The St. Petersburg Times: Direct sales, also known as multi-level marketing, is a $3-billion business in Russia and growing fast, with companies like Amway, Avon, and Herbalife showing record sales results in 2010 and solid growth potential this year. Amway, an American company that sells beauty, health and home-care products and has recruited an army […]
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PR Newswire: Yogurtini® and YHI, Inc., a national and quickly growing self-serve frozen yogurt franchise originally established in Tempe, Arizona in 2008, announced today the migration of its popular serve-yo-self® concept to Kansas. “We have had an amazing and wonderful response to the Yogurtini concept at our Midwest franchises in Missouri. The demand in Kansas
TheStreet.com: On Saturday, May 1, 2010, a record-breaking rain began to pour down on Middle Tennessee. The two-day storm dumped more than 19 inches of rain on the Nashville area, sending local rivers surging over their banks in what the Army Corps of Engineers now calls a thousand-year flood. On the third day, Jay Hennessey,
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Zacks.com: Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Domino’s Pizza, Inc, which currently owns and operates 454 company-owned restaurants and 8,897 franchised restaurants, announced the opening of its first store in Poland, which is Europe’s sixth largest economy. The company has opened the new pizza store through a franchise DP Polska SA, who is the master franchisee for Poland
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Brother has launched the “See the Bigger Picture†contest and is awarding one lucky small business owner a $10,000 business grant (and a chance to win other prizes like iPads and other Brother products). Small business owners can enter the contest at www.shareyourbigpicture.com now through March 29. Participants will be asked to explain in at
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Bradenton Herald: Saladworks, the nation’s first and largest fresh-tossed salad franchise concept, announces an agreement with a multi-unit developer for three locations in the Orange County, CA area. The first store of this new agreement is slated to open in at the end of 2011. In 2010, Saladworks signed two separate deals for a total
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If you’re a web startup, venture capital has not been easier to find. Just ask Aaron Levie. According to The Wall Street Journal, his web business, Box.net, not only succeeded at finding funding, but he had to turn some investors away. Isn’t that a problem we all wish we had? Mr. Levie’s experience underlines one
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PsychTest has created the Entrepreneur Personality Test. It is a unique test that can assess whether you’re entrepreneur material. The test covered seven key business traits, namely Self-sufficiency, Conscientiousness, Drive, Social Skills, Optimism, Risk-taking, and Networking Ability. With over 12,000 test-takers to date, PsychTests data revealed that entrepreneurs who took the test outscored those without
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When demand is greater than supply, and you have some of the supply, you can always make money. Mashable has a story about one woman who sold her spot in line for the Apple iPad 2: College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first
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If you’re a mom interested in starting a business, Lara Galloway has the tools to help you get started. She has recently launched a new resource for mompreneurs called the Mom Biz Academy. For $47 per month, women will have access to resources, informative monthly calls, and more. Galloway says there are six steps for
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