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Press release of the month. A behind-the-scenes account of journalism's splashiest start-up in recent years -- Gannett Co.'s USA Today -- might make temp... Read more
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It's just not that difficult!
I'm not that different from millions of other knowledge workers around the world: I sit at my desk every day and send out emails, make phone calls, create... Read more
The Dynamics of Downsizing
Many employers utilize the tactic of position elimination or downsizing (a.k.a. layoffs) as a means to enhance short-term financial results. When profits ... Read more
How The Survey Was Conducted
In the world of growing, privately held businesses, the INC. 500 define the elite. These are companies that have sustained unusually high rates of growth... Read more
Creating a Target Media List
Seven Steps to Creating a Target Media List It is best to create a target media list before you approach the media. The effort you... Read more
Color Me CEO? Test Shows How Bosses Are Wired
An analysis of some 900 CEOs' results shows they like magenta -- and are less dominant and confident than the rest of the population. Read more
Who Are the Real Entrepreneurs?
A noted entrepreneur explains why many people who share that lable are not really entrepreneurs. Read more
A Whole New Game
A Mexican media magnate and a New York publisher team up to start a national daily sports newspaper called The National. Read more
New Rules for Overtime Pay
On Monday, new rules for receiving overtime pay went into effect, setting the maximum eligible salary level at $455 per week (that's $23,660 per year, see... Read more
Passengers to Airlines: No Cell Phones
A recent survey reveals more people prefer to keep cabins phone-free. Read more
The Top 25 Angel Investors
Ranking the top angel investors. A couple years ago, we told you about a start-up called YouNoodle that claimed it came up with an algorithm that c... Read more
Obama's Tax Break
President Obama's big economic policy speech tomorrow should be interesting. The Journal is Read more
The Dark Side of Web Tracking
The Washington Post exposes a Read more
Write-Off Cap Increase Possible
President Bush's 2007 budget proposal includes some much needed tax relief for small businesses: the opportunity to write off up to $200,000 a year in exp... Read more
Credit Card Cuts and the Rise of Local Currency
Card providers slash limits. The WSJ has some disturbing examples of how cr... Read more
A Chief Digital Officer for New York
City picks entrepreneur to lead digital efforts. Meet Rachel Sterne. The 27-year-old entrepreneur was tapped by New York City Mayor Michael Bloombe... Read more
Who's Running America's Fastest-growing Companies
Most of you have probably seen them -- tests that claim to measure one's "entre-preneurial quotient." Invariably, they feature questions like: (1) A... Read more
Any Place, Any Times
Miss your hometown newspapers while you travel? NewspaperDirect Inc. has created a means for your local rag to be delivered hot-off-the-printer right to your... Read more
Any Place, Any Times
Miss your hometown newspapers while you travel? NewspaperDirect Inc. has created a means for your local rag to be delivered hot-off-the-printer right to your... Read more
The F Word
Failure: for entrepreneurs, there's both a right way and a wrong way to go bankrupt. Here's an overview of the recent demise of catalogue retailer J. Peterma... Read more
Publicity: A Better Way to Seed the Market
A look at how a small company offered a popular product at cost in a highly successful promotional campaign. Read more
Barack's BFF
As Barack Obama's campaign gained momentum over the past year, the name Marty Nesbitt has surfaced more and more. Nesbitt is his national campaign treasur... Read more
What Women Really Want
Businesses aren't the only ones who are thinking about marketing to women. Now, entire cities are jumping on board. A Read more
Introducing... The Guide
I'd like to welcome you to The Guide, a new blog designed to give modern entrepreneurs the tools they need to stay at the top of their games. My name is A... Read more
How Small Businesses Are Helping With the Oil Spill
Bloggers, inventors and entrepreneurs are pitching in to help the Gulf Coast recover from the worst spill in U.S. history. Read more
Sometimes, It Is Whether You Win or Lose
"The National" folds. Read more
Survey: Payments Arriving More Slowly for Small Business
Some 40 percent of small businesses say money they're owed is trickling in, while the Freelancers Union says half its members struggled to get paid last year. Read more
Home Sweet Home
Forget outsourcing call centers to India. "Homesourcing" seems to be the new trend, as more and more businesses find that employing independent contractor... Read more
How to Make Health Care Reform Work for Your Business
It's official: the Affordable Health Care for America Act has been signed into law. It is going to have ramifications for business owners large and small. We... Read more
SpotScout Wants to Be the eBay of Parking Spaces
First it needs $5 million. Read more
Federal Express's Fred Smith
The man who created overnight delivery says you absolutely, positively have to innovate -- if only to survive. Read more
Recovering From a Blow to Your Brand's Reputation
These 10 brands attempted, some more successfully than others, to bounce back from potentially game-ending disasters. Here's what you can learn from them. View slideshow
Celebrity Lessons in Selling
What can Justin Bieber teach you about optimizing your sales strategy? Baby, ooh: quite a lot. View slideshow
Attention Armchair App Developers
Hey, armchair app schemers. There's plenty of help for bringing your idea to iPhone screens everywhere, the Los Angeles Times Read more
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PR...
Advice on PR strategy with regard to the market, not the media. Read more
Probing the Financial Crisis; Billy Mays Dies
Pecora Hearings: the redux. Like the famous hearings led by Ferdinand Pecora in the early 1930s to investigate the cause of the Wall Street crash o... Read more
Are You Ready for Some -- Ads?
By all accounts, this year's Super Bowl will be a mixed bag of advertisements, enticing its audience in ways both provocative -- and playful. From suggest... Read more
Big Easy Entrepreneurs and Turning Buzz Into Bucks
Entrepreneurs help to revive The Big Easy. Four years after Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly 80% of New Orleans, the historic city is in the midst ... Read more
About Face on the "About Us" Page
Jakob Nielsen is well known and lauded for his web site usability expertise. He's been called the "guru of web page usability" by the New York Times, "the... Read more
SBA Fraud; Facebook Surrenders; Obama, Obama, Obama
GAO alleges major fraud in SBA program. The Government Accountability Office says hundreds and possibly even thousands of businesses in the Histori... Read more
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