Archive for 2005
→ checkers.com In August 1999, Checkers® merged with Rally’s Hamburgers, Inc. making it the nation’s largest double drive-thru restaurant chain. As of March 25, 2002, Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. and its Franchisees own and operate 795 Restaurants comprised of 409 Checkers® restaurants located primarily in the Southeastern United States, and approximately 386 Rally’s® restaurants located [...]
→ paintmedic.com Paint Medic is a Unique and Exciting Opportunity in the Automotive Aftermarket Business. Paint Medic specialize in minor paint repairs such as; paint and paint repair, plastic bumper repairs and repainting, minor dents, alloy wheel repair and painting as well as paint protection. As of June 23, 2003, there were nearly 223 million [...]
→ expressoil.com In the late 1940s, Jim Lunceford, founder of Express Oil Change, saw a vast future in the automobile service industry. From a service station manager to the owner of an entire city block of comprehensive service facilities, he sought better ways to help automobile owners care for their vehicles. Born in the 1970′s, [...]
Bates International Motorhome Rental Systems
→ batesintl.com Bates, in business since 1973, extends your expectation in quality and service through our network of locations in the United States and Canada. Bates mission is dedicated to provide quality, cost-effective RV products, with excellent service in the markets served. To enhance and expand the motor home rental industry on a global scale. [...]
→ shinefactory.ca The Shine Process produces a finish that, when applied to the surface of an automobile, revitalizes and protects the vehicle’s shine and finish. Shine Factory Sealant is NOT A WAX. In fact, conventional wax is about the only thing that will cause a high gloss to become dull. Pollutants and chemicals in the [...]
→ speedytransmission.com Speedy Transmission is a multi-state transmission franchise network, established in 1974. Speedy Transmission Centers provide transmission rebuilding and repair services for automatic and standard transmissions of domestic and foreign cars and trucks. In addition to individual vehicle owners, clients include business car and truck fleets and municipal and county government fleets. Today most [...]
→ saftauto.com Founded in 1978, SAF-T Auto Centers have provided auto technicians a profitable means to earn an independent living doing what they do best–repair cars. SAF-T Auto Centers is an owner-operated auto repair franchise. The services they offer to their customers include steering, suspension, brakes, exhaust, lubrication, tune-ups and minor repairs. Because of the [...]
OilStop-Drive Thru Oil Change Centers
→ oilstopinc.com Oilstop’s roots are in a Medford, Oregon, car wash that was started in 1978 and an oil change store established in 1984. The Oilstop Mission Statement is the foundation on which the company’s success is based. Very simply, “They will serve people with excellence, humbly, with a servant’s heart” embodies the standard to [...]
Dave Stone: “Many MLMs teach a ‘high-hype’ approach whereby you are trained to move quickly through your prospects. I compare it to the character in the Dr. Seuss book, The Sneetches. The carpetbagger mentality is what I believe has given MLMs the poor public perception.”
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law
Craig C. Bradley reviewing on Amazon: “This book is such a fabulous resource that I use it as my primary textbook for the M.B.A. course I teach at Kellogg entitled ‘Business Law for Entrepreneurs.’ All my new client entrepreneurs receive a hearty recommendation, and if that doesn’t work, a plea, to read this insightful and [...]
Thinking Home Business: I’m blogging this because for any business, whether home based or more grand, there are usually competitors out there quite happy to take our customers. It doesn’t make sense to drive them away just because we are feeling a bit down on the world on a particular day. Much better to go [...]
Idea: Make Winter Crash Videos
Dan Sherman: “If you have a particularly bad intersection in your area that gets a little dicey during snow or ice storms, next time you have one, take your video camera to the corner and some warm clothing and essentially camp out at the intersection with your camera trained on the intersection. If it’s a [...]
Small Business Pitches In For Tsunami Victims
Gladys Edmund in USA Today: “Days before President George W. Bush called former Presidents Clinton and Bush together to help raise awareness for disaster relief, entrepreneurs from every corner in the world were digging deep into their pockets and using creative resources to help survivors of the tsunami. I have received e-mails apprising me of [...]
Angel Investor Matching Services
Paul Allen: “FundingUtah.com is now in beta testing mode. Utah entrepreneurs can post their business summary and even have their own blog (about their startup company). Interested angel investors can learn about businesses that are seeking capital and can initiate contact with the entrepreneurs.”
Inc.com: Luck is a part of life, and everyone, at one point or another, gets lucky. Luck is also a big part of business life and perhaps the biggest part of entrepreneurial life. At the very least, entrepreneurs must believe in luck. Ideally, they can recognize it when they see it. And over time, the [...]
IFA: When franchisees Brad and Risa May first began to explore the options available to them for their Goddard School franchises, they assumed they would be leasing their buildings. Instead, they were delighted to find out they could finance and build their own facilities using long-term financing available through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 504 [...]
Entrepreneur: States have different names for the same permits or licenses: Resale Permit/License, Sellers Permit, Certificate of Authority, Use and Sales Tax License/Permit Sales and Use Tax, Application to Collect/Report Tax, Transaction Privilege (Sales) Tax, Resale Certificate—all adding up to much the same thing. Beyond the wholesale vs. retail concerns, the other aspect of these [...]
Heritage Foundation: “Long a symbol of economic prosperity, America for the first time no longer ranks among the top 10 free nations of the world, according to The 2005 Index of Economic Freedom, just released by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal.” NewsMax has more: The Index of Economic Freedom, published by The [...]
Blogger/Entrepreneur Reflects on Growth
Jeff Cornwall: “I visited an interesting blog site today called Reflections of a Business-Driven Life. It is written by a technology entrepreneur from the Philippines. His post from January 4th on growth was particularly insightful. A great new site for me to visit in the New Year.”
Salesprocessdiva: If you can’t be first, create a new subcategory in which you can be first. For example, who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean? Lindbergh, of course. Who was the second? No one knows, even though Number 2 presumably flew faster and more efficiently. Who was the third? Amelia Earhart. [...]
What It Really Means To Work for Yourself
Small Business Blog: You don’t need to be the guy that creates something new. You don’t need to be ready to change the world. According tho this article, “It’s also not true that you need to be an entrepreneurial, risk-taking visionary. These qualities are an asset, not a basic requirement.” This is a business myth. [...]
Boston.com: Pure entrepreneurs are loopy and obsessed. They have a vision of the future, and while others are casting their lines into the water to see what will bite, pure entrepreneurs are jumping over the gunwales and swimming after the white whale. via Scott Loftesness.
David St. Lawrence: “The ideal jobs are those that prepare you for long-term job security as your own boss.” via microISV
E-Myth Mastery : The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company
Amazon: “Building on the groundbreaking principles of The E-Myth Revisited, this book presents a practical, real-world program that can be implemented in real time in your business. Developed over decades with thousands of successful clients, Gerber’s program for entrepreneurial mastery takes the popular E-Myth point of view to its completion. Beginning with the vitality of [...]
→ acscorp.us ACS International collects on delinquent accounts, judgments, notes, liens, open accounts, credit cards and checks. Today’s debtors are more sophisticated than ever before. The fair debt collections practices act favors the debtor more than the business owner, and they know it. This leads businesses to become frustrated with internal collection processes and lost [...]
→ wackybear.com Wacky Bear Factory is a unique, interactive toy store that lets you stuff, fluff and dress your one-of-a-kind treasure. When you select an animal from Wacky Bear, it’s so much more than picking one out of a pile, because you actually put it together yourself. Whether it’s for yourself or to give as [...]
→ fastbucks.com At FastBucks, business is booming. They specialize in offering payday loans, which allow customers to borrow against future paychecks for emergencies or other short-term cash needs. Payday loan stores across North America have more than tripled in the past ten years and FastBucks has become an integral part of this recession-proof industry. FastBucks [...]
Go Into Business Removing Bumper Stickers
Dan Sherman: How many cars do you see now with the 2004 election bumper stickers on their backside? I see LOTS of them. They’re everywhere. I was smart enough to put my Bush/Cheney sticker on my back window. Putting them on the window allows for a much easier removal. But what about those poor saps [...]
The Journal News: For those who feel their handshaking ability may be lacking, Holland offers these tips: Business is gender neutral. Don’t wait for a woman to extend her hand or vice versa. A good handshake results in full contact. Don’t just grab the tips of someone’s fingers. It sends a condescending message to women [...]
Crime Scene Cleanup Business Booming
Wiggin and Dana’s Franchise Law Blog: “Here’s a concept that can’t miss. There are companies whose principal business is to clean residences or lodging facilities that have been the site of a grisly death — often by suicide or murder. Tragic Solutions and Aftermath, two companies that have pledged themselves to the cleanup of crime/death [...]
Startup Journal: Tax-deductible business expenses are fairly straightforward. Whatever is ordinary –meaning that similar businesses would incur this expense — and necessary for operating your business is likely to fall into the deductible category. Office equipment, business-telephone line, advertising, stationery and business cards are some of the obvious expenditures. As a sole proprietor (meaning you [...]
Lucky or Smart? : Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life
Amazon: “For anyone looking to spend an hour or so conversing one-on-one with a successful Internet entrepreneur, Peabody has put his end of that conversation in writing. As founder of a startup, Tripod, Inc. — and a reaper of pre-Internet Bubble riches — Peabody graciously provides his thoughts on how and why he’s been so [...]
Ways to fix your life: Quit your job
Yahoo! News: In some ways, now is a better time than ever to quit. “If you’ve been at one company for too long, corporate America figures that you are a dud,” says Barbara Sher, author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. “Companies are not loyal to employees anymore. Nobody [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Management Craft.
→ dunnbros.com Since 1987, Dunn Bros Coffee houses have been serving the freshest and best tasting coffee around. Dunn Bros accomplishes this by roasting its coffee “fresh daily” in each of their stores. Whether you are purchasing by the pound or by the drink, you will discover the “Fresh Roasted Means Better Coffee” experience. Most [...]
→ javakai.com The best Hawaiian Kona coffee and other tasty Hawaii blends are fresh made and brought to you from Hawaii’s own Java Kai. Java Kai brings the warmth, taste and Aloha Spirit to you, even if you’re not in Kauaii. It’s the combination of year round warm, sunny weather, rich volcanic soil, clean tropical [...]
