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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways B2B customer experience is reaching an inflection point as buyer expectations rise, service channels multiply and AI reshapes how teams operate. Yet many organizations are still relying on outdated systems, siloed data and reactive support models. To stay competitive, B2B teams must modernize their CX strategy, unify customer context and prepare for a faster, more intelligent era of customer engagement. Something has shifted in the last two years, and I do not think the industry has fully caught up to it yet. For a long time, the central question in…

Published July 9, 2026 02:41PMA black bear attacked a campsite in Wyoming’s Bighorn National Forest in early July, ignoring attempts by two campers and their four dogs trying to scare the animal away. Now, experts say the bear’s unusual behavior signals its comfort with humans and could become a dangerous problem in the future.On July 5, two women, Shonna Dehl and Maggie Basset, were camping near Fool Creek, a scenic drainage in the northern part of the forest. Although the duo had no food or scented items in their tent, the bear tore into their tent in the middle of…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When my brother and I created our roofing business, we discovered an opportunity to educate other members of the industry and provide resources to help them improve their services — a dealer network. Establishing this dealer network helped us give back to our community and taught us valuable lessons about empowerment. It taught us that setting people up for success means providing resources (like training), that valuable partnerships depend on mutual benefit and that oversight isn’t the same as surveillance. Most founders who eventually find success remember their major accomplishments.…

The new HOKA Clifton PRO is for runners who put in the workHOKA Clifton PRO (Photo: HOKA)Published July 9, 2026 01:57PMYou don’t have to be a “serious” runner to take running seriously. You just have to be passionate about reaching your potential. The brand-new HOKA Clifton PRO was built for runners who push themselves to do better and need a shoe that can help them do it. The Clifton PRO is a high-performance trainer for runners who strive to get the most out of themselves, day in and day out. It’s for those who look forward to track workouts, grind…

Key Takeaways Leaked internal planning documents reveal that Amazon is working on a new Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to further enhance the voice assistant’s capabilities. Moonraker permits Alexa to carry out multi-step actions from a single request, such as “book me a ride and text my friend.” The Moonraker AI upgrade has become one of the most costly parts of Amazon’s next Alexa+ revamp, reportedly costing more than $100 million in AI chips this year. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed in his annual shareholder letter earlier this year that Alexa, the company’s voice assistant, has “scale and a very large…

These activity-specific travel insurance plans cover your adventures ahead, wherever they lead youListen to this articleListen (Photo: SOVENTURE)Published July 9, 2026 11:10AMYou probably have car insurance for the type of vehicle you drive. The same is true for travel insurance: It should cover the specific activities on your itinerary. If you’re traveling halfway across the world to enjoy a carefully planned outdoor experience—skiing Japan powder, climbing the Alps, rafting in Patagonia—you deserve to be present in the moment, not worrying about what could go wrong. SOVENTURE has your back with adventure travel insurance plans that cover specific sports and scenarios.…

Published July 9, 2026 09:45AMThere are media outlets out there that publish “buyer’s guides” for the best coolers without actually trying said coolers in real life, or timing how long each cooler retains ice when left in the boiling sun, or dropping a cooler off a cliff to see how durable it actually is. Outside is not one of those outlets. Here, we don’t recommend a single piece of gear without first subjecting it to rigorous testing in the field and in the Outside Lab.This summer, our editors, category managers, and testers ran more than 600 products through the wringer—up…

Rob Lea, the first person to complete both the Seven Summits and Oceans Seven, swears by a 125-year-old cow udder salve to survive 11+ hours in salt water.Caroline Gleich coats Rob Lea in zinc oxide cream before his 12-hour swim across the Tsugaru Strait, part of his record-setting Double Seven Challenge. (Photo: @carolinegleich on Instagram)Published July 9, 2026 08:02AMCompleting the Double Seven Challenge—an epic years-long quest to climb the Seven Summits and swim the Oceans Seven—requires a finely tuned gear kit with stress-tested equipment, backups of backups, and a staggering amount of liquid food. But when Rob Lea completed the…

Published July 9, 2026 03:59AMOn May 19, 2026, Stevan Pearce was sworn in as the 20th director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the federal agency responsible for managing more public land (245 million acres) than any other federal agency.Unlike previous BLM directors, who came from land-management agencies or state environmental and natural-resources posts, Pearce is a former U.S. Congressman. He represented New Mexico’s 2nd District for 14 years. Prior to that, he owned an oilfield-services business with his wife. He also served in the U.S. Air Force, where he logged more than 500 combat hours as a pilot…

Published July 9, 2026 03:00AMOn the longest solo trip of my life, I stepped off a two-seat float plane onto the rocky shore of Upper Twin Lake in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park.I had taken four flights from New Jersey to Alaska to write about the iconic cabin handbuilt by Richard “Dick” Proenneke, the self-taught naturalist whose 30-year solo life in the wilderness was captured in the beloved PBS documentary Alone in the Wilderness. Proenneke never married, never had children, and spent nearly three decades completely alone, save for the birds he fed by hand and bears that occasionally clawed…