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"After years of telling advertisers that the way they place ads is totally wrong, Google is finally coming around to accommodate Madison Avenue on its own terms. By perfecting paid-search and contextual ads, Google has done a lot to reinvent advertising. But old habits die hard, and advertisers still like to target ads based on good old demograph Read More

What do you do when you see one of your employees has posted a résumé to a service like Monster or CareerBuilder? That depends on why they're posting. Read More

The best way to establish relationships with your vendors. Read More

An interesting way to get yourself to get all of your ideas out before you go through the editing and revising process. Read More

The 10 commandments of negotiations here apply to every negotiator, deal maker, mediator, lawyer or simply anyone who's trying to negotiate something. To be real successful in negotiations, you need to invest and reinvest time to prepare ahead and adopt skills to help you improvise on the spot. Read More

Take a look around your office—what do you see? The traditional mix of memorabilia, photos from company golf tournaments? But you probably don't have a poster of the Sex Pistols above your desk. And Amantha Imber of Inventium says its deviant imagery, or something of similar shock value, might be just what you need for optimum brainstorming. Read More

Raising money for starting your own small business and defining what venture capital is. Read More

What prevents you from being a great innovator? Not much. Innovators by and large aren't creative geniuses gifted with da Vinci-like talent. It's not what they ARE - it's what they DO. They do these seven things you most likely do not. Read More

With its ability to lower the cost of voice applications and spur additional deployments, open source VoIP could be the solution smaller businesses have been looking for. Read More

While every business has a bank, few have a banker. That's because bankers are too often seen as obstacles standing between an entrepreneur and the bank's vault. However, small businesses are not doing business with a building — the bank — they are working with people — the bankers. So forging a relationship is crucial. Read More