October 13, 2009

Carteret Moms Open Mexican Franchise In Edison

Scarlet Scuttlebutt: The blip in the economy didn’t stop two friends — Pinky Kaur and Charan Singh — from plunging into the restaurant business and opening a Panchero’s Mexican Grill at 2688 Woodbridge Ave. on Sept. 15. Singh, a former human resource specialist and stay-at-home-mom, and Kaur, an advertising representative for IndiaPost newspaper, have been […]

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TaxAssist Accountants Opens 90th Shop-Front Office

The Franchise Magazine: Accountancy and taxation for small businesses franchise TaxAssist Accountants has announced the launch of its 90th shop-front office in Newport under franchise owner John Thomas. John, who joined TaxAssist Accountants in January, said: “When I joined TaxAssist Accountants I immediately saw the benefits of being based in a shop-front. I spoke with

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Stay-Fresh Bananas

7-Eleven knows one thing that drives customers bananas: brown bananas wilting on the counter next to the cashier writes USA Today. So, today, the nation’s largest convenience store chain will test at 27 Dallas-area locations a new plastic wrap developed by supplier Fresh Del Monte Produce to keep single bananas yellow and firm for five

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Ice Cream Cupcake Inventor, MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream And Treatery(R), Announces New Halloween Ice Cream Cupcakes

Reuters: MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream and Treatery® announced today the introduction of four new Halloween ice cream cupcakes. The brand is the innovator of the ice cream cupcake and has expanded the line to include new designs for the occasion. MaggieMoo’s is managed by NexCen Franchise Management, Inc., a subsidiary of NexCen Brands, Inc. The Halloween

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Profiting From ‘New’ Juice

Reader’s Digest has an interesting story about former spy, now entrepreneur, Greg Quinn. A tall, brawny Irish American walks into your office, puts a crystal goblet on the desk, and pours out a serving of a deep-purple nectar. “This stuff used to be illegal,” he says in a gravelly voice. “We’re the guys who got

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Erasing A Reputation

Journal Record: As people talk about Tulsa they boast about the area around Peoria Avenue with its million-dollar mansions and affluent shopping area. But they won’t tell you what lies just a few miles north on the very same street. Drive north on Peoria and it’s like going into a time warp. There you find

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Spicy Buffalo Flavors Stampede

Buffalo flavor is hotter than hot so says USA Today. The spicy, hot pepper-laden flavoring that first took root years ago in Buffalo, N.Y., on chicken wings is now showing up in gobs of other new products at fast food joints and grocery stores. Subway rolled-out a Buffalo Chicken sub last week. Wendy’s recently introduced

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Generating More Leads

photo credit: cod_gabriel Your teleprospectors must be smart, articulate, engaging and organized. Their training should focus on making them productive and sustainable extension of the selling effort. If your company is a sales company then you know how important it is for your companies future to generate as many great leads as you possibly can.

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Are Entrepreneurs Born Or Made?

Blogger Scott Shane at The New York Times ponders an interesting question…are entrepreneurs born or made? The tendency to be an entrepreneur is heritable. (Heritability is the proportion of difference between individuals explained by genetic factors.) We found these heritabilities were substantive regardless of what indications of entrepreneurship we measured: owning or operating a business,

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