The following is a guest post from author and marketing specialist Michael Carney. Social Media is the hottest topic in marketing circles right now and many businesses are feeling pressured to get involved with social outlets such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Small wonder – eMarketer is reporting that social media has reached the tipping […]
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One of the often overlooked sections of this website is our directory. Over 2300 different bizops, franchises, dealerships and online opportunities are listed there. Here are companies we’ve posted about this week: 7-eleven a franchise Alphagraphics a franchise Anytime Fitness a franchise Arbonne International a business opportunity Arby’s a franchise Baguette Express a franchise Bakers
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Three words can best describe Angela and Karen Samuels and the business they run together. Those words are Sexy Bolder You, reports thestar.com. The words are displayed prominently in Voluptuous, a chain of stores in Toronto that sells trendy fashions in sizes 12 to 20 and is owned and operated by the sisters. But what
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New listing this week on the Business Opportunities Weblog Classifieds. Dvdnow Kiosks – Dvd Rental Business Opportunity Always Wanted To Be On The Ground Floor? An Complete Edu-tainment Business For Kids – Under $100! You Earn $1000 Commission Per Sale!! Direct Sales Professionals Increase Your Referrals With My Product $1000 Commission Per Sale New Company
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Fifteen year-old Christian Owens, founder of online advertising network Branchr, was recently named Enterprising Young Brit 2010. The Daily Mail gives the annual award to teen tycoons with startups in the United Kingdom, reports VentureBeat. Owens founded the startup, which counts MySpace as a publisher – to give you a sense of the prestige –
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The Florida-Times Union: When Susan Miller risked everything to help her son launch Bold City Brewery from the ground up in Jacksonville, she admits she didn’t even know if his beer was any good. She took a big risk when she quit her job and helped finance her son’s dream here. It wasn’t out of
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VentureBeat reports tha beverage giant Pepsi announced a new experiment around barcodes in collaboration with a startup called Stickybits. Using a barcode-reader application on a smartphone, users can scan barcodes on Pepsi products like soda cans or bottles and access videos and links hidden in the code. Users can also upload their own videos, photos
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The Daily News states that logging on to Make My Cake can be very dangerous. One look at the photos on this Web site – cupcakes dripping in buttercream frosting and fluffy cheesecake topped with cream cheese frosting swirls – could make you drop everything and rush off to one of two Make My Cake
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The Slate is reporting that the Gray Lady will no longer tweet. That’s according to the New York Times’ standards editor Phil Corbett, who is pleading with writers to avoid using the word in their copy whenever possible, invoking the paper’s disdain for “colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon.” There are tweet partisans: The Associated Press gave
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Business Wire: When a young college student started a sandwich shop around the corner from San Jose State University in the early 1970s, he had a simple recipe: fresh ingredients piled high atop fresh-baked bread for a price even college students would find appealing. His idea proved popular and, as the company rounds the corner
