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October 2009
Hotel Hikes Room Rates On Olympic Tourists
Vancouver Sun: The former Quality Inn Vancouver Airport Hotel has been stripped of its Quality Inn franchise, leaving hundreds of customers who made guaranteed bookings for the 2010 Olympic Games facing stiff price increases to retain their rooms. The hotel is honouring reservations guaranteed by the booking agents for its former franchise, but not the
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Digital Panhandling
In the two years since he lost his job as a cook, Kevin Boudreau has learned the subtle art of how to ask strangers for money. But now, with winter approaching and an aversion to shelters, the homeless man with the grizzled goatee and skull tattoos covering both arms needs more than spare change reports
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Downturn Victim Goes It Alone With Franchise
nebusiness.co.uk: A former roofer left out of work by the downturn in the construction industry has become his own boss after signing up for a ‘try before you buy’ bin-cleaning franchise. Craig Richardson was out of work for three months before he found out about the County Durham-based Be Franchising scheme, which allows people to
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Inventor Turns Discarded Coconut Shells Into Clothing
More than 60 clothing companies, including well known brands like Adidas, Eddie Bauer and Dockers, are using a material designed by a Colorado company which employs coconut shells to create clothes that dry faster, smell better and save energy while laundering reports 9News.com. It may sound crazy, but Boulder-based Cocona actually uses carbon from left
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Bricklayer Of The Future?
If you happen to be on Pike Street In New York’s Chinatown between now and November 14th, you might catch a glimpse of “R-O-B” the bricklaying robot building a 7,000 brick “Infinite Loop” sculpture along a pedestrian island so reports gadget blog Gizmodo. Designed by Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, the Infinite Loop has been
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Boomer Trends: Aging Parents
About.com reports that the baby boomer generation is so large that it encompasses a whole range of life events. One of the larger subsets of the boomer demographic is those who are currently dealing with aged parents or soon to be about to. Many baby boomers feel incapable of dealing with their parents’ problems themselves.
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Include A Personal Touch On Your Website
photo credit: Noah Sussman It’s not personal–it’s business. A mantra heard by business people through the years, but when it comes to our business websites, it’s more personal than business. Living online today is social, and that means personal. To attract customers and keep them, you need to think about the social touches that can
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Small Bizs Ready To Hire Again
Small Business Startup News reports that a new survey of hiring expectations brings good news for small business owners looking for signs to expand again – about 44 percent of small businesses say they plan to hire new employees in the next year. The Intuit Payroll survey finds small business owners expressing greater confidence in
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Critical Employee Reviews
photo credit: linh.ngân I recently came across an article on Entrepreneur.com regarding how important employee reviews are to your company and I couldn’t agree with more. Employee reviews today are more important now then they ever have been before with such a huge pool of unemployed people out there. Your annual reviews serve several purposes
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