The video game market is bigger then ever and when one of my good friends says he would rather play Xbox with his kid then read him a book, then you know its a big market!
Simple fact is kids love video games (just as many adults to) and I do not see this market going backwards. Play […]

I still have a good laugh when I go into my stats for this website and I see someone hit this website with Netscape. I have had 9 Netscape hits this month out of the tens of thousands of the others. IF you using Netscape to view this site then post up a comment, it would […]

 
In the backrooms of the Midwest you will hear the term NAFTA come up. You won’t find too many people having anything good to say about it.  The reality is it hit the Midwest very hard but NAFTA was felt throughout the country so regardless of where you live it is worth taking an interest […]

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If you are a parent did you ever have trouble finding a tutor? Not anymore just check out your local strip mall!
Mathnasium locations assist young students with the difficulty of learning math. They are noted as to opening up 1 franchise per week now which is a rapid rate. As of today they could have […]

The wife and I have looked at these type of places before and always ended up at our local market. On the other hand we just put an a gourmet kitchen in our new home loaded up with Wolf to the nines so I could be a bit bias.
But I can already tell you this […]

I have to take a guess from readings that this is not really an one hour service but maybe it is? And if so I really have to ask what kind of staff you would carry to make that kind of marketing statement? We will take it as just a name for now but the […]

I have had some experience in commercial cleaning as I worked for a family member cleaning dealerships when I was in high-school for extra money. I also consulted for a local cleaning and maintenance startup but that was not a franchise. The good news is people are slobs and you wont find the owners of […]

A 6 figure ass whippin, that is what happened on this episode of the Celebrity Apprentice.
Omarosa prefaced all of this by noting she lost in a similar task last time so we could already see where this was going. As a two time losing project manager we know she was kept around for entertainment factor. […]

Crocs made an announcement today that they do not sell Crocs branded products to Costco and they have no intentions to. The news reports have noted that other companies have sold Crocs to Costco in an indirect fashion.
It looks like the stock dipped at bit at the end of the day and here is what […]

 
I had a few emails asking for more tech post’s so let get the ball rolling with this one.
Here you are sitting in your nice corporate office or home office for many. You have your nice desk, the Executive leather chair and all the nice wooden desk accessories to top it off. There is your wide […]

So it was time for a new work PC as I some how have found ways to bog my system down. Off I go and get a q6600 quad core, a nice set of ram and all the goodies to go with it.
After the system is built I start to think, XP or Vista? Part […]

Now the one thing I do not like about the tax service businesses is that the owners would never vote for a flat tax.
Instant Tax Service is like any other drive up and walk in tax processor with just another name. There is nothing wrong with that since the business is straight forward and store […]

Well like a quote from rounders “I took a shot and missed”. Well I said Tito would win and I was busted out. The funny part is if you caught the show then you seen Omarosa say she wanted to be project manager then as soon as Trump said the PM has high chances of being […]

So I am wasting time at a Walgreens while I wait for an RX and I decided to pickup one of the Entrepreneur magazines and see they had a list of the top 50 new franchises in 2008.  I bought it as I had an idea for the site.
So I thought for March I would read […]

This question came in asking if it costs money to get a business question answered.
And the answer is no!
Yes it could seem odd that someone is willing to help you without charging you but some of us are good people. You do not need to include any personal information if you do not want to […]

This question came in from Tristen about how to secure new business.
 And the answer is pick up the phone and make something happen!
Tristen, in the email you noted your coming from a communications company. After working with account managers from that industry I did learn that it is not a horrible business to be doing […]

After watching a recent tennis tournament and getting blasted with SAP commercials I had to do a bit more research and read some feedback. Most of the commercials were focused on the mid-sized business market which I happen to have my hands on an implementation of this size currently.
I am not a manufacturing guru by […]

I am not sure it is the same in your area but around here they have the “T-Mobile Hotspot” service which they charge for. I was waiting in the parking lot for a friend and I wanted to jump on the net using my iPod Touch and check a few things which I could not […]

We talk about the coffee business a lot on here since it is a booming billion dollar business that is highly competitive. And well, you have to drink a lot of coffee to write this much daily.
Dunkin Donuts decided to make small coffee drinks only 99 cents while Starbucks shut down to keep the gen […]