pegasusnews.com: Last week a group of area mom entrepreneurs met up at Chelsea’s Tea Room in South Arlington. Use of the tea room and lunch was provided courtesy of another mom entrepreneur Jackie Andrews. Each woman in the group is a mom business owner, and all wear various hats according to job requirements (pun intended). […]
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CNNMoney: For an elite Division I-bound high-school athlete, navigating the maze of college recruitment means choosing among the crowd of coaches lined up outside the door. But fewer than 10% of the estimated 1.5 million young athletes seeking a spot on a college sports team find themselves in that enviable position. The rest maneuver through
Spartanburg Herald: Simone Pace has sold Mary Kay products for the past 16 years. Pace, independent sales director for Mary Kay in Spartanburg, said she has seen double-digit sales growth during previous recessionary years, and this year is no exception. “There’s so much interest in it right now,” she said. “Every time the economy goes
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Arkansas Online: Until November 2007, Janet Miller was an administrative assistant, a career she had begun 20 years earlier. That career ended when she was let go by her employer, as Helaine R. Williams reports in Tuesday’s Style section. Two months later, Miller saw an Avon commercial urging viewers to “start your own business for
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The New York Times: After Duncan Birmingham, a comedy screenwriter in Los Angeles, got one too many holiday cards featuring miserable-looking pets wearing fake reindeer antlers, he realized the photos were great material for a blog. Birmingham started Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves in early January, uploaded the first entry and asked readers to
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Fortune Small Business: It’s always standardized test prep season at CEO Karan Goel’s company. The proven prep method has caught on quickly, and not just amongst parents and students: high schools across the country are signing up. PrepMe doesn’t just focus on the exam; it focuses on the academic achievements of the students. This way,
TheState.com: The next time your child makes her own movie on the Kerpoof Web site, keep in mind you’re looking at the brainchild of two University of South Carolina graduates. Brent Milne, his wife, Krista Marks, and their two partners met while working for the software company Xilinx in Boulder, Colo. They came up with
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arstechnica: Men go online more often, stay on for longer, and respond to ads more positively than women do, according to a new report from eMarketer. The firm looked at the Internet habits of men versus women, partially because men are (technically) in the minority online and also because gender “is a distinguishing factor of
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Business Standard: Australia-based Cartridge World, one of the fastest growing speciality cartridge refilling and retail chains in the world, is looking at an aggressive expansion through the franchisee route in India and moving in to becoming a one-stop shop for all printer needs with enhanced product offerings. Cartridge World in India started operations in 2007
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Franchise Key: ActionCOACH, one of the world’s leading business and executive coaching franchises, recently held its 2009 EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) conference at the London Metropole Hotel. According to the information provided, the conference culminated with an Awards Dinner to honour the “best of best†in business coaching from Europe, the Middle East
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