Small Business
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Couple's 1-800-Radiator franchise turns into hot investmentOct 31, 2021 9:31 pm - In an effort to keep customers cool, husband-and-wife team John and Kimberly Czaplicki recently expanded their business into Volo. The Czaplicki's launched their 1-800-R...
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Body Shop founder was 'Queen of Green'
Oct 31, 2021 8:39 pm - LONDON -- Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64....
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Web sites affordable for small businessesOct 31, 2021 8:32 pm - Dave Beasley of Buffalo Grove, a Web designer and owner of DB Consulting Group Inc. (www.dbcginfo.com), believes small businesses should take advantage of the Internet, ...
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Small business helped by open mindOct 31, 2021 8:33 pm - "The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses" by Ray Silverstein, Sourcebooks, Inc., $14.95. Entrepreneurs can be a stubborn, "It's MY business" group of people. Maybe th...
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Misspellings common on resumesOct 31, 2021 8:27 pm - A lesson for jobseekers: Run spellcheck before you send out your resume. Up to two-thirds of small businesses report finding misspellings in half of the resumes they rec...
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Steer clear of career killers
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Dinner by Design sold, continued growth promisedOct 31, 2021 8:16 pm - Dinner by Design confirmed Friday founder Julie Duffy sold her firm, but she will continue to be its iconic mother-on-the-run making family dinners. The Grayslake entrep...
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Briefs: Print Perfect moves to new buildingOct 31, 2021 7:21 pm - BATAVIA -- Print Perfect, founded in an Aurora garage nearly 20 years ago, has moved its more than 20 employees into a new, state-of-the-art building in Batavia less tha...
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Park Place Interiors is home for design ideasOct 31, 2021 7:18 pm - Kathleen Newhouse likes to show people how to put together a room. That's why her shop, Park Place Interiors at 407 S. Third St. in downtown Geneva, is set up in vignett...
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Marketing firm starts anew with Dorn at the helmOct 31, 2021 6:55 pm - This year, more than three decades after his father started a marketing agency in the basement of the family's Palatine home, James Dorn purchased the business from his ...