Return on Investment

Marketing

5 Signs You Need to Start Tracking Marketing ROI

The good news is that your marketing is likely making an impact. But you might not be measuring it as you should.

Marketing

Conversion Rates for the Most Popular Marketing Channels

Knowing the platforms that get other businesses their customers can help you benchmark your own progress and results.

Money & Finance

How to Determine the Value of Your Pre-Revenue Startup

Here are the formulas and turns of phrase the experts use to determine what your work is worth.

Marketing

The Only 2 Good Reasons to Work for Free

Sometimes by calculation, sometimes by inspiration, you know when waiving you fee is the best move.

Business News

Here's How to Really Measure the ROI of Your Content-Marketing Strategy

While the content is the fuel that powers the act of content marketing, it is the measurement of the content that ultimately decides whether it was an effective strategy.

Thought Leaders

The Biggest Blown Opportunity in Your Business

Most likely, someone in your organization is disengaged, and all their potential is falling through the gap. But there's a simple solution.

Data & Recovery

Is SEO a Necessary and Measurable Investment?

Any business with a website needs to be visible. There are four ways to determine if your efforts are worth the money.

Innovation

How Do You Bring Innovation to Market?

We asked some of the leading idea people in business to define how new products, technologies and commodities come into being.

Growing a Business

12 Restaurants Capitalizing on the Anti-Fast Food Revolution

It takes creativity to engineer a menu of fresh ingredients and healthy dishes – and then use that as the base of a successful business. Here are nutritious concepts transforming the fast-casual kitchen.

Buying / Investing in Business

Why Today's Bullish Economy Is Bad for VCs, But Good for You

A stable economy means less competition for scoring investment.

Fundraising

Why So Many Startups Never Reach Their Second Funding Round

Seed funding often gives a company more opportunities to fail, not succeed.

Business News

The Best Value in Higher Education

Princeton Review came out with their list of best value colleges, with UNC Chapel Hill and Williams College taking the tops spots.

Marketing

How 2014 Will Be The Year To Monetize Big Data

Big data will soon go from a technology investment to a marketing one. Use it as a tool to boost revenue.

Marketing

Why Spending on Big Data Isn't a Waste (Infographic)

Companies that harness big data for their marketing efforts show increases in both productivity and profit.

Buying / Investing in Business

Zombie VC Firms Can Be an Entrepreneur's Nightmare

Entrepreneurs, beware: When a VC firm shuts down, the obligation to deliver a return on the investment rarely goes away.