Mashable: What’s the best selling office product on Amazon.com this New Year? Perhaps printer ink and paper for all those holiday pics? Cases for all the new laptops received this Christmas? Try: none of the above. Currently leading Amazon’s Office Products and Supplies bestseller list is the Sarah Palin 2009 Calendar. According to the ad […]
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intellectual properties: Columnist David Brooks, commenting in the Dec. 16th New York Times about Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book called “Outliers,” made a statement as profound as it was accurate: “Control of attention is the ultimate individual power,” he wrote. “People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them.” But why is
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Website Magazine: 2008 has drawn to a close, and many Web professionals are wondering what next year will bring. It may seem arbitrary to make predictions, but the Web business is not a static industry and forecasting often shines the light on our practical hopes for the future. 1. A Major Social Media Shift 2.
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Mashable: With the recent explosion and expansion of online video, the biggest question is how to best drive viewer action and monetize this new medium. Even with these strong benefits, most agree that the video opportunity has yet to be fully realized. Companies struggle to best make use of this new medium, and have found
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Franchise Key: Since April the Spanish franchise Reformahogar started its International development. France, the first market’s target, was following by the installation of the network in Mexico and Brazil. After signed its first franchising contract in France, the brand gave the Master franchise to Mexico one week later. The signature of both agreements was the
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Making It Legal: The home office deduction sounds like it would be a great thing for small business owners. After all, many of us work at home, and it’s not as though the IRS is always so generous when it comes to deductions for the “little guys.” Deducting a portion of rent/mortgage interest, utilities, insurance,
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Outside, it was 18 degrees and light snow was falling. Inside, it was 69 and dry. Seventeen-month-old Cooper Tsoris kept his grandmother busy chasing after him in a huge New Berlin warehouse filled with playground equipment. “He’s a motion machine,” Christine Sobczak said. “He just needs a place to run around.” Calling
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Chicago Sun-Times: The Oak Brook-based company, the world’s largest fast-food chain, was one of two Dow Jones industrial average companies to see its stock gain last year, rising by about 6 percent. Retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s stock climbed 18 percent. The Dow lost 34 percent in 2008. McDonald’s benefitted from an expanded menu, coffee drinks,
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PR Newswire: Rollins, Inc., a premier North American consumer services company, announced today that the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Orkin, has established a franchise in the State of Kuwait. This latest franchise expands Orkin’s presence in the Middle East to five franchises and a total of eleven international franchises worldwide. Tom Luczynski, Vice President of
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In-Forum: Jim Gordon greets customers about six times a year while standing behind the counter of a Willmar pizza joint, the relentless aroma of tomato sauce and spices surrounding him. The owner of Willmar-based Jimmy’s Pizza Inc. has plenty of office work to keep him busy, with Jimmy’s Pizza franchises popping up all around the
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