The 10 Critical Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Consultant

Talk to as many consultants as you can before hiring one. Even if you have one person or firm in mind, interview at least a few others as a sort of due diligence. You'll probably find that each interview helps you focus on the issues you're hiring a consult to help resolve.

Gaining Free Publicity Through Press Releases

One of the greatest ways to promote your product or service is with publicity. Many people have little, if any, understanding of how to go about securing publicity, never mind free publicity. Fact is, people will pay more attention to free publicity than they often do to paid advertising.

How Yahoo! Plans to Tackle Google

In the first part of our interview, Yahoo's Director of IT, Product Management and Search, Ken Norton, alluded to Yahoo's upcoming personalized search. Despite skepticism and uncertainty over this new area, Ken and his co-worker Grace Chan, Yahoo's Product Manager, seem very confident in Yahoo's ability to succeed in personalization.