June 16, 2010

Mary Kay Plans Conferences In Lancaster

LancasterOnline.com: About 2,000 independent sales consultants for the Dallas-based cosmetics giant will be at the Lancaster County Convention Center April 1-2, 2011, for regional career conferences. A second meeting will be held in March 2012, confirmed Janelle O’Haugherty, Mary Kay’s corporate communications manager. O’Haugherty said she expects the conference attendees to come from Pennsylvania, Maryland, […]

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Fifth Third Bank Signs Two Large Restaurant Franchisees To Industry-Leading Solution

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PR-USA.net: Fifth Third Bank has signed two large quick-serve restaurant franchisees, Heartland Food Corp. and C.H. James Restaurant Holdings LLC, to use the Bank’s Remote Currency Manager (RCM) solution. RCM is the Bank’s remote cash capture product which works in coordination with smart-safe technology and bank-approved armored couriers. The solution allows those in a retail

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Love Kitchen To Serve Pizza To Needy In Fargo

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In-Forum: The Little Caesars Love Kitchen will be serving pizza meals to approximately 300 people at the Salvation Army today and to about 200 people Wednesday at the New Life Center. Both sites are in Fargo. A pizza kitchen on wheels, the Love Kitchen travels across the United States and Canada meeting the needs of

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Novopelleâ„¢ Receives FTC Approval To Franchise

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EON: Enhanced Online News: Novopelleâ„¢, the leading provider of affordable cosmetic procedures, announced today it has received approval from the Federal Trade Commission to expand its business by offering franchises. Novopelleâ€™sâ„¢ innovative business model, high revenue margins and low entry barriers make this a great business opportunity. Novopelleâ„¢ offers the same procedures found at high-priced

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McDonald’s: He’s Loving It

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Belfast Telegraph: Paul Connan is franchisee of five McDonaldâ€™s outlets. He talks about what that entails, the McDonaldâ€™s brand, and how the company can be a real education. Has it been your experience that fast food has benefited from the recession? It is a popular myth that our business growth and success has been dependent

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The Democracy Of Making (And Selling) Things

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According to Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine’s editor-in-chief, atoms are the new bits – and because of this we are on the brink of the next industrial revolution. It’s happening in hackerspaces across the country where inventors aren’t just building prototypes, but taking their inventions directly to market, foregoing the traditional factory. The open-source movement is

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Finding Additional Revenue Streams: When To Franchise

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Reuters: It’s the best time because realtors are trying to redevelop themselves, they need a new image,” said Majors, the U.S. operations president for the Boulder, Colorado-based company that sells eco-friendly housing. “This is something that could be scalable, that could work in so many green communities.” At a time when the housing market remains

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Cardboard Mechanics

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“Cardboard Mechanics” is an art installation created by four students at the Utrecht School of Art and Technology in the Netherlands. It is a clockwork machine built out of cardboard and controlled by an arduino. You can view more videos of the machine here. via Neatorama

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Green Biz: Global Cycle Solutions

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According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Global Cycle Solutions makes gadgets that let farmers in the developing world use bicycles to shell maize or charge mobile phones. Jodie Wu conceived the idea in 2008 while a student at MIT’s D-Lab, which incubates technologies for developing countries. She and six co-founders launched the business in 2009 with $30,000

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A Different Kind Of Hockey

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CTV News: The National Hockey League playoffs end this week, and 29-year-old entrepreneur Juha Mikkola hopes to continue making inroads in Canada’s hockey-mad culture by selling floorball as an off-ice activity that helps players improve their skills. NHL stars such as Henrik and Daniel Sedin grew up playing this European version of floor hockey, the

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