Archive for January 7th, 2005
Entrepreneur Magazine 2005 Franchise 500
Entrepreneur magazine’s 2005 Franchise 500 is out. The top 20: Subway Curves Quizno’s Franchise Co., The Jackson Hewitt Tax Service The UPS Store Sonic Drive In Restaurants Jani-King 7-Eleven Inc. Dunkin’ Donuts RE/MAX Int’l. Inc. KFC Corp. ServiceMaster Clean McDonald’s Jiffy Lube Int’l. Inc. Liberty Tax Service Domino’s Pizza LLC Kumon Math & Reading Centers [...]
Business 2.0: What the website is seeing is a lot of traffic. According to the company’s founder and CEO, Matt Rutledge, Woot gets about 100,000 hits a day and has seen exponential growth since its July launch. The holiday season was good for Woot too, bringing with it a few 200,000-hit days. “We were savvy [...]
Computerize Your Accounting Now
Canada.com: There are many financial aspects of your business that should be looked at early in the year. One of the most basic has to do with bookkeeping – if you’re not computerized, this is the time to do it, and if you’re already keeping electronic accounts but want to change your software, now is [...]
Dr. Jeffrey R. Cornwall: “I would recommend being very careful about buying franchises in any of these areas at this point. Because they are “hot” means they will be pricy. If a franchise is over priced, it can hurt the entrepreneur’s chances for success by using too much precious start-up capital for fees that go [...]
Online Business Opportunity: You have knowledge and information in your head that other people want – you just don’t realize it! Most people take their own knowledge for granted and assume that “everyone knows what I know.” This simply isn’t true, and once you realize that you have a lot to teach others you can [...]
BusinessWeek: The man who introduced Subaru to the U.S. is at it again. This time car importer Malcolm Bricklin wants to bring cheap Chinese autos to North America. On Jan. 3, Bricklin’s Visionary Vehicles announced it would be setting up a local distribution network for Chinese carmaker Chery. By 6 p.m. that day, Bricklin tells [...]
Henry Ford: “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.” via Wizard of Ads
“Millionaire’s Tax” Hurts Small Businesses
Law & Entrepreneurship News: A “millionaire’s tax” is a state tax levied on a individual after their earnings exceed a certain threshold (i.e. an extra 2.6% tax on every dollar earned over $500,000 as enacted in the State of New Jersey). California has recently adopted a version of the millionaire’s tax following other states like [...]
