So you’ve started a blog to begin content marketing for your company or personal site, but it’s not quite yet a traffic-generating machine. You post biweekly. One month goes by and…only 600 visitors. Another month of regular posting and still barely linear growth. Four months later, not much change. You start to wonder if your […]

Always rearranging your living spaces? Obsessed with houzz.com? Know what colors work together, and how to coordinate your throw pillows? You might want to consider a career in interior design. And guess what? The outlook for this industry is good. Employment of interior designers is predicted to be growing at a higher rate than average, […]

If you can catch Troy Carter’s attention, there’s a good chance that you’re about to hit it big. After all, he was an early investor in a long list of companies—Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, and Warby Parker, to name a few—that did just that. How does he know an idea is a winner? “You know it’s […]

Podcasting is incredibly popular these days—just like back in 2004 to 2005, after Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast hit it big. But he was a former MTV VJ, after all. We can’t all have such amazing credentials that will propel us to podcasting stardom. So how exactly did podcasting make a comeback a decade […]

Baffled and disappointed that nobody seems interested in your company’s story? Your competitors seem to have all the luck, garnering features in blogs and magazines, while the best you get is a lousy mention in a longer article. I’ve been working in PR for years now, and have a few things to share about why […]

When Matthew Growney let his three kids use his iPad, he came across some troubling scenarios. “My daughter and son would type in ‘Super Mario Bros’ and a spoof would pop up with profanity,” Growney says. “It was a clip of guys yelling the F-word to Mario.” So Growney created Fable, a tablet that looks […]

Changing Your Business Model Entrepreneur Robert Reffkin knows what it’s like to turn around a business that’s in dire straits. With Compass, he had to help guide the company through several changes of direction and a couple of high-profile lawsuits. After Compass launched in 2013, Reffkin and the New York-based real estate platform’s team decided […]

On Mindy Seegal Abovitz’s 21st birthday, her best friend left a trail of small gifts throughout her A-frame home in Gainesville, Florida: a sweater from a nearby thrift store, then “some sort of weird, raw cookie” that Stephanie, better known as “Scoot,” had been making at the time. At the end of the trail were […]