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While the presidential race captures headlines, congressional contests and local ballot initiatives affect you, your business and your community.

Ironically, a sales victory puts you at your customer's mercy about when you get paid. Get out ahead of cascading shortages with these tips.

Don't let your genius product idea crash to Earth due to an avoidable marketing gaff. Heed this list and achieve lift off.

Murphy's Law offers the insight, but only the best managers act in anticipation to mitigate its effects. Here's how.

Too often a new hire's first day is a flamboyant display of your company at its worst. Try harder to make a good first impression.

It's easy to think of it as a young person's problem, but its ripple effects are prodigious, affecting the entire national economy.

Working projects gives you flexibility but there are some harsh realities to long-term gigging.

Every generation perplexes and discomfits the one that preceded it.

It may not be brain surgery, but done right, sales is a practice like medicine or any other profession. Learn it. Practice it.

Navigate the risks of social media, from brand buzz to negative reviews, by charting an Internet course that avoids known obstacles and unforeseen dangers.

A sudden introduction to a new person would seem simple enough, but most of us have neither thought it through nor gotten it down pat. Here's how.

Your company's references must be managed, evaluated and checked to make sure it's helping to get new clients.

Five truths that could help change your outlook on living a successful life.

Entrepreneurs can't afford to let their mission, values and vision slip into banality.

WIth so much to do and so few resources, bootstrapping entrepreneurs often ignore workplace safety until it's too late. Don't risk it.

There are many good reasons to begin your entrepreneurial quest, just probably not the ones you are thinking of.

Marketing is mostly telling customers what you think they want to hear. Thought leadership is telling them what they need to hear.

Success is sometimes as simple as asking the right questions.

Like surfers wait for the right wave, business leaders wait for the right opportunities.

A salesperson ready with answers to these questions is more likely to nail the sale.

Entrepreneurs must learn how to pivot their business model with changing times.

The Internet where spunky startups have a real chance of toppling lumbering giants will be no more if net neutrality is killed by regulatory edict.

Adopt a proactive approach to save your small business from physical danger and financial peril.

While you try to grow your contacts online, steer clear of these practices. Or you might see your contact list shrink.

Many business owners wrongly assume that accidents and injuries on the job won't happen in their operations.

Working as an innovator inside a company, especially in the environmental field, can yield satisfying results, says an insider.