Marketing
Let Customers Get to Know You With Video
Building familiarity with your customers, and relating to them first as viewers, can create sales without selling.
By Walter Chen
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Thought Leaders
3 Business Lessons You Don’t Want to Learn the Hard Way
Learning from your mistakes is wise. Learning from the mistakes other people make is brilliant.
By Shaun Buck
Online Presence
7 Lessons on Social Media From the Oscars
We'd like to thank the Academy for these business tips.
By Carly Okyle
Building a Business
Every Time a Bell Rings, a Business Gets Its Wings
Entrepreneurs can learn a lot about business from these four classic Christmas movies.
Thought Leaders
5 Lessons I’ve Learned From Building Our Remote Startup Team
Think you need to be chained to New York or San Francisco to attract the most competent, talented employees? Fuggedaboutit!
Business News
What the Richest Man in Private Equity Wants to Tell Entrepreneurs
Steven Schwarzman, CEO and chairman of Blackstone, explains why you should stick with what you know
By Lucinda Shen
Building a Business
7 Lessons From Entrepreneurs Who Kept Their Day Jobs While Starting Their Businesses
The insight you gain while working for someone else can mean the difference between a successful entrepreneurial enterprise and one that fizzles.
Thought Leaders
4 Leadership Quotes That Matter
There's a lot of cliched advice out there, but these quotes contain real wisdom.
By Les McKeown
Thought Leaders
When Millionaires Make Mistakes
The Young Millionaires of 2015 share what they've learned from their mistakes and failures.
Building a Business
How We Started Our Brewery
This real-life startup story details what it really takes to get a craft brewing brand up and running.
By Corie Brown
Thought Leaders
6 Lies They Teach in Business School
Sometimes, the lessons you learn from life experience contradict the ones you learned in the classroom.
Building a Business
How a Brick-and-Mortar Furniture Shop Struck Ecommerce Gold
The owner of a Missouri-based appliance and furniture store moved online and now has a national customer base.
By Gwen Moran
Thought Leaders
How the Most Important Lessons in Football Apply to Running Your Business
The values that forge a team on the gridiron are just as relevant in the less glamorous work of building a company.
Building a Business
Everything I Learned About Business I Learned in the Kitchen
A co-founder draws from his family's culinary heritage to inspire creative success at his company.
Building a Business
5 Lessons I Learned From Starting a Company in Asia and Brought Back to the States
A serial entrepreneur shares what he learned from his experience launching his first business far from home.
Marketing
6 Lessons From a ‘Shark Tank’ Winner
An appearance on the show seemed an unattainable goal. There was as much to learn reaching for it as there was attaining it.
Thought Leaders
How Tony Hawk Skated Past Rookie Business Mistakes on His Ride to Success
The legendary skateboarder describes his early entrepreneurial wipeouts and the hard lessons he learned from them.
Building a Business
5 Lessons Leaders Can Learn From the Sony Hacking Scandal
Professionals in any industry can learn from the most dramatic story to come out of Hollywood in years.
By Carly Okyle
Thought Leaders
10 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From America’s National Pastime
Baseball, played without a clock and unfolding over the longest season in sports, requires the same patience and dynamism as running a business.
Thought Leaders
What I Learned From the Hispanic Community About Entrepreneurship
Consider Latinos' often overlooked contribution to the U.S. economy. As American society continues to diversify, the lessons of one group can be applied to others.
Thought Leaders
5 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Oscar de la Renta
He inspired many with his words layered with wisdom and designed with wit. Now see how his reflections might speak to you.
By Adiat Disu
Entrepreneurs
7 Business Lessons From Ross, Rachel and the Rest of the ‘Friends’ Crew
The sitcom that aired 20 years ago has some lessons for entrepreneurs that stand the test of time.
By Carly Okyle
Thought Leaders
7 Truths About Risk I Learned Riding the Rodeo Circuit
Don't ever bet a weak hand and never make a bet that you aren't willing to lose.
By Fred Brown
Building a Business
Fight Early and Fail Fast: 15 Business Lessons in 15 Years
There's a lot to learn from so many years in business. Here are a few of the most important things I've picked up along the way.
By Kevin Hart
Thought Leaders
5 Business Lessons I Learned in a Foxhole
Powerful lessons from the military that continue to serve me as an entrepreneur all these years later.
By Jake Wood
Building a Business
10 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Must Learn
Building a long-term, healthy and sustainable business isn't the result of magic, but understanding the importance of adapting and growing.
Thought Leaders
Lessons Learned on a Pizza Shop Owner’s Long Entrepreneurial Journey
The first Papa Johns' pizza was baked in the renovated broom closet of a bar. The facilities are better now but a lot else is unchanged.