September 7, 2010

Free Webinar On Portland Senior Care Franchise Opportunity With Home Care Assistance

OregonLive.com: Home Care Assistance, a leading international provider of non-medical, in-home care for seniors, will be hosting a free Senior Care Franchise Webinar for the Portland area on Friday, September 10th at 11a.m. The webinar will serve as an informational opportunity for those interested in starting a meaningful, lucrative business in Portland where one can […]

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A Virtual Happiness Coach

Interviews

Sometimes it’s work or sometimes it’s stress at home, but we all know what it is like to feel a little down. No one can be happy 100% of the time, well except maybe Logan Lindabury. Logan has made it is job to help others stay positive. Through his website, Happiness Can Help, and consultations,

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What’s In A Name? Potential Pitfalls.

Ideas

Kori Stanton’s online cookie business seemed to be off to a promising start last spring when its goodies were featured on the “Rachael Ray Show.” But, according to The Wall Street Journal, the free national publicity had one unexpected and unwelcome consequence: A company with a different but similar name threatened Stanton with a trademark-infringement

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How One Man Found His Fitness Routine And Lost 70 Pounds At Fitness Together Franchise

Franchise Site

Franchising.com: “I had tried everything,” said Andy Ringle, who was 307 pounds when he walked into a Fitness Together studio in Temecula, Calif., last year. Today, more than 70 pounds lighter, many people don’t even recognize him. Ringle credits Fitness Together owner Ed Ferrell, his certified personal trainer. “Before joining Fitness Together, I did it

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Is Australia Too Franchised?

Franchise Site

Sydney Morning Herald: Thereâ€™s no doubting the success of franchising. More than 80,000 franchised outlets had a whopping $130 billion in sales and employed 413,000 people, the 2008 Franchising Council of Australia survey showed. Those figures should be much higher when the next report is released later this year. The franchising sector is clearly doing

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Get The Biz: Express Worldwide Couriers

Franchise Site

Wokingham Times: The business: Express Worldwide, 91 Wokingham Road, Reading, RG6 1LH, (0118) 909 0564, [email protected], www.expressworldwide.co.uk The boss: Director Craig Atkins, 40, spent nearly 18 years in the retail trade from 1986 to 2003 managing multi sites and being responsible for the audit trail of more than 90 stores. In 2003 he set up

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Party Hosts Keep Tupperware Brand Fresh

MLM Site

Naperville Sun: The durable plastic storage containers with the burping lids are a kitchen staple that haven’t gone out of style for nearly 65 years. Maybe it’s because Tupperware knows how to keep up with the Joneses. Or maybe it’s because Tupperware users around the world know the product is just as reliable as it

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Conflict Shouldn’t Surprise Franchisors And Franchisees

Franchise Site

Small Business Trends: A recent Wall Street Journal article described several conflicts between Burger King and its franchisees. In one of these disagreements, three franchisees sued Burger King over the franchisorâ€™s effort to get them to keep their outlets open later at night. While the courts will have to decide the legal question of whether

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Small Biz Franchise Relations â€“ Rights And Responsibilities

Franchise Site

â€Žlonad News: Franchising is a fast-developing form of business in the US. Take into consideration some facts about it: according to the International Franchise Association, there were more than 3,000 franchise brands with 901,093 franchise establishments in the USA at the beginning of 2010. These figures can be compared to the European Union, where, as

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Franchising Your Biz: Why, When And How To Do It

Franchise Site

SmartCompany.com.au: 1. Why franchise? Businesses franchise for different reasons, not all of which are apparent in advance, and which may change in their relative importance over time as the business develops. 1.1 To accelerate growth and increase market share Franchising can provide a business with opportunities to open in markets not previously accessible. As a

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