The Wall Street Journal: Now Procter & Gamble wants to wash your car. The giant manufacturer of household staples including Pampers diapers, Crest toothpaste and Gillette razors is forging a new business model: franchising car washes. To jump-start plans for a nationwide chain of Mr. Clean Car Wash franchises, P&G in December acquired the franchise […]
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Rhonda Abrams At USA TODAY: All you need is love, love; love is all you need. The Beatles weren’t business consultants when they sang that, of course, and you certainly need more than just love to run a small business. But this Valentine’s Day, let’s look at 10 ways that love helps your business succeed:
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BusinessWeek: Want to drown your economic worries? HowstheBar.com, a new social-network site that lets members rate bars in real time to find the most hopping places, may help. Some 600 members in Illinois are already clicking on where to go–and where not to–says Randy Rantz, founder of the venture. After working as a real estate
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Download Squad: Add Printable Checklist to your list of single-use web applications with incredibly straightforward names. In fact, go ahead and use Printable Checklist to make the list. It’s almost ridiculously simple to use: add, delete, and rename are the only options. Sometimes bare bones is best, though. Loading up Printable Checklist in a browser
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Ocala: A new franchisee has plans to revive the Beef O’ Brady’s restaurant off West State Road 200 with a target opening date of March 9 and accept applications for some 40 jobs at the eatery beginning Monday, Feb 16. Corey Russell is the operator and one of a group of owners of the restaurant
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Trendhunter: Speed bumps are becoming an increasingly attractive option to advertise products and services by catching the customer at a moment when he has to slow down his speed and pay attention. The latest is a McDonald’s outdoor campaign by DDB New Zealand that promotes the new McDonald’s Shaker Fries (the ones that come in
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SYS-CON Media: MyMenu, a delicious new food shopping experience specializing in restaurant-quality frozen foods and offering hundreds of meal ideas in one easy-to-navigate aisle, announced it is expanding throughout the Midwest. The company’s growth plan is based on a franchising model, and follows the successful opening of MyMenu stores in Madison, WI, and Fort Wayne,
The Daily Evergreen: Economic times have been hard on Taco Time. Following a gradual decline in popularity, sales and the building’s degrading condition, the downtown Pullman Taco Time, run by the Happy Day Corporation, shut down its operations Jan. 23. Happy Day Corp. is responsible for other restaurants throughout the northwest such as A&W, Arby’s,
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Dispatch Online: The black middle class may be propping up the residential property market, yet those raking in the money from the house trade remain almost entirely white, News24 reports. Much of the more than R10billion that the real estate industry earns yearly in commissions ends up with a few family-owned businesses that have not
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Franchising.com: Worldwide Express announced today that Tom Madine has been promoted from VP Franchise Operations to COO as part of a corporate restructuring. Tom Madine joined Worldwide Express in 1997 as a franchise owner, and brought his extensive knowledge of franchising and real-world experience as a Worldwide Express franchisee to the Corporate office in early
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