Marketing

YouTube

Creativity counts in hard times, so a mobile home business in Alabama decided to release a self-deprecating, hilarious ad on YouTube to attract customers. Click to watch the commercial and see why over 625,000 people have watched it after just a couple weeks.

BMW

Finding herself out of work and facing £400 ($655) rent payments, Debbie Davis, 29, from Sutherland, UK decided to turn her situation around and found such success that within five years, she's now making £250,000 ($409,639) a year, drives a Mercedes SLK and a BMW X3, and owns her own house. How, you may ask? By breaking out the makeup, of course.

Infusionsoft

We've all heard of companies that give their employee of the month the best parking space, but what about also throwing in a sports car and a $150 prepaid gas card? Apparently the plan worked. At the time, Infusionsoft had 30 employees. Now their ranks have swelled to 140.

The world-renowned capitalist extraordinaire is adding fashionista to his list of triumphs. This chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has been getting a lot of attention for his personal investments inlittle-known Chinese clothing line, Trands.

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A new group of small business entrepreneurs are taking the spotlight at Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County Jail. Inmates at this minimum security facility are brewing and selling their own line of hot sauces.

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Every entrepreneur, before they go into business, dreams of being captain of their own ship. Jake Robinson actually is one. Robinson borrowed an old, existing idea -- advertising by plane and boat -- and married a fairly new technology to it. Click to see his spin on advertising at the beach.

Door Number 3

Working for free can be good exposure, but as the old joke among independent contractors goes, you can die from too much exposure. Sometimes, however, working for free can make sense. Click to see how advertising agency Door Number 3 went pro bono and gained paying clients.

She is one of the most powerful people on the planet. She is beloved. She is admired. And she's suing at least fifty businesses along with some-times-guest Dr. Oz. Find out what these companies have done to make Oprah mad.