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Cyberbutlers Serve Road Warriors' Needs

I was recently made aware of a new service being offered by several of themajor international hotel chains. Previously, I had used various butler services...  Read story

Loves Me, Loves Me Not

While everyone may know that being the boss is no popularity contest, one CEO explains how that affects her.  Read story

Global Etiquette Training

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

Lease Is More

Travelers find more space, more charm, and less expensive rates when they check into an apartment instead of a hotel.  Read story

My Place: Sandy Chilewich's Showcase in the Sky, New York City

Finally Sandy Chilewich has the perfect showcase for her contemporary home goods.  Read story

Dossier

Answer the call of Shangri-la; go virtual at the Waldorf-Astoria; or work out in the privacy of your hotel room with your own "fit kit."  Read story

By Special Arrangement

Flowers are a perennial business gift. But how do you find the best and brightest blooms?  Read story

Oh, the places we go!

Where do fellow Inc. readers go to get away? Glad you asked.  Read story

Hire the Best

There's never been a better time to attract senior talent to your growing company. Here's how to recruit highly skilled employees as you never could before.  Read story

Hiring Committee Measures Candidates for Cultural Fit

At AGA Catalog Marketing and Design, a team of employees handpicked by the president interviews alllevels of applicants from the mailroom clerk to the chi...  Read story

Communications;

You are away on a business trip and need a document from your home office. Overnight mail won't help: you need it right away. Although ZapMail is no...  Read story

Far and Away

When employees have been very, very good, send them to one of these fabulous destination resorts.  Read story

The Informers

Profile of a company where the culture is strengthened by fostering internal communications.  Read story

The Squash Blossom Solution

At the high, high end of the market, the Jones family of Huron, Ohio, outruns the economics of modern farming.  Read story

Packaging: When It's Time for a Makeover

Partners from a gourmet-biscuit company explain how and why they pursued a new design for packaging their products.  Read story

The Wiring of the Green

High-tech golf course management and marketing systems combined to make these profiled links among the best.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Dominique Schurman

CEO of Schurman Fine Papers, which makes greeting cards, gift bags, note cards, wrapping paper, and journals and sells them through its Papyrus stores and ot...  Read story

Leisure Pursuits

Why marketers are increasingly trying to reach people on vacation.  Read story

What's in a Name?

Is your company's brand name doing everything it could? Here's how to get the name you deserve.  Read story

Whose Brand Is It, Anyway?

Terri Williamson did a textbook job of launching Glow. Jennifer Lopez and her team did a textbook job of launching Glow by J.Lo. And then their worlds collided.  Read story

The Art of the Huddle

How to run a prompt, productive, and painless morning meeting.  Read story

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 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

The Road to One-to-One Marketing

A close-up look at how a concierge service is successfully using one-to-one marketing, and what this appraoch involves.  Read story

Breaking Away

The CEO of a spin-off discusses the opportunities and dangers of spinning off a business from a major parent company.  Read story

Mighty Leaf is a Darling of Upscale Restaurants and Natural-Food Stores

Should its creators sell their luxe tea in the cutthroat world of supermarkets?  Read story

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business.  Read story

Company Profile: The Missing Link

A close look at an educational software development firm and how they got their products to the national market.  Read story

Out of Business

A top-notch CEO discovered that some innovation could only happen after he left the company he founded.  Read story

Without You I'm Nothing

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 story

A Brand Is Born

In just under a decade, Viewpoint International Inc., a retailer of clothing, accessories, and home furnishings, has built the Tommy Bahama product line into...  Read story

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