Fortune Small Business: Like many retailers, Jim Hobart knows the value of a good testimonial. The online store he co-founded, AlpacaDirect.com, always offered a page full of cherry-picked customer comments raving about the site’s alpaca sweaters, socks and yarn. But recently Hobart, 47, decided to take the idea a step further: He hired PowerReviews, whose […]
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The Dallas Morning News: Ashley Roberts had the name set: Bridal Brilliance by Ashley. She’d filed her registration and ordered the business cards. She’d even found a way to advertise “Wedding Planner” on her car door. All she needed was to learn how to become one. Roberts attends a twice-weekly wedding planning class at Collin
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photo credit: whiteafrican The Power of Mobile Money at the Economist website discusses how banking via mobile phone is unleashing entrepreneurship in the Third World. These phones compensate for inadequate infrastructure, such as bad roads and slow postal services, allowing information to move more freely, making markets more efficient and unleashing entrepreneurship…With such phones now
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KOMO News: On a tree-lined street in the city’s Madison Park neighborhood filled with fancy cars and million-dollar homes, Jeff Soule stands out. “I used to live here,” he said. Soule is no longer a neighborhood resident, but he returned to his old neck of the woods in search of work. And he came prepared
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Franchising.net.au: Two food treat franchises within Allied Brands, Baskin Robbins and Cookie Man, have appointed an external company to handle their property searches and franchisee recruitment in Victoria as part of a major expansion into the state. Brand manager for both Cookie Man and Baskin Robbins, Jack Sakalis, told Franchising “We’re just trialling this in
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photo credit: jekert gwapo TargetStars blog: In order to be successful, you have to master the art of delegation. No one makes it to the top alone because success is the result of a team effort. Again, I am not trying to talk anyone out of attempting to tackle difficult tasks, but you have to
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Democrat and Chronicle: Pamela Hines was passing through the Rochester airport in April 2008 when she became fully aware of how fractured her life had become. As she was leaving on business, which she did on a weekly basis, a security employee told Hines that she was in the airport so often, he had come
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Fast Casual: Beautiful Brands International (BBI) has announced the addition of Dallas-based restaurant Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse to its portfolio of restaurants to market and franchise worldwide. The agreement marks the first and only fast casual barbecue restaurant to join Beautiful Brands. “Because of Sonny Bryan’s amazing barbecue and profitable business model, the franchising potential is
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Stress is a problem that everyone faces and it can have a very negative effect, especially on children. When her son was having a hard time going to sleep at night Lori Lite came up with a solution, a bedtime story that made use of proven relaxation techniques. That first story has since transformed into
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Los Angeles Business Journal Online: Herbalife Ltd. has gone far in fighting the old perception that it operates as a thinly veiled pyramid scheme. In recent years, it picked a high-profile Disney executive to be its chief executive, improved its diet and nutritional supplements, and changed the way it operates. But it looks as if
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