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Your Small Business Questions, Answered
Send us your questions on challenges you face in your business. Journalist Karen E. Klein will interview experts and distill their insights into answers.
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Going for the Extra Credit
An online marketplace for lesson plans is making some teachers rich -
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Can I Sell You an Underground Bunker?
Hundreds of entrepreneurs are hatching businesses to serve "preppers," from bunker-building to survival-skills training to dating services -
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Don't Mess With the Lord of the Olympic Rings
Mom-and-pop shops throughout the U.K. are finding themselves in the cross hairs of trademark enforcers -
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Help Remedies's Hip Pharma
With hip packaging, absurd videos, and youth targeting, pharmaceutical startup Help Remedies is raising its profile as it puts fun in your medicine cabinet -
Sales & Marketing
Corporate America to Small Biz: Sell to Us
A dozen big companies, including IBM, Citi, and Caterpillar, want to make it easier for small companies to compete for their business -
Sales & Marketing
ZipList's Everywhere Recipe Box Lures 1M Cooks
With direct integration of the recipe clipping service, partner sites have helped generate 1 million ZipList accounts -
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Book Review: 'The Power of Habit,' by Charles Duhigg
How companies can profit by understanding and tweaking our routines -
Apple
Anarchy in the App Store
With 600,000 apps to police, Apple has trouble keeping up with rule breakers -
Media & Marketing
A Marketer's Homage to the Soda Can
The soft drink giants sell hundreds of millions of cans of soda every day. Learn from the century of tweaking that went into perfecting their packaging -
Sales & Marketing
Small Business's Shrinking GDP Contribution
As a contributor to GDP, small business has been growing smaller for more than a decade -
Investing
The DIY 'Maker Movement' Meets the VCs
An open-source ethos may spell a culture clash with investors -
Management
The 'Heart Attack Grill' Experience
A man suffered cardiac arrest at a deliberately unhealthy Vegas restaurant. How did no one see this coming? -
Policy
Be Wary of Online Ad Campaign Metrics
What's the return on investment of your marketing spending and how do you measure it? Just because metrics are precise doesn’t make them correct
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Online Gun Sellers Do a Bang-Up Business
Internet auction sites and marketplaces for firearms are flourishing -
Management
The 'Heart Attack Grill' Experience
A man suffered cardiac arrest at a deliberately unhealthy Vegas restaurant. How did no one see this coming? -
Profiles
Going for the Extra Credit
An online marketplace for lesson plans is making some teachers rich -
Profiles
Kind Healthy Snacks Goes From Small to Big
A minor mogul makes it by staying true to his mission -
Media & Marketing
A Marketer's Homage to the Soda Can
The soft drink giants sell hundreds of millions of cans of soda every day. Learn from the century of tweaking that went into perfecting their packaging -
Sales & Marketing
Can I Sell You an Underground Bunker?
Hundreds of entrepreneurs are hatching businesses to serve "preppers," from bunker-building to survival-skills training to dating services -
Sales & Marketing
Menswear E-Tailers Peddle Salvation in a Box
Male shoppers seeking refuge from the mall are driving growth in apparel sales online -
Investing
The DIY 'Maker Movement' Meets the VCs
An open-source ethos may spell a culture clash with investors -
Sales & Marketing
Small Business's Shrinking GDP Contribution
As a contributor to GDP, small business has been growing smaller for more than a decade -
Sales & Marketing
Corporate America to Small Biz: Sell to Us
A dozen big companies, including IBM, Citi, and Caterpillar, want to make it easier for small companies to compete for their business -
Sales & Marketing
Focus On Entrepreneurs, February 2013
From Bloomberg Businessweek, a roundup of news, trends, and ideas for business owners -
Policy
Be Wary of Online Ad Campaign Metrics
What's the return on investment of your marketing spending and how do you measure it? Just because metrics are precise doesn’t make them correct
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Kind Healthy Snacks Goes From Small to Big
A minor mogul makes it by staying true to his mission -
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Small Business's Shrinking GDP Contribution
As a contributor to GDP, small business has been growing smaller for more than a decade
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