When Kylie Jenner sold a controlling stake in her four-year-old makeup startup to French beauty conglomerate Coty in November for $600 million at a $1.2 billion valuation, the 22-year-old CEO emerged a billionaire. The sale of Kylie Cosmetics was...

Online retail has always been a crowded market, and thanks to the plethora of free website builders, it’s more competitive than ever before. If you’re entering a niche that already has a dozen entities fighting for dominance, you’re going to get lost in the white noise. And even...

A year ago, Brian Carroll got the shock of his life. After four years working as a salesman at a local car dealership, he walked in one morning to find out he was being let go. "The news came from left field," said Carroll. "Totally unexpected. The owner came up to me and said...

Whenever my clients are hesitant about raising their prices I like to ask, "What would happen if you charged ten times more?" It serves a couple of purposes: first, it gets you out of the myopic view of your current situation and second, it encourages you to think bigger. You don't need to...

Meet Beverly. She's worked at UPS for 10 years. She has one to two kids and is earning $40,000 to $50,000 per year. She has limited or no access to credit and can't handle an unexpected expense of more than $500. And her fridge just broke...

Back in March, eBay offered a lifeline to the small town brick-and-mortar shops that have suffered as retail sales have shifted online. The company said it would target about 100 small businesses in towns like Akron, Ohio, and Lansing, Michigan, and teach them how to sell online via a year-long program dubbed Retail Revival...

Warby Parker has always had its eyes on the future. Yet when the eyeglass company first launched in 2010, naysayers thought its direct-to-consumer model eschewing traditional retail channels seemed, well, shortsighted. "We got a lot of advice from people that said...

Sure, the holidays are great — unless you happen to be hosting about five more people than you originally anticipated, the turkey gets dry and the mall runs out of the perfect gift you'd been eyeing for your best friend. Take a deep breath (and a generous sip of eggnog) — we've got ten items that are guaranteed to loosen your white-knuckled grip on that roll of wrapping paper you're clutching.

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Ordering a gin and tonic at The Ritz-Carlton, Macau is quite the affair. First, Giuseppe Carillo rolls the Five-Star hotel’s heaving gin trolley over to your group. Then...

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China and his pronouncements about tariffs have been rocking the stock market and investors. Now...

Influencers are far from losing marketing power. According to the State of Influencer Marketing 2019 report, 320 platforms and influencer marketing agencies have been created since May of 2018, and brands are still seeing...

Right now, there’s a notable sales tax trend sweeping through states. And if your company hasn’t been impacted yet, it will be soon. States are changing their tune on who can pay sales tax on purchases. Many have passed laws allowing...

To cut costs whenever and wherever possible, your finance staffers must be able to recognize purchases that qualify for sales and use tax exemptions. But that’s easier said than done.   Even B.J. Pritchett, president of Pritchett Sales & Use Tax Consulting, admits that...

The percentage of total retail sales attributed to ecommerce has been growing with each passing quarter for years. That healthy market is good news, but...

All in all, 2018 was a happy holiday for retailers across the US. According to Mastercard SpendingPulse, retail spending from November 1 through December 24 increased 5% from 2017, its best growth in six years. Online shopping in particular increased...

The outlines of the future of the auto industry are becoming clearer as recent news developments underscore determinative trends that finally are reaching critical mass. These trends include...

What started off as a strong holiday shopping season ended with a whimper, as consumers, rattled by a trade war and a government shutdown, tightened their belts. The Commerce Department said...

Not long ago -- three months to be exact -- Amazon's giant HQ2 project was considered a national prize. The largest e-commerce company in the world had planned to create a second major campus outside its Seattle mothership as it worked toward even more expansion. City leaders across the country clamored for the attention of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in their quest to land the $5 billion development and its promise of 50,000 high-paying jobs. Then...