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In Linda Smith's business, a poor credit score can torpedo a customer's ability to snag a home loan. The problem: Most consumers are clueless about credit scores. "They have no...

Titanium has prolonged people's lives and made space travel possible, but here's what really captures the public's attention: lower golf scores. Oversize, easy-to-swing drivers help the rest of us hit...

Just about every sales worker knows what it's like when old customers stop buying, prospects don't return phone calls and the new product lineup isn't taking off. Sales slumps happen...

When Mark Pollack was growing up, his father would come home from work at the same time every night, dinner would be served on schedule and evenings would be devoted...

Sales workers on the job hunt used to market themselves by writing a business letter and composing a resume. If they wanted to bring attention to themselves, they might print...

Any word-association game might join "salesman" and "traveling." But few sales workers go door to door these days, and those that do aren't all men. Still, sales reps have a...

Thomas A. Hulsey loves to see his dream car, a Lexus RX300 sport-utility vehicle, parked outside his home. And that's exactly where he wants it to stay--until gas prices drop....

Investors who want to juice up their sagging stock portfolios probably need look no further than to those who sell the juice -- electric utility companies. These companies are hot,...

It might be called "The Spy Who Came in from the Code," and the latest Internet privacy flap would surely give novelist John Le Carre a run for his plotline....

When he was an investment banker working with San Diego's mass transit system about 10 years ago, Rick Aland devised a way to buy rail cars at a discount. By...