According to a story at CNBC.com, medical marijuana dispensaries are springing up in Colorado’s major cities like coffee shops, nail parlors, tanning salons or taco shops. Though Colorado voters amended the state Constitution to allow the use and sale of marijuana for a variety of medicinal reasons ten years ago, the number of patients and […]
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It’s happy hour, and Julia Royter, a pretty 26-year-old actress, flirts with a well-dressed man in a midtown bar. After a few minutes, she relents and hands over her BlackBerry Pearl for him to enter his number. But she’ll never call. It’s all a crafty promotional trick called stealth marketing. According to The New York
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Franchising.com: Primrose School Franchising Company announced today that it has secured financing for 30 new franchise owners to open 14 new private preschools in the past 5 months, since bringing on seasoned franchise finance professional John Teat to its team. Teat, Managing Director of Franchise Finance for Primrose Schools, was recently brought on to support
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George Nissen, inventor of the trampoline, died on April 7 at 96, but not before the acrobatics he first tried on the “bouncing rig” he built as a 16-year-old in 1930 (a canvas sheet stretched across a steel frame) became an Olympic event. Nissen was 86 and still capable of executing somersaults on his invention
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PR Newswire: 7-Eleven Inc., which began selling major new-release video games just over a year ago, now offers gamers a way to save a little green. Available in 3,000 U.S. 7-Eleven® stores, the new “Gamers Factory” selection of pre-owned games features the hottest titles at a fraction of their original retail price. And for the
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When was the last time you calculated how much time it took to sort through all of your business mail, sort through the junk and handle any money you sent or received? If you stop and think about it, you will probably see that simply going through your mail can be very time consuming. What
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‎PR Newswire: Bistro Babusan – Fresh Asian Fusion is proud to announce its grand opening on Monday, April 19, 2010 in The Village at Fairview, a northern suburb of Dallas in a 1.1 million square foot mixed retail complex developed by the MG Herring Group. The menu will highlight southern Asian cuisine developed by Bengal
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photo credit: psd It truly is amazing some of the things that customers will try to get away with in all kinds of situations. Take gift certificates for example. People automatically assume that these do not have any sort of expiration date on them (and some may not, but others do), or they try to
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‎franchise-net.com: Gold’s Gyms, a fitness club franchiser that is part of Irving-based TRT Holdings, Inc., has reached a 10-year agreement with an Abu Dhabi company to open 26 clubs in four countries along the Arabian Peninsula. Gold’s Gym International senior vice president Joel Tallman said Al Ahli Holding Group has agreed to set up the
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photo credit: mdid In spirit of tax season being upon us once again, I recently came across an article located on The Small Business Watchdog that informs of new recommendations that the IRS is making for future filing seasons. These new changes will not be in effect for the filing of 2010, but here is a
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