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Building a Business

If 80 Percent of Success Is Showing Up Then 20 Percent Is Following up

The excuses are many, but the solution is surprisingly simple.

By Phil La Duke

Marketing

5 Writing Tactics to Win Hearts, Minds and More Business

Persuasive writing makes your content -- and your solution -- stand out from the rest. Sharpen your approach, and you'll connect with readers in a meaningful way.

By Yatin Khulbe

Building a Business

3 Steps You Can Take Now to Unlock Your Inner Innovator

Ignore real-world limitations and you're a lot likelier to visualize the ideal solution.

By Charlie Harary

Thought Leaders

The 3 Questions Customers Don’t Ask That You Need to Answer

People should just speak their mind but business is a guessing game.

By Matt Fore

Building a Business

Success Is Easy — Just Give Up

You only find the most elusive things in life when you've given up searching for them.

By Steve Tobak

Building a Business

4 Business Myths That Actually Make Success Even Harder

Business, like the rest of life, is filled with problems so complicated and unavoidable that we really, really want to believe there is a simple solution.

By Tor Constantino

Building a Business

Curiosity Might Have Killed the Cat. But Don’t Let It Kill You.

Ask questions! Without curiosity, there's no direction.

By Jeff Boss

Building a Business

4 Pain Points of Future Flights and How to Handle Them

All signs point to worsening flight experiences. What can be done?

By Elaine Glusac

Building a Business

Instead of Worrying About Products vs. Features, Focus on Building Solutions

If you're solving a genuine problem faced by enough people, even the simplest feature can make a great solution.

By Mike Trigg

Thought Leaders

6 Remarkably Simple Steps to Becoming a Real Problem-Solver

History's greatest leaders may have complained from time to time, but they all built legacies around their innate abilities to find and execute solutions to their biggest gripes.

By Peter Gasca

Tech

3 Apps That Solve Problems You Hope to Never Have

Sometimes ingenious technology is used to solve discouragingly trivial problems. Other times, it reminds you your problems aren't really so bad.

By Pratik Dholakiya

Entrepreneurs

When Faced With Adversity, Focus on Solutions, Not More Problems

To turn failure into a gift and grow through the tough times instead of just casually going through them, you must begin to start focusing on ways to actually resolve the situation.

By Matt Mayberry

Thought Leaders

When Looking for a Solution, Stop Staring at the Problem

When analysis hits a deadend, walk away from the problem to free your creative mind.

By Dixie Gillaspie

Building a Business

5 Essentials for Achieving Long-Term Success in the Tech Sector

Attrition for tech startups is wholesale, so a company that has adapted and prospered for more than 30 years is worth studying.

By Ben Rosenberg

Building a Business

8 Startups That Are Making Waves By Solving Big Problems

If you want to be successful as a business owner, you've got to solve common issues.

By Sujan Patel

Building a Business

To Grow Your Business, Start Creating Solutions Instead of Just Managing Problems

Success requires overcoming our natural tendency to protect what we have to focus on creating more of what we seek.

By Warren Cassell, Jr.

Building a Business

4 Lessons for Every Entrepreneur Creating Big Data Solutions

Big Data is dazzling but it doesn't automatically shed light on real problems.

By Bill Schmarzo

Tech

How to Solve a Problem In 3 Steps — Define It, Redefine It, Repeat

Often, it is only when we seek a solution that we realize the complexity what the problem really is.

By Mike Stringer

Building a Business

How Hacking Is Helping Businesses Beyond the Tech Sector

A variety of businesses, from retail to service industries, are organizing internal events using the creative talents of their own employees to solve, or hack, problems.

By John Patrick Pullen

Thought Leaders

Defining Problems: The Most Important Business Skill You’ve Never Been Taught

Fundamental critical thinking is essential in business, and life, but is seldom seen on a college curriculum. Happily, it's something you can figure out.

By Michael Cooper

Building a Business

Whether You’re Starting a Business or Not, It Pays to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Applying these eight skills will differentiate you from a crowded and competitive workforce and prepare you if you do start a venture.

By Peter Gasca