Women in Business


Recent Women in Business Articles

VC Kay Koplovitz: 'Tell Them How You're Going to Make Them Money'

What will help women founders seeking start-up financing? A focus on the investor return.  Read more

Help Your Employees Get More Done

If you want happy employees, then help them do their jobs faster and better. Here's how.  Read more

Why I Feel Sorry for Marissa Mayer's Baby

What sort of message is the Yahoo CEO sending to her employees -- and to the future workforce?  Read more

Bringing in Stars, and Letting Them Shine

It's not easy for me to delegate, but our company needs a seasoned manager. What I've learned.  Read more

What Richard Branson Could Teach Marissa Mayer

The hardest-working, top-performing people are also the ones who need the most flexibility.  Read more

Stellar Customer Experience: 4 Tips

Take a cue from other businesses that have excellent customer service and learn to incorporate those strategies into your business.  Read more

How to Flunk a Job Interview

These common mistakes will ruin your chances of getting just about any job.  Read more

What Sheryl Sandberg's New Book Means for Women Entrepreneurs

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wants to start a revolution for women in the workplace. Inc. editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan explores the implications for women ...  Read more

4 Reasons You'll Fail at Entrepreneurship

If you're starting your own business for these four reasons don't do it.  Read more

Bobbi Brown: Always Keep Your Eyes Open

Before she built a beauty empire, Bobbi Brown gleaned business instincts from her Cadillac-selling grandfather.  Read more

Photos Are Social Media Gold

Here are five ways to use images to grow your follower base on social media.  Read more

What Women Entrepreneurs Need Most 

The co-founder of Gilt Groupe says the difference between male entrepreneurs and female ones comes down to something men get that women don't.  Watch video

Help Your Business Get Social: 3 Free Tools

Get a lot of bang for no bucks with these free business-oriented platforms.  Read more

5 Easy Steps to Get Started on LinkedIn

If your customers are other businesses or have specific industry interests, you might want to give LinkedIn a second look.  Read more

3 Types of Poison Employees

Here are three types of employees that drag your company down, and how you can stop their bad behavior.  Read more

Someone Is Taking Credit For Your Idea! Now What?

Giving credit where credit's due is essential to business success. Unfortunately, it doesn't always happen.  Read more

Why Your Shipping Policy is Losing You Business

If you're a small retailer, you've got it hard enough; don't lose a potential customer because of bad customer service and annoying store policies.  Read more

First-time Managers: Don't Micromanage

If your company culture is all about empowering employees, your managers need to know how to step back and just listen.  Read more

3 Ways to Establish Your Company's Voice

Having a unique personality can help you stand out from your competitors. Here are some tips to spiff up your brand voice.  Read more

Great Leaders Aren't Just Role Models

Managers, employees, customers, and other entrepreneurs need a lot more than inspiration.  Read more

3 Easy SEO Tools to Improve Your Website

These companies can help take the mystery out of SEO and get your site on its way to ranking higher in Google.  Read more

How to Get and Cultivate Customer Advocates

Instead of climbing onto a rooftop and shouting, why not have everyone on the street singing your praises?  Read more

5 Things Not to Do in the New Year

Getting rid of old habits and old ways of thinking is just as important as committing to new ones.  Read more

12 Female Entrepreneurs Who Inspired Us in 2012

These young women behind companies including Spanx and Polyvore made it big in 2012. Here's how they made an impression on YEC members.  Read more

2 Women Serial Entrepreneurs Tell All

Susan Leger Ferraro, founder of an early-childhood schools chain, and Laura Fitton, digital business owner, irreverently detail what has helped them most alo...  Read more

The Way I Work: Trina Turk

When it comes to designing her $60 million clothing line, Trina Turk follows her gut. But when it comes to business, she has learned to be methodical.  Read more

Don't Think You Need Change. Think Again

Just because something's working fine, doesn't mean it can't be even better.  Read more

How Not To Get Duped by a Consultant

We learned the hard way how not to hire a digital marketing agency. What you can gain from our mistakes.  Read more

The Choice You Shouldn't Force Employees to Make

You want dedicated workers--all business owners do. But workaholics? Here's why you don't want to encourage those.  Read more

6 Ways to Spread the Holiday Spirit

Aside from a holiday party, there are lots of creative, inexpensive ways to bring your "office family" together.  Read more

Why You Need to Market to Your Employees

Marketing a new brand and product internally to your employees could be more important than what your customers will ultimately see.  Read more

When You Should Hit 'Send'

An e-mail marketing firm digs through more than 20 million messages to figure out when is the best time to send marketing e-mails.  Read more

2 Tools That Turn Customers Into Cheerleaders

Incentivizing current customers to buy more and bring in new business is a huge opportunity you can't miss.  Read more

3 Basics of Facebook Analytics

You've got a few months' worth of Facebook activity under your belt. Now's the time to dig into the data and see what's working.  Read more

Shift in Opinions on Working-While-Parenting

A Wharton professor finds that over the past 20 years the opinions of men and women on working parenthood and the division of responsibilities are converging.  Read more