First Coast News: Bill Mueller said he’s in the category of those who leased their boats to the Florida Boat Club. Mueller said his 2008 Walkaround Seafox was up for sale when he was approached by the club about a lease. “They would pay me $365 a month and keep the boat for its members […]
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The Open Press: The Glass Doctor® of Southern New Mexico franchise owned by Glenda Vincell and her son, Tim Vincell, celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon cutting sponsored by the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce Nov. 4. Glass Doctor of Southern New Mexico offers mobile residential, automotive, and commercial glass services to Las Cruces
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Seeking Alpha: McDonald’s (MCD) had Investor Day in Chicago yesterday, and treated the analysts to breakfast AND lunch, and a pretty well developed presentation of US, Europe, APNEA, corporate and marketing actions underway. We monitored the discussion, and relate the following interesting points that might get lost otherwise: * While they didn’t want to get
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Memphis Daily News: Solberg Properties, the local franchisee of Sonic, America’s Drive-In restaurants, has bought the property at 5336 Poplar Ave. in East Memphis for $1.8 million. The 1-acre site contains a 6,713-square-foot building that was built in 1980 and formerly housed Bennigan’s Grill & Tavern and most recently the River City Bar & Grill.
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Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist reports, The New York Times. These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, are no more than a collection of pixels
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PR Newswire: Dunkin’ Donuts, America’s favorite every day, all-day stop for coffee and baked goods, announced today the signing of a multi-unit store development agreement with Pace Development LLC for 15 new restaurants in Louisville, KY. The first two locations are anticipated to open in 2011 and the remainder by 2016. Dunkin’ Donuts’ development in
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As a student, Julie Thatcher was pretty sure her business would be popular with the college set when she opened a restaurant in 2004 less than a mile from the university campus, reports The Juneau Empire. She and her friends had been spending late nights making waffles and drinking caffeine in the campus dorm kitchen.
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Rieva Lesonsky at The Small Business Blog has an interesting look at how to turn customers into fanatic fans. Every team needs fans. And every business needs them as well. Several years ago, Ken Blanchard of “One Minute Manager” fame wrote a book called Raving Fans, essentially a parable about how businesses can turn customers
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Rick Rieser was halfway through his daily jog this summer when the idea for Percy, The Perfectly Imperfect Chicken popped into his brain, reports The San Jose Mercury News. Today, the 52-year-old first-time author is preparing for a busy schedule of readings in the Midwest, toting boxes of the children’s book that was published with
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The New York Times is reporting that PayPal is seeking new ways to use its payment system. PayPal held its first developer conference in San Francisco to officially open its platform to software developers wanting to include payments in their Web or cellphone applications. With the new platform, any software developer can embed PayPal’s technology
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