Dallas Market Center recently put out a call for entries for their contest The Next Big Thing. It is a search for the newest, most innovative product. The winner of the contest will receive a prize package worth $10,000 and the opportunity to show their product in front of 50,000 retail buyers! Anyone who has […]
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Snail mail can be trendy too! Take a look at these newly designed letter openers. They make receiving mail fun again! Check them out, featured by Fast Company: Paper mail may be going the way of the dodo, but thanks to some major design upgrades, letter openers are here to stay. The once-utilitarian tool has
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WSJ: Monawara Sultana says her rent is going up: $14,000 for a two-year permit to run a food cart where she sells $1 hot dogs outside of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. And it’s not the city levying the increase or recouping the money. It’s the permit holder, who is asking for double what
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ClickZ News: Yodle has launched a display advertising network aimed at brand-name franchises, regional chains, and other multi-location businesses. The local marketing company has traditionally served small-to-medium-sized businesses with SEM and SEO products, but now branches out with display opportunities for clients. Called “Yodle Display,” it is designed to enable companies to contextually target sites
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Business Wire (press release): Jan-Pro Cleaning Systems of South Jersey and Delaware announces that they have been honored with the International Franchise Association’s prestigious “Franny†award, which they accepted at the Jan-Pro’s annual conference in Palm Coast, Florida on February 26. The “Franny†was established to recognize the company’s top master franchise owners. As the
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SmartCompany.com.au (blog): Several of the submissions to the Western Australian supplementary franchise inquiry, which support the introduction of franchise legislation, propose that increased regulation will result in increased investor demand by potential franchisees. Out of the 114 submissions lodged with the inquiry, just 15 support the proposal to legislate franchising in WA, and of these
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Franchiseindia.com: The first Spanish designer label, Adolfo Dominguez (AD) has signed Wadhawan Lifestyle Retail Pvt. Ltd, a part of the Wadhawan Group as its Master Franchisee for expansion in India, confirms a company’s official. AD has recently launched its first outlet in India in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi and now the company is eyeing to
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PR Newswire: In less than five years, Oxi Fresh Carpet Cleaning® has become one of the nation’s fastest-growing carpet cleaning franchises, leading company principals to make the decision to design a new franchise website. “This new site contains more information and is much easier to navigate,” said Jonathan Barnett, Oxi Fresh founder and CEO. “Located
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The Meadville Tribune: “We had to get back on track and try to get back up that hill,†said Conneaut Lake’s Sharla Buzzard. The sluggish American economy hit home for her and her family in a big way last year when her husband, Derrick, lost his job when the company he worked for went bankrupt.
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Most people who become entrepreneurs do so because they have a vision. Here’s another reason though… because they have to create their own jobs just to make ends meet. Call it Involuntary Entrepreneurship. I had a friend who once said “‘Consultant’ is what you put on your resume when you don’t have a job!” Evidently
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