Reuters: If the global recession has made companies focus on business plans with solid financial returns, the Internet remains its own autonomous trade zone, free from the reach of the standard rules. Executives from the world’s top technology and media companies convened near San Diego to discuss the future of their businesses and to tout […]
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Are you thinking about starting your own online business? Abc7news.com has a few pieces of advice that you might find handy. 1. Flexibility? Yes! Easy? No! – One of the biggest myths of starting your own business is that if you have a great idea, it will come easy. While being your own boss allows
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photo credit: notsogoodphotography Keep a tidy site: Take as much pride in your Web site as you would a company newsletter or direct mailing. Your content should be grammatically correct and use an appropriate tone. Your links should work. Your pages should be neat. If you are a small business who is looking to expand
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Associated Press: As Wal-Mart opens about 150 new or expanded stores in the U.S. in 2009, the company expects to hire about 22,000 people for new positions. Those positions include plenty of cashiers and stock clerks, but the world’s largest retailer will also be adding store managers, pharmacists and personnel workers. “During this difficult economic
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photo credit: prudencebrown121 The state of Michigan has been seeing a decline in small business owners offering insurance plans to their employees. In 2008 in dropped after dropping the year before as well. It is said that Michigan’s small businesses are dropping insurance plans due to the high costs and economic downturn we are experiencing.
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citizen.on.ca: It is a leap of faith, on any terms, to go into business for yourself. Nowadays, of course, more and more people are doing so – from necessity. Independence brings its own demands, such as considerable self discipline, focus and a determination to succeed. The home party selling scene seems to be thriving in
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MLive.com: Powerful people have a certain quality, a serenity that comes from not needing to be loud or demanding to get their way. What they want done gets done. You recognize it as soon as you meet Eva Cheng, the woman who runs Amway in China and Southeast Asia. She walks into a room softly.
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Ars Technica: The monthly cost of Internet access has dropped regularly for years, but the big price reductions might now be behind us. New data from Point Topic shows that prices for fiber, cable, and DSL connections have remained essentially flat since September 2007. But when the total monthly bill for Internet access is graphed
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Springfield News Sun: The SONIC 
location in Urbana has closed due to financial reasons, according to information released from the company Thursday, June 4. The business, located at 1754 E. U.S. 36, was being evaluated for several months, according to information from the company. The local owner of the business could not be reached for
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A luxury hotel in London now has it’s own “water list.” Like a wine list, more than 30 of the world’s most expensive bottled water brands are available. Luxury water looks like it could be a great business to be in.
