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Topics Startup / Handbook Lessons from startup school By Michelle Warren | March 22, 2006

What a class on launching your own business can teach you about smart strategies for entrepreneurs.

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Topics Leadership / Handbook Sales compensation plans: How to motivate your employees By Matthew Cook | February 08, 2012 Does your sales compensation plan encourage all the right outcomes for your company?

Topics Handbook Acquisitions: Buying a business By Chris Atchison | Pry before you buy | December 08, 2011 Making an acquisition is a tricky business. The answers to these seven questions will tell you want you're really in for.

Topics Handbook Better ways to give By Joanna Track | December 07, 2011 Charitable requests can overwhelm your business. Here's how one entrepreneur improved the returns for both the donor and the recipients.

Topics Handbook Stamps of approval By Jim McElgunn | December 07, 2011 Before you dismiss QR codes as another passing tech fad, consider these seven smarter ways to put them to work.

Topics Handbook / International Trade Financing foreign sales By Deborah Aarts | December 07, 2011 Here's how to fund your next export order.

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Topics Handbook Social media branding: Learning to fly By Wayne S. Roberts | Learning to fly | December 07, 2011 A simple guide for any business making its first investment in social media—or wondering why it wasn't better the last time.

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Topics Handbook Instant MBA: Business plans, e-tailing By Deborah Aarts | Instant MBA | December 07, 2011 The data are in: Business plans don't matter. Also, the secret to e-tailing success is zoom photo technology.

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Topics Handbook Book Smarts: Designing for Growth By PROFIT staff | December 07, 2011 Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie's Designing for Growth reviewed.

Topics Handbook Sales meetings that don't suck By Fawzia Sheikh | December 07, 2011 Consider a new approach that educates, motivates and never puts anyone to sleep.

Topics Sales & Marketing / Handbook To the challenger go the spoils By Deborah Aarts | October 11, 2011 In today’s complex sales environment, you need people who control the customer conversation

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