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Back-to-school spending is expected to be robust this year as parents replenish their kids’ wardrobes and backpacks after two years of weak demand for school gear.Having outgrown shoes, shirts and even backpacks they’ve used the last two years, children heading back to school this year will arrive in style. The National Retail Federation’s 2010 Consumer [...]

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With all of the rocking chairs and antique furniture sitting around Stephanie Grenadier’s new business you might think this was more like a cozy room than a massage studio. However she intentionally avoided that spa-like look reports the PatriotLedger.com.“(Spas) have a conveyor belt type of mentality. It’s like in and out,” she said. “You [...] [...]

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BallStars is a sports-affiliated business that uses a proprietary technology to reproduce full color images on sports paraphernalia, such as baseballs, soccer balls, baseballs, hockey pucks, volleyballs, and footballs. In addition to the sports balls, the photographs can also be applied to other curved surfaces and materials.Licensing a BallStars business offers plenty of opportunities to [...]

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The book Big Box Swindle:The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses raises important questions and suggests some interesting ideas that should be of interest to work at home entrepreneurs who struggle to overcome the “Big Boys’” economies of scale.The main argument against the “Big Box” and it’s “low low prices” [...]

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After selling mattresses for 38 years and founding an 80 store chain of mattress stores, Jerry Wilson knew a thing or two about mattresses. When he noticed a huge increase in the number of chemicals in the mattress he sold, Jerry Wilson thought he’d realized that there was a market for something different.After months [...] [...]

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