis Vuitton purses and Dolce & G...  Read story

Split Cities: A Travel Secret for Maximum Savings

Save as much as 70% and avoid the financial trauma of one airline's route monopoly by splitting your ticketing in half and buying two tickets: one to an i...  Read story

Global Business

Related Terms: Globalization Global business refer...  Read story