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Don't overlook the survey power of social media channels, says Idea Paint's Jeff Avallon. Plus, tips from Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.

If you have similar products in your portfolio, setting pricing that enable both of them to succeed can be a big challenge. Here's how to do it.One of our clients, an airplane manufacturer, was struggling with overlap between two of ...

Incremental success can lull you into dangerous complacency. Use these techniques to shake up your mindset and start planning for explosive growth.In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins wrote that the opposite of "great" is not "bad," but rather ...

Sally Hogshead, author of Fascinate: Your Seven Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation explains how to exploit your own personality traits in order to knock anyone's socks off.Sally Hogshead is in an unenviable position. As the author of a book called ...

Avoid profit-killing discounts and price wars by differentiating yourself, your firm and your offering from the competition.When you're selling against a lower-priced competitor, you have two choices: discount or differentiate.Offering a discount is easy, which is why sellers resort to ...

Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council answer the question: What's your best tip for staying on task in a busy start-up?The Young Entrepreneur Council asked 14 successful young entrepreneurs for their best (and least obvious!) tips for staying focused and ...

Pitching your company to investors daunting. We know that firsthand. So we picked the brain of a prominent venture capitalist, and got him to share secrets of making a great pitch.We wrote a few weeks ago that the question we're ...

Author Laura Vanderkam reveals how highly successful people put their pre-breakfast hours to use and explains how you can be more like them.The day may have 24 hours of equivalent length but author Laura Vanderkam says not every hour is ...

When Greg Ryan and his son came up with the technology to pasteurize water, they didn't know they would be leading the most important and lucrative subsector of the water industry.Perhaps no one understands the value of water better than ...