Topic: Inc. Magazine

Competing Priorities? Promoting Yourself and Your Employer via Social Media

You've got a little free time at work and you decide to tweet about topics of personal interest. Your witty quips, observations, and links to YouTube videos of your dog barking at the vacuum cleaner are all well and good, but what ...READ»

Two Branding Gurus Tell Their Side of the Story, Part 2

What do you get when you get two industry experts to share their views on branding, from two distinct areas of application? READ»

Two Branding Gurus Tell Their Side of the Story, Part 1

What do you get when you get two industry experts to share their views on branding, from two distinct areas of application? READ»

13 Business Books That Will Blow Your Mind

There are business books that teach you how to balance your ledger, hire the right people, and manage your cash flow. These aren't those books. These are the books that open your mind to new ways of doing business. Take a look at these 13 mind-blowing business books and add your own suggestions on what was left out.READ»

Two Surefire Ways to Slay the Anti-Growth Dragons

Dragons appear in many forms in today's growth-oriented B2B companies.Do you know where to look? These strategies will help you slay them.READ»

Inc. Magazine interview on how to start a web business.

It's not everyday I get a call from Inc. Magazine to be interviewed. The distinguished writer J. J. McCorvy called because he was writing an article about how-to start a successful web business. I'm very honored! It's amazing to be recognized by such a well respected magazine. It only took me fifteen short years in the business..:-) READ»

Social Media Marketing: Are You Spread Too Thin?

Do you treat social media sites like spinning plates, afraid to let any one drop while ignoring more important aspects of your business? Then it's time to rethink your priorities.READ»

HostGator is ranked 21st top fastest growing companies!

Host Gator is ranked on 21st place of the fastest growing companies in America, according to Inc. Magazine, 2nd place in top business service companies and number one top fastest growing company in Texas. Here is the link to top ...READ»

A WorkQuake(TM) Perspective on the Workplace

Just read the Inc. Magazine article about how Springfield ReManufacturing Corp. and CEO Jack Stack ("The Great Game of Business") are weathering the latest manifestation of the WorkQuake(tm) - the Recession. Stuff Mr. ...READ»

Singularity Cinema: A Q&A With the Director of Ray Kurzweil Bio-doc 'Transcendent Man'

Inventor Ray Kurzweil was never your typical entrepreneur. His first company developed omni-font optical character recognition, leading to the invention of the flatbed scanner, a technology he later sold to ...READ»

Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them

We worry about many things. Our kids' grades, our parents' health, the world at large. (Also, will all those unemployed investment bankers have enough to eat?) Add to that list one really odd thing we worry about: our own future ...READ»

• Successful Experiments in Customer Restraint

Bigger is Bigger, Not Better

Are the days of the big design agency over? It seems to me they have been over for quite a while now. In the late 90's with the dot com craze in full throttle it looked as though they were making a comeback. With every design ...READ»

My Letter Published In Inc. Magazine October 2008 Issue

The 3rd quarter has started nicely - The entrepreneurship book I endorsed is on sale and doing well, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, we have a meeting with a potential investor on Sunday who approached us and I am in Inc. magazine's ...READ»

A Twitter Business Model?

BusinessWeek has a great article that is bound to be very popular - The Trouble With Twitter. The article points out real issues with the service which doesn't seem to have a business model (GigaOm posited that maybe they ...READ»

Rags to Riches…Anecdotally Speaking

I love listening to a good story…especially ones about entrepreneurs and their path to eventual success.    The woman or man who turned nothing into something, who did it quickly, and without the help of others, AKA the ...READ»

Personal Brands Ultimately Fuel Corporate Brands

When I sent my recent email to tell a good friend about the book testimonial, part of his reply included the following: "It clearly shows that you are cultivating a personal brand around entrepreneurship. I have seen from my ...READ»

Startuptoons.com Launches And Gets On Inc.com The Same Day

I have been nagging my wife with an idea since 2005 that I felt was the perfect team project to combine my business experience and her graphic design abilities: Startuptoons.com - a website/blog focused on editorial commentary on ...READ»

Want Higher Profits? Smash the Glass Ceiling

According to a near two-decade research study of Fortune 500 companies (from 1980–1998) by Roy Adler, a Fulbright scholar and Professor of Marketing at Pepperdine University and one of a very select few awarded the distinction of ...READ»

Small Business Rags

I started reading Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazines monthly last year.  I like both magazines about equally but for different reasons.  I let my subscription slide on Entrepreneur so I am only going to speak to Inc. Magazine.  ...READ»

Deal Jitters

You're not alone. Now more acquirers are buying insurance to ease their fears.READ»

Risking Your Life (Insurance)

Your dangerous diversions could hurt your policy, even if it doesn't hurt you.READ»

Case Study: New Orleans Business Struggles to Survive

Raymond Rathle survived a hurricane but lost his employees, customers, and insurance. Can his business be saved?READ»

Katherine Hammer

Start It Up columnistREAD»

Katherine Hammer

Start It Up columnistREAD»

How Do Leaders Deal With Loss?

Adman extraordinaire Jay Chiat once proudly told me his secret for getting people to take his calls. "I call the person's secretary and say, 'Tell X it's his doctor, and I have the results of his tests.' X rushes to the phone; it ...READ»