By NICK WINGFIELD The International Consumer Electronics Show, which will open on Tuesday in Las Vegas, is impossible to ignore. It will smother the city’s gigantic convention center with gadgets and those who make and…
By SHAILA DEWAN Maybe it is time to start calling the glass half full. Employers in the United States added 200,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday, a report that came on the…
Achieve financial security over a retirement that could last 20 years or more. By Mark Miller Work in retirement? It might sound like a contradiction in terms, but we’re looking for ways to achieve financial…
By Jeremy Vohwinkle Personal finance covers a wide variety of money topics including budgeting, expenses, debt, saving, retirement and insurance among others. Understanding how each of these topics work together and affect each other is…
If you are considering opening a trampoline center, trampoline park or trampoline arena, step one is being sure to avoid the mistakes that other entrepreneurs learned the hard way. Thinking about opening a trampoline center?…
REDLINE SPORTS comes to Fort Lauderdale in January 2013 REDLINE SPORTS REDLINE SPORTS Family Entertainment Centers, Fun Centers, Amusement Parks and Children’s Entertainment Centers – the resources you are looking for to design, build, open…
In the amusement and family entertainment center business there are a few key activities : Laser Tag, Go-Karts, Indoor Playgrounds, Amusement Rides, Coin Operated Games and Miniature Golf being the most prominent. For the successful…
By QUENTIN HARDY Earlier this week we published an article about Google Apps, and Google’s struggle to displace Microsoft Office and Sharepoint inside large corporations. While Google has worked without a large consulting partner, it…
By BRIAN X. CHEN A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated…
By STUART ELLIOTT THE song “Blues in the Night” includes a line that begins, “From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe.” Now, marketers are studying the results of a campaign that extends from…
By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
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Avoiding Foreclosure in Oviedo Florida The Obama Administration has implemented a number of programs to assist homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure and otherwise struggling with their monthly mortgage payments. The majority of these…
Foreclosure is the legal process by which a mortgage lender (mortgagee), or other lien holder, obtains a termination of a mortgage borrower (mortgagor)’s equitable right of redemption, either by court order or by operation of…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Arrington, whose influentialTechCrunch blog covers Silicon Valley, has started a venture capitalfund to invest in start-ups, including some that he and his staff write about. The $20 million CrunchFund is…
Franchises are embracing the possibilities of social media platforms like Facebook to extend their brands. Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free lunch obviously never visited the Facebook page of Einstein Bros. Bagels….
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
On Wednesday, December 15th CNBC will air an hour long program, “Behind the Counter: The Untold Story of Franchising.” I can’t recall any television program devoting this much time to the franchise industry. The documentary…
The documentation that is provided by the franchisor to a potential franchisee prior to the completion of the sale is being replaced by a new document not only with a different name but also with…
Written by Garth Snider on October 22nd, 2010 There has been a lot of ink spilled recently about the plight of the small businessman in the recession. In particular, there has been a great deal of…
December 2, 2010 Darren Rovell CNBC 900 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 Dear Darren: Thank you for the time you have recently spent with members of my staff to discuss your upcoming CNBC…
By: Jessica Golden Laurie Valadez spent years in corporate finance but had always been a passionate dog owner and dreamed of starting her own dog business. For more than two years she researched various dog-oriented…
By KERMIT PATTISON Jim Denney faced a common choice: buy a franchise or start an independent company? He was an experienced business owner in Scotia, N.Y., near Albany, who had spent a year investigating a…
By KERMIT PATTISON When Remi Tessier recently decided to open a pizza franchise, he got a big surprise: it was not going to be easy to get financing from a bank. Mr. Tessier had owned…
By SABRINA TAVERNISE WASHINGTON — When workers in a McDonald’s restaurant in Canton, Ohio, opened their paychecks this month, they found a pamphlet urging them to vote for the Republican candidates for governor, Senate and…
By PHYLLIS KORKKI YOU looked wonderful on your résumé. Your references raved about you. The interview went swimmingly. Yet you didn’t get the job. Oh, no: did they see that Facebook photo of you dancing…
1) Economic Turmoil – It’s not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it’s not the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The real economic stimulus is … wait for it ……
By: Sean Ludwig Unemployment numbers are sky high, but there is a silver lining: there are lots of great online resources to help job seekers find work. As we all know by now, unemployment numbers…
We’ve spent 31 years perfecting Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500®, the world’s first, best and most comprehensive franchise ranking based on objective, quantifiable measures of franchise success. So if you’re looking for an opportunity to be in…
Advantages of Franchising Your Business While franchising provides franchisees with a proven system and the support of a much larger organization, the advantages to the franchisor are even more significant. Capital: Since franchisees use their…
Find out how these 5 families run their companies without starting World War III. By Rich Mintzer Home-based businesses and family-operated businesses each have their own minefields of potential problems, but the one pitfall they…
By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Paul Maritz, , president and C.E.O. of the software firm VMware, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some important leadership lessons for you? A. I’ve…
By ADAM NAGOURNEY LAS VEGAS — There are many cities across the country that are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the recession. This is not one of them. The nation’s…
Retired IRS Mr. Smith, an independent truck driver, lives in Brunswick, Ga. In 2009 he earned $62,000 after business expenses as an owner-operator. Mr. Smith works on the road for months at a time and…
Retired IRS Agent A new client recently came to my office because the IRS had filed a lien against him for back taxes plus penalties and interest in the amount of $278,000 for the tax…
Retired IRS Agent As a retired IRS agent and small-business owner I know the best way to save money on your income tax return is to take advantage of all deductions and business expenses. The…
Retired IRS Agent Taking advantage of all of Uncle Sam’s deductions so that you can save on your income taxes involves knowing what you can write off as a business expense and keeping track of…
Before filing your tax return you should review your tax return for possible errors which may delay your refund. Here are the most common errors: • Failure to sign the tax return. If you are…
Elect Matthew Schwartz for Oviedo City Council, Group IV (Oviedo, Florida) “I am committed to working hard to win this election. If elected, I will work diligently to keep Oviedo in the “Top 100 places…
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ Published: September 20, 2010 Echoing the slowdown in activity that has hit Wall Street’s biggest institutions, Bank of America plans to cut several hundred jobs in its investment banking unit this…
By ROBB MANDELBAUM In the debate over the effect of the expiring Bush tax cuts on small business, it’s already possible to do the math. And the Obama administration is pointing to the tax savings…
By Diane Schmidt, About.com Guide Finding the best places to live takes a little research. Many companies and organizations have done a lot of the legwork for you, having compiled data and conducted surveys to…
By PHYLLIS KORKKI Published: September 11, 2010 Does earning a higher salary make you happier? It’s an issue that tugs at many of us: the tradeoff between a satisfying job and a satisfying paycheck. Students…
By STEVE LOHR Published: September 11, 2010 MODERN tools of data analysis — fast computers, smart software and vast troves of digital information — often open the door to new insights. Consider the subject of jobs…
