Amazon today announced that they are ending their affiliate program in California in a high stakes game of chicken with the state of California’s in response to the new proposed internet sales-tax law. Just received this note from Amazon: For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. […]
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Lawn & Landscape: Franchising your business could be a fantastic way to take your business model from a standalone operation to a regional or even national level. But this is no overnight conversion – there is a lot of thought, planning and preparation that must go into the decision to franchise. Franchising expert Kay Ainsley,
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Fast Casual: Flippin’ Pizza, the 13-unit fast casual New York-style pizza concept, has signed a franchise agreement with foodservice veteran Brett Silver to transfer three existing restaurants to his ownership in the Maryland market. Silver is currently the director of concessions for Levy Restaurants at the Washington Nationals Park. Flippin’ Pizza is the official pizza
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Chicago Tribune: A Giordano’s bankruptcy hearing turned into what the judge called a “sideshow” and a “circus” and resulted in an Arizona man being led away by three security guards and escorted out of the building after he interrupted the proceedings and made a vaguely threatening remark. Marshall Home, who has intervened in the Chicago
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MyFox9: It may seem a bit old-fashioned, but one 11-year-old Cub Scout is financing his new dreams by turning into a lawn-mowing mogul. Despite his age, Bill Breitenstein seems beyond his years and hasn’t gone by “Billy†since kindergarten. Now, he’s going into sixth grade and was yearning for a new mountain bike. So, his
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BNET: In 2008 I became president of Moe’s Southwest Grill, a restaurant franchise based out of Atlanta, Georgia. We have 428 restaurants across 32 states, Canada, and most recently, Turkey. At this point, we’re growing at a rate of about one new restaurant a week and plan to have 65 new locations open by the
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NWI.com: Four local women selling Lia Sophia jewelry have won company honors for sales and all earn six figures. Debbie Rotkvich, a Chicago native, went from owning a business to direct selling 16 years ago. Today her personal earnings are more than $3 million and her team sales are more than $106 million. St. John
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The National Association for Moms in Business says that moms have $1.3 trillion in spending power, with 80% of them making most of the household decisions. So, if a company chooses to ignore the mom market, they face hurting their income. Stacy DeBroff noticed many of the issues these companies seemed to have trying to
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The following is a guest post by Peter Winick. Everybody is doing it. With easy-to-use, off-the-shelf publishing software, even producing a good looking book isn’t that difficult. Books are being written and published at the highest rate in history. It’s selling books that is the problem. Many authors write a book and simply expect the
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Central Valley Business Times recently reported findings from the American Small Business League (ASBL) that the SBA is lying about the actual number of contracts reaching small businesses. Last week the Small Business Administration said that the federal government narrowly missed its congressionally mandated 23 percent small business goal. The SBA announced the government awarded
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