July 13, 2010

Franchisee SEO – Can You Trust Corporate’s Recommendations?

Franchise Site

Search Engine Land: Franchises and their franchisees often tend to have love/hate relationships—it’s the nature of the beast. Franchises tend to want their franchisees to focus on corporate priorities and to play by the corporate rules. Franchisees tend to want fewer restrictions from corporate and more support. In general it seems like the relationship works […]

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Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar Introduces New Menu

Franchise Site

Pizza Marketing Quarterly: Boston’s has expanded the “Healthy Hits” section of the menu, offering many new items for the health conscience, including Shrimp Diablo Pasta, Steak and Broccoli, Asian-Glazed Salmon and Margherita Flatbread. “We heard loud and clear from our guests that they wanted more healthy options. We know that more and more people are

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Evans Steakhouse Closed

Franchise Site

The Augusta Chronicle: The doors of an Evans steakhouse closed for good this past weekend. Mark Herbert, owner of Stonecrest Steakhouse in Evans Town Center, said the last dinner was served Saturday evening before the upscale steak house closed. “It’s not a money issue,” Herbert said, who also owns and operates Herbert Homes. In one

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Publix Joins The Lunchbox Wars

Ideas

Look out Lunchables, Publix is getting into the kids meal business. The Tampa Tribune reports that with school set to start in a couple months, the Southeast’s leading grocery chain is planning to roll out a series of its own pre-packaged kids meals, but deli-made and designed to tuck neatly into kid’s lunchboxes. The move

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Tennessee Is Open For Business

Ideas

The Nashville Business Journal is reporting that the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development is now accepting entries into their “What Makes You an Entrepreneur” video competition. Entries will be accepted through Oct. 31 through the Tennessee Open for Business website, http://tnopenforbusiness.org. Finalists will be selected from five categories: Main Street/downtown; home-based; agri-business; arts

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Etch A Sketch Turns 50!

History, Inventions

According to Wired magazine, the technology behind this children’s toy is both simple and complex. Simple, in that an internal stylus is used, manipulated by turning horizontal and vertical knobs to “etch a sketch” onto a glass window coated with aluminum powder. Complex, because the Etch a Sketch employs a fairly sophisticated pulley system that

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