July 6, 2009

Friday Fun Poll: Twitter Apps

Last Friday, we ran a fun poll to find the ‘fake’ twitter app. Three readers got the correct answer, Twitletter. The other listings were actual Twitter applications. Twaitter is a tweet scheduling program. Twititon allows you to create a petition that people then use their Twitter username to vote on. Tweepular calls itself the ultimate

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Wendy’s Can Learn A Few Lessons From Yum Brands

Seeking Alpha: In looking at the June 29, 2009, Barron’s “puff-piece” article on Wendy/Arby’s Group (WEN) and its upward price movement Monday, I was reminded that one of the company’s projected growth platforms, other than increasing number of US stores, improving margins at Wendy’s and improving R&D (Wendy’s breakfast was pulled until 2010) was international

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How to Fund Your First Business

photo credit: pfala Adam McFarland, is the 26 year old founder of Pure Adapt, a company that designs, develops, markets, and operates e-commerce stores and other websites in an array of industries. Here’s his advice for funding your first business: Get a non-career job where you can work 30 – 40 hours/week and make enough

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Mompreneurship At It's Best

ABC30: Sidney Miller’s friends have always praised her cookies. So when her corporate job gave out, she went to work in the kitchen. “So I’m out of a job and in the back of my mind I’m like, because why not?” said Miller. She started by using her Facebook friends to test the market and

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Recession Real Estate Opportunities, Hungry Investors Have Boombozz Franchising Plans Booming

Louisville Business First: A lot of people in the restaurant business are just trying to outlast the recession. To Tony Palombino, it’s just the right time to turn Boombozz Famous Gourmet Pizza Inc. into a regional chain of gourmet pizza restaurants, with TBB America LLC as the franchise company. Palombino, founder and CEO of the

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Top Cheesemaker Boost For Society’s Fodder Food Shop

Harrogate Today: FODDER, the newly-opened flagship food shop and café, set up and championed by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, has signed up artisan Thirsk cheesemaker, Shepherds Purse, to supply its full range of multi-award-winning speciality cheeses. The food shop, based on the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, part of the recently opened £5.1m Regional Agricultural Centre,

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