Amber Riviere fell into entrepreneurship naturally because she had a talent that other people were willing to pay money for.
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Franchising.com: Chili’s(R) Grill & Bar announced the opening of a new location in Tanglin Mall in Singapore. Marking the 28th country outside the U.S. for Chili’s, this new opening is part of a larger agreement with franchisee Grandko Restaurants to open four new restaurants by 2011 in Singapore. The Tanglin opening will bring 100 new
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Balkans.com Business News: Toronto-based Coffee Time a popular coffee-shop chain, has entered the Bulgarian market after signing a franchising accord with Greek-owned Welcome Holdings AD, which is based in Bulgaria and recently joined the Sofia bourse (www.bse-dofia.bg). Welcome Holdings AD has begun negotiations with the Canadian firm to open the first cafe under the Coffee
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smallbizbee: I hear this a lot, “do you think my idea is good enough to start a business?”…and normally what people mean is “do you think I’ll make money doing this?”. The short answer is- most ideas you can think of are good enough to start a business around — in short you can probably
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เดà¸à¸° เนชั่น: Businessmen, including franchise-owners, should expand into Vietnam, because it is a new emerging market with disposable income, says a senior officer in the Department of Export Promotion. Restaurants, spas and car-care services in particular can expect a warm welcome from the Vietnamese. Pranita Kurdpikul, a senior trade officer in the department’s Service Trade
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SmashingApps: Onyaka is an online staff time planning software service that takes all the pain out of staff scheduling. Onyaka provides you with easy to use staff scheduling software, with no downloads, no expensive license fees, and no installation hassle. It has a simple drag and drop interface and you can use all of the
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Wichita Business Journal: The largest independent franchisee for Value Place LLC says it has pulled back on construction of the extended-stay hotels as credit has dried up. “Everybody’s really stopped in terms of development cycles,†says Bill Johnston, chief operating officer for Maitland, Fla.-based Liberty Lodging LLC. The company has plans to build 100 Value
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photo credit: DavidErickson We have all seen a number of logos whether it be on billboard signs, products, doors of a company, flyer’s and more, we have all at some point stopped and said to ourselves “why on earth would you pick that for your logo?” Logos can do wonderful things for your company if
Loveland Connection: Twitter and other social media sites are easy to get addicted to; just ask entrepreneur Angie Shafranek. “Ha, I’m on it like five times a day,” Shafranek admitted when asked how often she uses Twitter. However, that Twitter habit has given a boost to her online children’s clothing business, Shafranek said. She went
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A reader, Paul Rusnak, wrote in with the following account of his failed attempt at marketing: I am a subscriber of you weblog and I enjoy reading all the stories, many of which give me new ideas to market my business. Here is something that happened to one of my creative marketing ideas… that didn’t
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