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Bookstores Tap Indie Vibe, Personalization, and Social Media to Romance Reading For Today’s Consumers

Despite doomsayer predictions, brick-and-mortar bookstores’ demise hasn’t come. In fact, local bookstores—and revived big-brand chains—are luring customers in with new incentives, merch, and cultivated communities.

How Military Vets Use Their Leadership Skills to Build Multimillion-Dollar Businesses

Veteran-owned startups have a higher rate of success, research shows, thanks in part to the problem-solving and teamwork skills they learn in the military, interviews with founders revealed.

How to Develop an Internship Program

Ready to hire interns for your small business? Follow these six steps to build a successful internship program that benefits interns and your business.

Creative Ideas for Summer Internship Tasks

Discover creative summer internship tasks that boost intern growth and deliver real business value, all while keeping engagement high.

Restaurant Chain PDQ Exec on Using (Labor-Saving) Self-Ordering Kiosks to Drive Sales

Kiosk technology boosts average order size, improves efficiencies, and more, says Bryan Groc, Senior Vice President of Data Analytics for the fast-casual chicken chain.

How Fast-Growing Oral Care Disruptor Ordo Broke into Big Retail

With its vision that everyone deserves high-quality, affordable (and fashionable) everyday oral care, the U.K. brand is making its presence known in U.S. mass merchants and drug chains.

Steps to Starting a New Business

Launching a new business is a labor of love. This guide will help you think through all that needs to happen before you make your first sale, plus the 90 days after you open.

How to Protect Your Business Name

Here’s how to protect your brand if another company takes your business name.

Trendy Startup PopUp Bagels’ New CEO on Its National Growth Strategy

The disruptor is betting on a highly efficient format for its “rip and dip” bagels that departs from typical quick-service chains as it expands, Tory Bartlett tells CO—.

Why This CEO Will Never Make His Employees Return to the Office

In this edition of “Ask the Board," we feature Kelly Roddy, CEO of WOWorks, which is home to six restaurant brands. He explains why he allows his workers to work remotely, rather than requiring them to come into an office.