Building a Business
Exhibit and Commercialize That Crazy Idea
With the right strategy and planning, expos like CES can help you drive interest in your business, get your geek on and push profits.
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Building a Business
How My Not-So-Hot Rod Taught Me the Difference Between Endearing and Enduring
By Ray Zinn
Building a Business
The Importance of Product, Process and People
Stay focused on the big three and stay successful.
Thought Leaders
5 Ways Smart Entrepreneurs Can Stop Thinking In Circles
It's a good day when data makes the right choice obvious. The rest of the time you have to go with what feels right based on what facts you have.
Building a Business
If You’re Not Course-Correcting, You’re Not Taking Enough Risks
Whether your business operates like a speed boat or a cruise ship, you'll eventually encounter mistakes that need to be addressed.
By Boland Jones
Building a Business
How to Save Your Business From Doom
Here are five signs that your company is going down a dead end and how to change course before it's too late.
Building a Business
What You Must Do Before Taking Your Company Public
Going public often gets a bad rap for its complexity and challenges, but the process doesn't have to be difficult.
By Shawn Degnan
Business Ideas
4 Things Truly Innovative Startups Never Do
Startups disrupting the status quo all work in different ways, but there are a few commonalities they do to succeed.
By Shanon Marks
Building a Business
This Strategy Will Make Negotiations Less Painful
From making job offers to closing deals, building a business can feel like a never-ending sequence of negotiations. But it doesn't need to be an awful experience.
By Jeff Giesea
Building a Business
You Lost a Deal: Here is the Secret to Not Losing the Next One
Sellers have an incredible opportunity to learn from their losses by asking their buyers a series of simple questions, in an authentic manner, during the post-mortem process
By Ryan Sorley
Building a Business
A Rising Tide Raises All Entrepreneurs
Stop focusing on competing. Instead your efforts should be directed toward creating the best product or service.
Building a Business
3 Tips for Entering a New Market
Keeping the following in mind will lend an edge to filling market voids and successfully disrupt established players in almost any entrepreneurial arena.
By Samit Varma
Thought Leaders
5 Things to Work on to Protect Your Business Before a Crisis Hits
If you left your business for six months, would you have the right survival systems in place?
By Doug Wagner
Building a Business
The Most Overlooked Strategy for Business Development
There are plenty of good ways to feed your pipeline but one of the most satisfying methods is often ignored.
By Dorie Clark
Marketing
Opportunity Everywhere: Why and How You Should Cold Email Everyone
Using this method has gotten me on the phone with celebrities and landed me as a contributor to this website.
By Andrew Medal
Building a Business
Why the Membership Model Makes Sense
The key is to play upon consumers' sense of thrift and the social capital exchanged when telling a friend about a new service.
By Will Ford
Building a Business
5 Reasons Why Your Strategy Is ‘This Close’ to Failing
The bridge between setting and realizing a goal is the strategic plan. Yet that's where most business turn to mush.
By Doug Wagner
Business News
From Bacon and Eggs to Parcels and Packages: Waffle House Joins Roadie in Sharing Economy Partnership
The ubiquitous diner has partnered with an Atlanta-based startup, offering its restaurants as a meeting place for the peer-to-peer delivery service's users.
By Carly Okyle
Building a Business
The 4 S’s of All Startups
Considering creating a new business? If you have fleshed out these four elements, you should be ready to launch.
By Peter Gasca
Building a Business
7 Holiday Traditions That Are Practical and Profitable All Year Long
Turn these once-a-year activities into monthly habits and watch your business grow
Building a Business
Seek Your Strategy for 2015 on a Vision Quest
Sometimes, to see what comes next we need to take a step back.
Building a Business
The Only 2 Good Reasons to Work for Free
Sometimes by calculation, sometimes by inspiration, you know when waiving you fee is the best move.
Business News
Massive Layoffs Are Reportedly Brewing at eBay Ahead of PayPal Spinoff
Plans are in the works to shed as much as 10 percent of eBay's workforce.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
Girl Scout Cookie Sales Are Now Clickable
Troops will soon be able to hone their entrepreneurial skills on the Internet.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
Most Entrepreneurs Have 4 of the 5 Critical Success Traits, and That’s Not Quite Enough
The drive to innovate and disrupt defines entrepreneurship but when what you've invented works, the opposite qualities are necessary.
Business Model
Claim to Be the Uber of X. Enliven Your Company With the Right Analogy.
Give your startup some inspiration by modeling it after a successful enterprise. This will help you explain your business to outsiders and provide insights for future direction.
Thought Leaders
Go for Chess Not Checkers When Running a Business
Whether it's detective work, coaching or entrepreneurship, the best people are playing chess while the rest are playing checkers.
Building a Business
4 Steps to Successful Execution of a Strategy
An entrepreneur's best-laid plans can go awry if there's not careful followup. Here's a framework for giving your startup a greater chance at prevailing.
By Jesse Torres