NY Times: Mark Hatch sees the revolution going something like this: Wealthy, love-handled Americans will turn off their televisions, put down their golf clubs and step away from their Starbucks coffees. Then they will direct their disposable income and free time toward making things – stuff like chairs, toys and, say, synthetic diamonds. They will […]
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The business card creativity stream keeps on flowing…. On the heels of the business card catapult and business card penny cannon – and not to mention the resignation letter cake – there’s now the locally baked business card cookie! The Boston Herald says Danvers pastry chef Kelly Delaney, owner of the Cakes for Occasions bakery,
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Jill Cakert says girls softball changed her life. Cakert, 52, is now an assistant coach of the Atlantic City High School varsity girls softball team. One thing Cakert didn’t like about coaching softball was hollering across the field to instruct her players, which caused her to lose her voice when her team participated in multiple-game
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Some food bloggers are known for their restaurant reviews, others for their creative recipes, but Amy Cao of AmyBlogsChow.com is known for her “Stupidly Simple Snacks” videos, says The NY Daily News. I happen to be a food blogger who doesn’t cook, and people get a kick out of that,” says the Brooklynite. While Cao
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If you sell or give away PDF ebooks, you’ll want to check out Ross McKillop’s tutorial over at Simple Help. It will guide you through the process of converting PDF files so that they can be read in iBooks, the iPad application. iBooks uses an ebook format called ePub. Using a free converter application (and
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Franchising.com: With 50 million Americans expected to file their taxes this final week of the tax filing season, Liberty Tax expects that the late crowd is procrastinating because they owe. For the many procrastinators who owe, there are options to avoid additional penalty and interest charges. Liberty Tax Service has extended its operating hours for
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PR-USA.net: Good Earth Coffeehouse and Bakery, a Western Canada based success story is proud to announce that it has opened another location in Edmonton. It is located in the community of Summerside at 936 – 91st Street (Ellerslie Road and 91st St) in a beautiful brand new location. The Grand Opening event will take place
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Franchise Wire: The inaugural quarterly survey of New Zealand franchising confidence finds a net positive outlook toward business conditions, franchisor growth prospects, and many key contributors to franchise system growth. However, there are some worrying signs. In particular, franchisors and service providers share concerns around access to financing, franchisee operating costs and franchisee profitability. Franchisors
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FranchiseWorks.com: Molly Maid, the leading residential cleaning franchise with thousands of signature navy and pink cars on the road, announced it has signed six new franchise agreements in the First Quarter of 2010. “As more and more people turn to the professionals for cleaning help, companies like Molly Maid are growing fast,†said Kristi Mailloux,
StreetInsider.com: Shares of California Pizza Kitchen are giving back some ground today following two days of upside as the company announced late Friday that it put itself up for sale and has been soliciting interest from buyers including private-equity firms. The stock surged 14% on Friday and added another 1.6% yesterday but is down about
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