Inside the June 2000 Issue
Features
Told You So!
Hot 100 businesses do burn bright, but they don't burn out. Here are the businesses that prove there's life after recognition in Entrepreneur magazine.
From: Business To: Business
Subject: Long-heralded as the next big set of Internet opportunities, business-to-business e-commerce is here--and the crystal balls were right; it's big.
Burn, Baby, Burn
Entrepreneur and Dun & Bradstreet's Sixth Annual Hot 100--the fastest-growing entrepreneurial businesses in America
Highs and Lows
You don't need to spend a fortune on office equipment.or do you? From cheap to posh, here are our picks for the tools you need.
Best of the Best
You're young. You're fired up. You want a...franchise? We help you find one that's made just for you.
What About Me?
Start-up financing is easier than ever--if you're a dotcom. But what about the rest of us? Check out all your options.
Columns
Bright Ideas
If you can handle it, Wal-Mart's panel of experts will tell you how good your invention really is.
Hot Seat
.say it anyway - but make it constructive, says psychologist Hendrie Weisinger.
Pulse
The business will grow. Clients will come. Customers will buy. And if you think we're wrong, maybe you should think differently.
Pulse
Does your favorite snack food say a lot about your personality? Absolutely, says Alan Hirsch, director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, in the foundation's study, "Snack Food Hedonics and Personality."
Pulse
...or until you reach 2.2 percent of your colossal earnings, whichever comes first.
Pulse
For Sustainers, success is alright, I guess-as long as it's accomplished in relative comfort.
Women
Profile of manufacturer of reflective accessories and clothing for pets and their families
Beating The Odds
Cap'n Crunch, eat your heart out! These guys got celebrity endorsers to pose for their cereal boxes-and now they've got big aisle-space clout!
Cutting Edge
Sometimes, the best way to make millions is to provide something free of charge.
Family Business
Working together can get complicated when two or more families run a single business.
Legal
It's good to fire bad employees. It's not so good to yap about how bad they were at unemployment hearings.
Management Smarts
When recruiting, look to merger survivors-not their laid-off brethren.
Staff Smarts
Drug testing: an easy way to keep problem employees out or a cost-ineffective invasion of privacy? Join the debate.
Your Business
Protecting yourself from business allies turned business competitors
Your Business
Laws: Federal, state, local...and if you're not sure your company's in compliance, you'd better get sure.
Advertising Workshop
Eliminate some of your ad's excesses, and it can garner more attention.
Marketing Smarts
People flip channels during the break...but what if your product were on the show?
Marketing Smarts
But don't waste time getting photo subjects to say it-use stock pictures.
Sales Success
Don't stop now-for a successful tomorrow, you've got to keep building on the success achieved today.
Funds
When the right stocks fill out a focused fund, a little can go a very, very long way.
Tax Talk
Granted, federal estate tax laws might change. But don't let that stop you from taking money-saving steps now.
Biz 101
Not ready for the burden of a full-time business? How do your evenings and weekends look?
First Steps
Are you a big scaredy-cat? Here's how to turn terror into super-confidence.
Franchise Focus
One Hour Martinizing provides an opportunity that won't take you to the cleaners.
Opportunities
Franchise updates on 1-800-GOT-JUNK, EagleRider Inc., and Sears Carpet and Upholstery Care Inc.
Buyers Guide
Is your home office a network nightmare-piles of wires, holes in the wall and cabling for everything but the kitchen sink? Take it all wireless!
Net Profits
Wanna' keep your online business free of shipping company disasters? Pick the right system from the beginning, and it won't happen to you.
Net Profits
Reviews of PeachLink 2.0 e-commerce and back office function software, Online Merchant Gold Web design software, and Small Office Security software
Tech Smarts
Pushing the barrier with your palmtop? You need a new breed of processor.
Tech Smarts
Patents on everyday Web innovations could hurt large and small e-businesses.
Web
Online access to thousands of speeches by elected officials, government bureaucrats, business leaders and more
Innovations
When you create a product with broad commercial potential, be sure to protect your interests by patenting the products in a way that keeps the competition at bay.
Browsing
With domain names getting eaten up as fast as Krispy Kreme doughnuts, try these creative tips for finding a name that works.
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