June 5, 2009

Bring Your Franchise Sales Process To A Peak

Franchising.com: Process Peak, a San Diego-based company, creates fully customizable virtual brochures for franchisors to take prospective franchisees through their entire sales process, while also providing a pipeline management platform that incorporates prospect feedback and confirmation along every step of the way. This collaborative platform is designed to yield qualified ready-to-buy franchisees in 30 to […]

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Questions For Entrepreneurs To Ask Themselves

Ideas

photo credit: StÃ©fan When being in business for yourself, there are so many different territories that one has to have control over, so many different decisions to make and ideas to come up with for products and services. Below are a couple questions that OpenForum feel’s every entrepreneur should ask themselves at some point. Question

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Assessing Problems And Finding The Solutions

Ideas

photo credit: Foreign and Commonwealth Office When you hire a consultant to come into your business, you are basically paying them a large fee to listen to your employees and then relay the infromation to you and vice versa. Why spend that money when you can do the same thing for free? It’s really quite

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Vegan & A Good Excuse For A Party!

MLM Site

Examiner.com: So you are sitting around on a Saturday night,wishing you had something to do. Solution: Arbonne. Your kids are crawling around your feet, screaming, crying, and laughing all at once. You wish you could somehow have a job to get away from it all. Solution: Arbonne. You have really dry eczema on your skin,

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Laid Off? Throw A Party!

MLM Site

The Financial Times: One of the positive aspects of an economic downturn is a return to simple pleasures and entertaining at home, and that can only be good for direct sellers. Mother and daughter, Sylvie Rochette and Amelia Warren and their team know that first hand. “We are conscious of what’s happening in the world

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Home Biz: Personal Concierge

Ideas

Entrepreneur: This business is for someone who is supremely efficient and has the ability to make things happen. People who hire you will expect things when they want them and you need to be able to come through with not only what they want, but with a personal touch and a smile on your face.

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Invention Helps NHL Teams Keep Clean

Inventions

PRNewswire: When life throws you lemons, go ahead and make lemonade but take it one step further and open a lemonade stand!” says Mike Antinozzi, laid-off technology worker and Founder and President of Fresh Gear by Ozone Nation Inc. Antinozzi has developed a machine that disinfects and deodorizes bacteria-infested sports gear worn in hockey, football

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100th 7-Eleven Fla. Franchise

Franchise Site

Bizjournals.com: A 7-Eleven store in Orlando is the 100th in the state to convert from corporate-owned to a franchised operation. The 3,000-square-foot convenience store at 3911 McCoy Road near Conway Road, which also has a gasoline station, will now be owned by franchisee Ermal Metollari, a former store manager for five years. Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc.

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Biz Poll Results: Credit Crunch

Ideas

The Wall Street Journal: Nicole Pritikin, the owner of an online knitting and yarn shop in North Bennington, Vt., was so happy with her credit card from Advanta Corp. that she praised the company in its 2001 annual report. “The checkbook is history!” she said. Since last week, though, she has switched her automatic bill

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Subway Closes

Franchise Site

www.thisisretford.co.uk: A national fast food chain restaurant in Retford has shut its doors just two years after opening. The Subway store on Spa Lane was closed on Sunday after the franchise owner left the company. The fast food chain, which specialises in submarine sandwiches, says it is a temporary closure. “The Subway chain can confirm

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