June 2001
Some Like It Hot
狗万官方and Dun & Bradstreet's 7th Annual Hot 100-the fastest-growing entrepreneurial businesses in America
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Soaring With Your Core
Your business's growth potential lies not in its margins, but in its foundation.
What's Going On?
This month: online help for small-biz owners, film financing and a competition for young female entrepreneurs
Go Local!
Competing online for worldwide customers is fine, but don't forget about those who still see you as the shop around the corner.
Cool Clicks 6/01
Stopping online fraud, memorable jingles on the cheap and finding out what employees are paid
It's a Crime
The law is giving more jail time for business decisions that harm employees and customers.
The Respect of Your Peers?
Peer-to-peer computing is coming, But is it good for your company?
Laser Tags
With prices falling quickly, you can afford to print beyond black and white.
Quiet, Please
Guess who's responsible when employees irresponsibly mix cell phone and vehicle use?
Girl School
What makes a young woman want to own a business? A little education will help.
No Strings Attached
The race is on for airlines to offer you wireless Internet connections at hub airports.
Money Buzz 6/01
Banks get the skinny on loan applicants, gold as the online currency of choice and employees' 401(k) trading activity
For Better or for Worse
Starting a business with your better half isn't like buying a couch together. Before you hang your shingle, make sure you've both got what it takes.
Lessons Learned
Believe it or not, you can start an e-biz without going down in flames. Our special report will help you start wisely.
One of the Good Guys
Prospects will reach for their cash once you prove you're on their side.
Marketing Buzz 6/01
Quick and easy ads from online providers and daddies as a target market
How to Reach New Markets
Want to bend your business in a better direction? Try a new market.
Going Once, Going Twice
Sold! Whether you're buying or selling stock, the IPO auction may be the best way for you to get a fair deal.
The Insider
Ever think there must be some secret trick to buying a franchise that you're not privy to? Luckily, our franchise expert is in the know . . . and he's ready to talk.
Get Comfy
OSHA may not be breathing down your neck yet, but making your workplace ergonomically sound may just be good business.
Management Buzz 6/01
Withholding wages for Uncle Sam and hiring teachers as part-time workers
Timed Travel
Ever been to a city with those loaner bicycles? What if a company rented automobiles that way?
Stop, Flop and Roll
If you thought playing music and storing data was flexible enough for CDs, wait till you see them bend.
Damn Yankees
American brands are sparking enduring trends abroad. So why do they hate us for it?
Call to Arms
Get your site-building software in marching order: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is domination of the World Wide Web!
Calling Out
Pull up an ergonomic chair and a headset-yes, you, too, could be telemarketing from home in no time.
The Shallow End
Don't start by diving into bigger markets-get your product's feet wet by finding a profitable niche.
The Party's Not Over
Lessons in prospering once the crowd has given up and gone home--because their party is over, and, yes, it's time to clean up.
What Now?
Have the days of making it on your own come and gone? A new breed of partnership may be the way of the future.
Get a Grip
In the dotcom world, if you haven't already fallen, you're hanging on by your fingernails. Here's how to put yourself on steady ground.
Global Gobbling
Restaurant franchises from all around the world could soon be just around the block from you.
Child's Play
Find some fairly well-off parents who want their tots taught--and plant a Gymboree of your own.
Take My IPO . . . Please!
Your public offering is dead in the water, and it doesn't look like the market will save it anytime soon. Now what?
Buzz Skill
Need a little good press? Forget those costly PR agencies--sharpen your own publicity-getting skills.
Tech Futures
The technology industry will never die--it'll just move on. And these cutting-edge businesses are on its itinerary.
Energy Buzz
The energy drink trend gives you entrepreneurial wings-that's no Red Bull.
Encore Performance
Practice makes perfect, but can it bring success in the world of dotcoms?
Fame Game
Fan see, fan do: Get your product into the hands of stars . . . and their devotees.
Rated E
The Fed's rate cuts are a boon for entrepreneurs. How do you plan to take advantage?
Cuttin' (Edge) Class
When teacher writes your name on the "smart board," is it a good or a bad thing?
A.W.O.L.
On the trail of Wayne Rogers (aka Trapper John), because we hear he's a "big businessman"
Way Out There?
Is telecommuting the office of the future or just a bad idea that comes and goes?
Here an Ad, There an Ad
Pitch customers where they live . . . and work . . . and talk . . . drink . . . walk . . .
Monky Business
Give us this day our daily fruitcake--yes, you can blend faith and business.
Bring Out Your Dead!
As the dotcom boom goes up in smoke, meet a guy who's profiting from the fire sale.
Watch Your Programs
Mom!!! George took my entrepreneurship funding-and he won't give it back!
The Tables Are Turning
Julie Gaines tells us her and her husband's tales of trekking cross-country in search of tableware, entering the international market-and holding their own against Macy's.
It Figures 6/01
How e-businesses are spending on tech, entrepreneurial attitudes, loan policies and more
New Wave
AM/FM not doing it for you? Your customers are surfing the Web now--sooner or later, they'll be listening to Internet radio.
Use the Force
Your sales force, that is, because you can't just sit there waiting for customers to find your Web site. You have to go find them.
Absolut Investment
With grant money from the vodka-maker, a dream is now half fulfilled.
Keep It Flowing
Entrepreneurs found an extra $1.5 billion worth of SBA financing in 2000 . . . and experts say that's a bad thing?
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