MarketWatch: For USANA Health Sciences, Inc. outstanding workplace safety is no accident as winners of the Workers’ Compensation Fund (WCF) 2010 Charles A. Caine Award for Workplace Safety. Out of 24,000 Utah companies the WCF serves, USANA, along with 15 other Utah companies, was honored at a Traditions of Safety event Thursday, June 03, 2010 […]
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Bizjournals.com: The Canadian news wires are abuzz with news of a sandwich-shop worker who was fired for giving out free subs to victims of a fire ― and a franchisee of the Denver-based Quiznos chain who came to the rescue. According to the Montreal Gazette and numerous other north-of-the-border news outlets, Heidi Heise had been
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Akron Beacon Journal: Owning a franchise is often depicted as being in business for yourself, but not completely alone. Franchise owners work under a proven successful business structure. They also have access to proven operational and marketing strategies and the franchiser’s institutional guidance. Franchise ownership isn’t an easy shortcut to success. As with any other
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Franchising.com: As traditional advertising and broker relationships continue to get more expensive but less effective at generating quality franchise leads, The Growth Coach, a national franchise of small business coaches in more than 140 markets, is breaking away from traditional approaches in finding franchise buyers. The Growth Coach announced it will pay $5,000 to anyone
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FranchiseUpdate: Franchise Update Media Group (FUMG) the leading industry resource for franchise development, today announced that the 2010 Franchise Leadership and Development Conference theme of “Driving Performance” will reveal strategies to increase leads, boost sales and grow your brand. The conference will be held September 22 – 24, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton Buckhead, Atlanta.
In 2003, Tom Stemple had the sort of struck-by-lightning moment every entrepreneur dreams about–on steroids. Stemple’s brother had taken his wife’s cell phone to work by mistake, reports Entrepreneur. Drowning in a sea of drab black and silver cell phones hardly distinguishable from one another, Stemple decided there had to be a better way to
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Success magazine suggests that each month for 30 days in a row, commit to doing something new that you have thought about doing, but have not done, and notice how it affects your life. Some possibilities: do aerobic exercise for 30 minutes, listen to only positive music, don’t read the newspaper, stop watching television, eat
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Nation’s Restaurant News: While access to capital remains difficult to obtain for restaurant operators looking to expand, especially in a heavily franchised segment like pizza, two executives offered creative ways to secure funding during a panel discussion at the Pizza Executive Summit this week in Chicago. Mike Mrlik, chief executive of Austin, Texas-based Gatti’s Pizza,
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In 2008, Peter Frykman, a mechanical engineering student at Stanford University, designed a small, portable laser-manufacturing system that could quickly and accurately punch holes in cheap plastic tubing to make affordable drip irrigation systems. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, in June 2008, he founded Driptech with $5,000 of his own money. The 26-year-old entrepreneur has raised
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The endless drone of the vuzuzelas, the plastic trumpet, has become an infuriating and inescapable presence at World Cup matches and their global TV broadcasts. German inventor and programmer Tobias Herre has a solution. The Atlantic Wire is reporting that Herre has devised a way to filter the audio from World Cup through his computer
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