[ad_1] Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » A new employee is a new employee and talent development is talent development. It’s all HR’s domain, right? Wrong, at least when it comes to sales. Whether you’re starting, growing or running your business, …

[ad_1] Elon Musk, the chairman and chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla as well as Uber Technologies CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick and PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi have joined U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s advisory council, Trump’s transition team said on Wednesday. The group, which includes numerous other top …

[ad_1] Few sentences are more frustrating for a salesperson to hear than, “I want to think it over.” Every salesperson knows the pain of this open-ended response. It can cause the sales process to drag on indefinitely with no clear resolution — even after what seemed to be a perfectly …

[ad_1] This story appears in the December 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Hey, everyone in my imaginary office. Gather round. I have some new holiday rules for you all to follow. Here we go: General cheer is OK. Merriment will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The occasional burst …

[ad_1] As tech company executives prepare to meet with President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday in New York City, many of their employees are pledging to resist something Trump has backed: a database of all Muslims in the US. Hundreds of software engineers, chief technology officers, web developers and others from Google, Apple, Microsoft and …

[ad_1] Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » Any new business owner is full of doubts, if not about the financial situation of the company, then at least its long-term success. When you start out facing an empty client roster, there’s a lot …

[ad_1] This may surprise you, but Sal Khan used to skip classes at MIT. They were too long and boring, he often thought, particularly lectures. “I found it much more valuable to learn the material at my own time and pace,” he says. “I learned a lot more going into …

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. said it had its best-ever holiday season, shipping more than 1 billion items worldwide through its Prime membership program. The company said on Tuesday more than 72 percent of its customers worldwide shopped through mobile devices, adding that Dec. 19 was the busiest shopping day this holiday …

[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg will not be the next President of the United States. The Facebook founder and CEO told BuzzFeed News that “no,” he does not have any plans to run for Commander in Chief. “I’m focused on building our community at Facebook and working on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,” he said on …

[ad_1] In his book Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Website, SEO and online marketing expert Jon Rognerud shows you how to build a high-performance website and get top ranking on all search engines. In this edited excerpt, the author offers some tips on how you can improve your links by …