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Are Sales Costs Killing You Softly?

Chart of activities that affect sales productivity.  Read story

Portrait of a Telecommuter

The consulting firm the Gartner Group offers some averages about telcommuters as well as some predictions.  Read story

Benchmark: Where Marketing Dollars Go

Some data from a recent Gallup survey of 251 companies showing these companies' top direct-marketing tools.  Read story

Paper and Electronic Planning Made Easy

Nov. 3, 2006 -- MeadWestvaco, a Stamford, Conn.-based packaging company, today launched a line of new products engineered to simplify the...  Read story

Manuel Fernandez: My Biggest Mistake

Manuel Fernandez is the chairman and CEO of the Gartner Group, based in Stamford, Conn., a high-tech consulting firm that generated $511 million in re...  Read story

When The Grapevine Won't Do

Need to buy research? You can still cut the bill.  Read story

White-collar Rescue

Sometimes it is managers -- not the rank and file -- who need to be saved from the budget ax. Combustion Engineering Inc., a diversified manufacturer in ...  Read story

The Fax About Starting A New Business

Book review of The Republic of Tea: How an Idea Becomes a Business.  Read story

International: Cultural Differences

Chart: Survey of 1,157 executives in Europe asking what sales skills their sales representatives lack.  Read story

International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers

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

Benchmark: How Much Catalogs Cost

The results of a survey of 115 catalogers about the average production costs and earnings.  Read story

Taxing the Call of the Wild

Does Puma’s cat or Geico’s gecko deserve a royalty?  Read story

The Present, and Future, of VoIP

Is it a passing fad or is voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) here to stay? According to recent research, the technology is, and will remain, a viable opt...  Read story

Xerox Buys Small-Business Tech Retailer

Xerox is expanding into the small-business market with a $1.5 billion deal to buy a company that sells office technology products to small and midsize busine...  Read story

Mail: June 2003

Baseball, Brodsky, and bossocracy.  Read story

Cost Control;

With as many as 300,000 airfares changing daily, you're probably finding it difficult to enforce company policies on business travel. Well, there's hope ...  Read story

The Best Way to Combat Rising Postage Costs? Free Stamps

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read story

My employees want another holiday. What should I do?

Employees were asking Howard Meditz, president of Marquardt & Roche/Meditz & Hackett, a marketing agency in Stamford, Conn., for an additional paid ...  Read story

How Much Is Enough?

Chart of the number of catalogs sent to prospects before giving up.  Read story

Security for Bank Deposits

New insurance for bank deposits picks up where FDIC coverage leaves off.  Read story

Beware the Ailing PC Maker

A newsletter, 'The Gartner Letter,' tracks hardware vendors whose financial setbacks may lead to deteriorating quality.  Read story

Counting The Computers

Everyone knows the computer business is big, but nobody seems to know exactly how big or who has what piece of it. That is how the folks at the Comtec Mar...  Read story

Every Year, Thousands of People are Killed By Pathogens in Food.

William Hanson wants to help.  Read story

Financing Purchase Orders

Financing inventory by borrowing money against purchase orders.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the October 2000 issue of Inc.   Read story

Network: March 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

What About the Children?

This month it's mostly about values.  Read story

The Pc Crapshoot

"If you're a stockholder in the personal computer business, you've probably had your head handed to you by now," says Peter Wright, vice-president of Gart...  Read story

Goodbye and Good Luck

With employee turnover on the rise, getting the most out of exit interviews is more important than ever.  Read story

How Sales Goals Are Set

A survey asked companies how they set sales goals for sales executives and sales reps   Read story

The Walking Time Bomb

How to defuse an abusive business partner; making the decision to buy rather than rent.  Read story

With Legal Outcome Still Uncertain, BlackBerry Owners Weary

BlackBerry users were no doubt unnerved this week by a Supreme Court refusal to hear an ongoing case between the device's maker, Research in Motion, and N...  Read story

The Wrong Remedy

Perloff Bros. Inc., a Philadelphia-based wholesaler of Tartan Foods, wanted to expand and had found just the way to do it. A small wholesale grocer in ups...  Read story

Upstarts: Rookie Venture Capital

A look at how three businessmen with no venture capital experience started Redleaf Venture Management. Plus, several shorter articles about why so many green...  Read story

The HR Minefield: What You Should Know -- and Probably Don't -- about Employment Law

What you don't know can hurt you -- especially in court. Employment-related lawsuits are on the rise, as are the amounts awarded in compensatory and punit...  Read story

Quicker Liquor

A close-up look at how a liquor store is using IT and a World Wide Web site to increase sales.  Read story

Venture Capital;

For General Cluch Corp., the financing alternatives were limited. The Stamford, Conn., manufacturer, which was already selling stock privately and had bo...  Read story

TechnoFile: Identity Crisis

By now, you've heard that identity theft is among America's fastest-growing crimes , with nearly 10 million cases last year alone, and y...  Read story

Heading South

Northern California may still dominate the high-technology headlines, but in recent years southern California has begun to challenge the Bay Area as the n...  Read story