March 1999
Your So-Called Life
The overachieving entrepreneur's guide to making time for a real life.
Food, Glorious Food!
If you love it, why not invest in it?
Close To Home
Community lenders serve as a vital source of funding for nontraditional borrowers.
Delivering the Goods
Your Web site gets tons of orders, but how do you fill them? Don't go it alone--outsourcing makes fulfillment and distribution simpler and more efficient.
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Wireless Wandering
You are now free to move around your company.
Is this thing on?
State-of-the-art tools.
Private Eyes
Professional Web researchers, auto-responders, virus hoaxes.
Top Secrets
The newest way to keep trespassers off your intellectual property.
Blame It On Rio
South America rises again.
Dynamic Duos
When friends are the perfect blend in business.
Virtual Trips
Travel sites make life on the road a little easier.
Spinning Tales
Story time is back--and we're not kidding.
Bright Lights, Big Cities
Urban renewal spurs a return to city living nationwide.
No Harm Done?
A proposed OSHA rule could create business hazards in more ways than one.
What's It Worth?
If there's value in your inventory or receivables, you may be able to borrow against it to help fund the growth of your business.
High Hopes
Small high-tech entrepreneurs express even more optimism than their big-business counterparts. So what does David know that Goliath doesn't?
Future Speak
Think demassification. Figure out how to deliver. In the future that prognosticators Alvin and Heidi Toffler foresee, a whole lot of entrepreneurial opportunities await.
5 Best Customer Service Ideas
Don't do business without them.
Schizophrenic Nation
They're healthy; they're indulgent. They're cynical; they're hopeful. They're having fun; they're working like maniacs. Are today's consumers nuts--or just trying to have it all?
How I Got My Big Idea
Get the lowdown on news, trends, programs and more
The X-Treme Files
Why today's fringe culture is tomorrow's cute ad campaign--and how the cutting edge bites back
Gotta Have It!
How to build a business on a $3,000 budget (and yes, that includes a computer)
How To Cheat On Your Boss
Starting a business from your cube . . . without getting caught
Good Trips
Tools and sites to help you travel cheap
Think fast
Hard facts on the latest software
Space Cases
Back it up with a backup drive.
Swimming With Sharks
Internet scams, money from mom and dad, tax-trimmers
Pushing The Envelope
Entrepreneurs get their messages across with specialty greeting cards.
Hair Apparent
Thank heaven for little girls.
Trade Shows
Mark your calendar.
Power Play
When the lights go out, make sure your computer is protected.
What's In A Name?
It depends. If your company's name doesn't describe the product or service you provide, it shouldn't be the focus of your advertising.
What Price Success?
Your prices can ensure your prosperity or doom you to failure. Choose them wisely.
Tune In Or Miss Out
Start-up videos to get your business going.
(E)mail-order Education
Course one: Becoming a restaurateur.
Good Fortune
Diary of a start-up: from idea to fruition.
Getting Answers
Don't let a franchisor's decision not to disclose earnings figures discourage you. There are ways to find out what you need to know.
Redesigning A Classic
. . . but the mug is as frosty as ever.
Read the Fine Print
... or you could get screwed.
Bagging The Sack Lunch
Franchising reinvents the school lunch.
What's New
Bagels and stamps, please.
Equal-Access Success
Franchisee finds disabled staff works out well.
Breaking In
Program helps African-Americans become franchisors.
Cyber Cash
The sure thing that wasn't: As the initial frenzy subsides, the Internet's investment-raising potential is re-evaluated. Yes, the capital is out there-but only if you know where (and how) to look.
Help Is On The Way
Resources for entrepreneurs
Soft Sell
How two brothers with an idea for a better tissue got in the game with the big boys--and didn't get flushed.
Buying Time
Have a great idea, but you're not quite ready for a patent? A provisional patent protects your rights--and ''holds your place'' in the Patent Office's line.
Something To Prove
Are you giving customers something your competitors can't? Pushing your extra value could put you on top.
Dog Gone
Teaching an old product new tricks.
You've Got Mail
What shipping and handling can do for your business.
Theory of Un-Relativity
How to keep nonfamily managers happy in order to grow your business.
To The Rescue
Always stepping in to save the day? Stop doing your employees' work before it's too late!
Handle With Care
Office temps--what you need to know about the legal rights of these fleeting employees.
Elementary, My Dear Watson
It's an air-tight case: Staging business-related mystery events proves positive!
Year In Review
Why examining your deductibles may lead to significant deductions.
Fathers Figure
Don't forget men when setting work/family policies for your business.
Extra Credit
Searching for more tax savings? An ounce of credit can be worth a pound of deductions.
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