Anyone who has gone ice fishing will likely recognize a tip-up flag system when they see it. If a fish nibbles, the flag pops up to alert the fisherman and the rest is history. However, the Hook-Set Tip-Up will not only alert someone to a fish bite but it will help set the hook and […]
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photo credit: Birdfreak.com Even though I live in a small town with only a small tourist-based economy, with the internet you’re never too remote to start a business. Ten Sleep, Wyoming, population 350, is just as wired as anywhere else and is home to a new business that is teaching English to South Koreans. Eleutian
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photo credit: RedGlow82 The key to success in a small business is to focus on your niche to the exclusion of all else. Too often, small business owners want to ne all things to all people, especially at the beginning when revenue is small and a potential clients asks if you can do something for
Gary Post Tribune: Crown Point’s Conservative Cafe is getting ready to go national. Cafe co-owner Bill McCall told the Post-Tribune on Monday the year-old coffee shop, which has garnered national attention with its clever political trappings, is about a month away from finalizing the legal framework to begin building a nationwide chain of franchise locations
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photo credit: pasotraspaso When I was a kid, my mother and most of my friend’s mothers worked outside of the home. My wife’s mother, on the other hand was a housewife. In those days, women who stayed home often supplemented the household income by making and selling crafts and tasty treats. Today stay at home
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Franchising.com: From the cradle to college, children’s lives greatly impact the tax situations of their families. Liberty Tax Service reminds you that for filing a 2008 tax return, there’s a change in the method in which children’s investments are taxed. Any child born on December 31st of 2008 or before can be claimed for the
photo credit: SqueakyMarmot There are proper way to cut costs in your business, because believe it or not, certain cuts are worse than no cuts at all. When cutting costs and looking the difficult choice of letting some people go, make sure your making the right choice for the better of the company. Rather then
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Fast Casual: Einstein Noah Restaurant Group Inc. is sticking to plans to grow mostly by adding licensed locations in 2009 as diners eat out less and credit markets remain tight, the company has announced. The fast-casual coffee and bagel chain said this month that it plans to open six to eight new restaurants on its
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KSN.com: In just days a new federal law goes into effect, which will virtually shut down the craft industry. The law, aimed at protecting children, requires all items for kids, including those made by local artisans, be tested for lead. The problem is that those tests are expensive and it’s sparked a class action lawsuit
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PR Web: Castle Ink’s CEO, Lauren Elward, is not your typical housewife. A mom by day, teacher by trade, and entrepreneur by night, there’s nothing typical about her. Five years ago Elward, when not creating lesson plans for the high school English classes that she was teaching, started to brainstorm and draw up business plans
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