WNYT.com: With many sectors of our economy struggling, at least one seems to be flourishing — direct or home-based marketing. It’s called network marketing, and those who are doing it say it’s recession-proof. “I kind of saw the writing on the wall and knew there was a really good chance I wouldn’t have a job […]
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Montana’s News Station: A Missoula-based Internet company recently launched “Pet Living Wills” as a way to protect your favorite dog, cat or goldfish when you are not there. If you could speak on behalf of your pets, what would you say is a question MaryEllen Campbell asked when a horse she was watching for a
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Telegraph.co.uk: Since 2002 Tom Burrough, 43, has reinvented himself not once but twice: from well-paid advertising executive to stay-at-home father, and now, as the founder of a baby food company, launched from his kitchen table. In 2003 Burrough came up with the idea for Burrough’s Baby Food. He has always loved cooking, and remembers making
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The Wall Street Journal: Even though gift-giving was relatively stingy this Christmas season, enough stuff changed hands to generate plenty of leftover trash. And that means good tidings for the artists who transform cast-offs into commodities. Curbsides and trash bins are suddenly overflowing with bags, boxes and other booty that will become the raw material
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MSNBC: They say when you love what you do for a living, you never have to work a day in your life. Take a business that involves being surrounded by video games all day and it’s pretty much a lock. In 2000, Ron Simpson got hooked on video games while enjoying them with his kids.
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Suburban Life Publications: Start out right for your business in 2009 with SCORE: Counselors to America’s Small Business.” SCORE provides a resource page called “Small Business Smart Start Tools”. This content area offers valuable resources for assessing your business, organizing your workplace and planning for success. Browsers will find the following tips and tools: –
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Franchise Key: Jani-King, one of the world’s largest commercial cleaning franchises, recently announced that it has once again been ranked the fourth-largest franchise company in the United States by Franchise Times. Furthermore, it has moved up from the 7th position to 6th for the number of total units which includes both its domestic and international
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PR-USA.net: Pizza Patron, the premier Latino pizza brand, opened their first Quick Service Pizza (QSP) outlet in San Antonio, Texas. The restaurant is located at 3116 Nogalitos in a densely-populated and heavily Hispanic residential community in the South/Central area of the city. The new QSP outlet shattered all previous opening sales records and became the
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Three franchises owned by Clockwork Home Services Inc. were ranked among the nation’s top 500 for 2009 by Entrepreneur magazine. The Sarasota-based company’s One Hour Air Conditioning & Heating, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing and Mister Sparky America’s On-time Electrician made the list compiled for the magazine’s January issue. One Hour was 163rd, Benjamin Frankling
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Franchising.com: Leading greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection has today announced the launch of its new product: Carrie Bags. The innovative, new shopping bags fold-up into their own specifically designed pouch and fit easily into a handbag, therefore reducing the need to use plastic carriers at retail checkouts. However, unlike the supermarket equivalent the
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