Helen Stephens opened Our Fun House in Middlesbrough in 2008 to cater for parties and after-school activities for under-12s as well as offering adventure and educational play for toddlers, reports The Journal. She said: “I can’t deny that it was difficult to start up a business in the recession. A lot of people said we […]
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When we started Games2U, we put a list together of what we wanted it to be. We knew we didn’t ever want to have a retail business — mobile and home-based was essential to our concept. We wanted a business that needed very little head count, and one that anybody could own and operate on
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You can’t delight everybody all the time but you can do something extraordinary for someone each day. Find a customer, colleague, relative or a friend each day and do something remarkable. Using the one-a-day principle will make your business and life remarkable. – Mark Sanborn, leadership development speaker and author of the best-selling book The
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Kevin Kelleher over at GigaOm has an interesting look at how the Internet has changed the way we write. With so much discussion about how the Internet is changing journalism and media, there’s surprisingly little said about how writing itself has transformed. But it has changed in a dramatic if subtle way. Nine years ago,
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NASA announced that the cost of buying a used space shuttle for display in your museum, educational facility or backyard has dropped from $42 million to the low, low, low price of just $28.8 million, reports The Houston Press. And that’s not all!! The delivery of these fine, almost one-of-a-kind vehicle has been moved up
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For over sixty years, martial artists have honed their skills in one-on-one combat in hopes of being the best of best, or becoming the next Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee. But so far no one, including investors, has yet to reap the rewards this sport can generate when it breaks out of its current limitations.
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Do you send email newsletters to your customers and prospects? Smashing Magazine has some great tips for designing and sending your email newsletters. Respect your reader. Don’t waste their time or attention. Ask nicely first. Focus on relevance. Design with a goal in mind, so that you’ll know if it worked. Make unsubscribing easy. Code
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photo credit: brewbooks Do you run a bookstore? If so, check out these ten tips for attracting home educators (home schoolers) into your store. Here are a few: 4. “How-to-homeschool” books are fine, but many parents have moved beyond this introductory stage and need content. Stock core texts in the main academic areas too: history,
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Nation’s Restaurant News: Genghis Grill Franchise Concepts LP, parent to the 41-unit Genghis Grill Mongolian barbecue chain, and Mark H. Brezinski, founder of Bengal Coast Restaurants LP, will announce plans Monday for a joint venture in a fast-casual Asian restaurant to be called Bistro Babusan. The first Bistro Babusan is scheduled to open by late
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Richmond Times Dispatch: Bob Babb is taking Zero’s Subs to a new level. Next door to his sub shop on Midlothian Turnpike in Chesterfield County, the Zero’s franchisee has opened up Zero’s Sports Bar and Grill. Zero’s has been strictly a sub shop since 1967, when it began serving oven-baked sandwiches in Virginia Beach. “We
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