Focus on Travel News: IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, announced the introduction of the first Hotel Indigo property in Central America. The property is expected to open in the first quarter of 2009 in the metropolitan city of San Jose, the capital and largest city of Costa […]
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Inside Retailing: A WA video retailer has been named Civic Video’s Outstanding Franchisee of 2007-2008. David Gianotti, Michael Gianotti and Paula Gianotti, owners of the Civic Video Parks Centre and the Bunbury stores in WA, received a $10,000 travel voucher for their achievement – which was presented at the video franchise chain’s Pipeline 2008 conference
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The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 11 Let Hope Predominate But Be Not Too Visionary Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain success, and therefore they keep changing from
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Springwise: In a world populated by gadgets with increasingly varied and complex capabilities, there stand out a lone few that do just one thing really well. The iPod is one classic example, and earlier this month another was released that may even have the potential to attain as devoted a consumer following, if the early
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smSmallBusiness.com: Launching or maintaining a small business in this environment isn’t easy. Access to start-up or growth capital is more limited these days. And many business owners expect increased economic hardships to come. According to the Buffalo Grove, Ill., management consulting firm International Profit Associate’s Small Business Research Board, the Small Business Confidence Index conducted
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Forbes.com: No matter what kind of business you choose to run, or where you choose to run it, making it on your own steam demands an abundance of forethought, tenacity, discipline and commitment. And, to be charitable, most people don’t have it. For those contemplating the move home, beware these red flags: – You have
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Knoxville News Sentinel: The Knoxville PODS franchisee, Volunteers Portable Moving & Storage LLC, has completed a $2.2 million expansion of its storage facility in WestBridge Business Park. The PODS operation will move into a 41,000-square-foot building at 10155 Gallows Point Drive, about one mile east of the Pellissippi Parkway-Hardin Valley Road intersection. Volunteers Portable Moving
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Irish Franchise Magazine: Print on demand franchises Kall Kwik and Prontaprint have announced that over £3.5m of new investment will be put into the franchise networks this year, following a surge of interest in the franchise from business professionals turning to franchising as a way to stay afloat in the credit crunch. Contracts for 25
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Franchise Key: The Subway franchise chain is currently testing out a new concept: according to a report on the online portal, coffee-scout.net, five new outlets located in Washington DC shall not only be offering its customers the standard range of subs, ice-cream, cookies and coffee but shall also have an integrated café area. The Subway
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Franchising.com: Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc., a premier national provider of professional IT solutions to small business and residential customers under the trade names Geeks On Call(R), 1-800-905-GEEK(TM), CallTheGeeks.com(TM) and Call The Geeks(TM), announced today that disaster recovery company PuroClean has joined its Value-Added Benefit partner program. Geeks On Call will be an endorsed vendor
