TechCrunch.com: This post is written by Marcelo Calbucci, the founder and CTO of Sampa, a personal homepage creator that will be shutting down this month. He’s writing a series of posts about the lessons learned from the venture. “In the middle of 2008 we decide to do a qualitative analysis of our user base. People […]
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examiner.com: Examiner: What is your business all about? Carol: The company, MyPacifier.com, was started by our family in Denmark when the founder, Pia Callesen, was tired of picking her son up from daycare and finding another’s pacifier in his mouth. She was tired of being told to write the name with a Sharpie on the
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Slurls.com: What’s a slurl? To be a slurl it must abide by 4 rules. 1. There’s a website AND 2. It’s an active website AND 3. There’s a double meaning AND 4. It’s not deliberate. Here’s some examples: 1hourscrap.com – Rapid scrapbook making carsexpress.com – Vehicle leasing and sales teacherstalk.co.uk – Teachers’ discussion forum therapistfinder.com
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The Franchise Magazine: With a trading history of nearly four decades, Safeclean is able to draw upon the huge Guardsman customer database to help franchise owners to build their businesses. In the run up to starting a business the biggest concern for many business owners is whether there will be any customers. Not so for
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The Associated Press: Herbalife Ltd., a nutritional and weight-loss supplements maker, said Friday it will buy a facility in California for an undisclosed amount, in a move to strengthen manufacturing capabilities. The company said it is buying assets from Micelle Laboratories, an Orange County, California contract manufacturer of food and nutritional supplements in the powder,
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QSR Web: Arby’s is growing in the midst of the year’s economic challenges. Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc., a subsidiary of Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc., has announced that it has signed agreements in the first half of 2009 with 11 new and seven existing franchisees for the development of 47 new Arby’s restaurants in the United States
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BusinessWire: LifeVantage announced today that celebrity talk show host and LifeVantage independent distributor Montel Williams is featured in the September/October 2009 issue of the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) Magazine, the largest circulation magazine in the world. According to Montel Williams, “I was recently interviewed by AARP Magazine and spoke to them about Protandim
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TMCnet: Las Cruces’ last Blockbuster video store closed its doors Monday, though it will open four days this week for a clearance sale, a company official said. The store, 2603 N. Main St., will be the third to close in the past year in Las Cruces. Doug Alexander, manager for Blockbuster’s Albuquerque market, said the
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StorefrontBacktalk: Franchisee Columnist Todd Michaud has spent the last 16 years trying to fight IT issues, with the last six years focused on franchisee IT issues—first running the retail technology department for Dunkin’ Brands (Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins) and now running IT for Focus Brands (Cinnabon, Carvel, Schlotzsky’s and Moe’s Southwestern Grill). I’m taking
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PR Newswire: Independence IT, a leading provider of application hosting and infrastructure management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced the appointment of Charles (Chip) Buck to chief operating officer (COO). Additionally, the firm has promoted Michael Kincaid to operations manager and Jason Shivok to technical manager. “We are making significant enhancements across our
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