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Here are six reasons to consider cutting your work week down a day while boosting company morale exponentially.

It's time to put away the golf clubs and pull out Google Reader: Sales are no longer just about personal relationships.

So you got a degree. Now it's time to face the realities of running a business, including these lessons you didn't learn in the classroom.

Self-made real-estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Group and personality on ABC's Shark Tank, talks about how she got her employees to go after big deals.

As a business owner, you may find yourself having more than a couple of heart-to-heart conversations with your mirror or dashboard as you work through your day. Hey, it’s lonely at the top–especially if the top, middle and bottom of your organization could all carpool to work in one car. These self-talks can be really healthy. You work out issues, let off steam and come up with ideas. However, some of these messages do damage when they become fiction. Here are three of the most common lies that owners tell themselves.

A million dollars is nothing to sneeze at. It's a lot of money, but is it enough to retire on? Or is it way too much? It's a lot easier to plan for a concrete end goal. That's probably how the million-dollar benchmark for retirement savings got so popular. It's a memorable number -- and an assumption that does indeed serve a lot of people's financial plans well. Assumptions can be dangerous, though. So before you spend the next 10 or 30 years over- or under-saving, take a little time to assess your situation. Start right now to see if a million bucks is enough -- or too much -- to fund your future plans.

Three years ago, only 54% of small businesses had websites. Now 82% do. But lots of them have no idea how to use Google's most valuable ad tool. So the search giant is launching a slew of services and products to make AdWords easier.

0ne of the premier financial institutions in the United States, as well as the world, is Morgan Stanley (MS). Morgan Stanley,combined with majority owned Smith Barney, has more than $1.7 trillion assets under management. Of this $1.7 trillion, $268 billion is managed by Morgan Stanley's Investment Management team. On the other hand, Primerica (PRI), is a much smaller and less prestigious financial institution. Primerica has about $691 billion in assets under management, including $35 billion in Primerica's investment accounts.

A web design is made up of various components, all working together to accomplish a goal – whether it be building a community or selling a product. These parts must compliment each other in a way that creates a good experience for the user. Miss the mark on one element and potential subscribers or sales could be lost, but execute correctly on all parts and chances are you will have created an effective web design. Here’s an infographic that helps break it down for you.

The widening gulf between the rich and everyone else is a growing source of tension in America. A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds the income gap is now seen as a bigger source of conflict in the U.S. than race, age or national origin. That's why some believe the issue could matter in the presidential campaign, and others worry it could warp the national debate.

Soon, you'll be able to use Facebook in your Mercedes-Benz. (You roll in a Benzo, right?) Is Facebook suffering from "mission creep"?

If you take a look at the top 10 Twitter users you'll see a list of famous men and women, from Justin Bieber to Selena Gomez, who have used the popular platform to further expand their personal brands. Perhaps more interesting, however, is how everyday people are investing more time and energy into social networking for professional purposes.

Inflation, especially in food and other essentials, has been rampant over the last few years—and to make ends meet, desperate workers sometimes take drastic measures. In the US, it’s the opposite. Since 2000, real wages (adjusted for inflation) have declined. The White House even touts this horrid statistic in its paper, Investing in America: Building an Economy That Lasts.

Adam Katz is happy to talk to reporters when he is promoting his business, a charter flight company based on Long Island called Talon Air. But when the subject was his position as one of America’s top earners, he balked. Seated at a desk fashioned from a jet fuel cell, wearing a button-down shirt with the company logo, he considered the public relations benefits and found them lacking: “It’s not very popular to be in the 1 percent these days, is it?”