Small Business
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'Fro-yo' frenzy hits the Chicago marketJan 19, 2008 10:00 pm - A healthy, tart-tasting frozen yogurt is winding its way into the Chicago area. After making a huge splash on the East and West coasts, the hip product resembling soft-s...
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Dreaming of your own business? Read this firstNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - Charles Evans has a wife, three kids and a mortgage; a good job; and -- oh, oh -- a perhaps irresistible entrepreneurial urge "to do something on my own." That's likely ...
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Talking to employees can ease pain of benefit costsNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - The monthly premium for our company's health insurance coverage goes up 16 percent on January 1. Ouch. Again. But Luis Cruz says our increase "is not too bad. Twenty-...
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Small business in cross hairs of industry's fight against piracy
Nov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Michael Gaertner worried he could lose his company. A group called the Business Software Alliance was claiming his 10-person architectural firm was using u...
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Sounds Abound brings wedding quests to their feetNov 20, 2007 10:00 pm - From aluminum siding salesman to professional disc jockey, Ken Overbey has turned a part-time job and hobby into a $1 million-a-year business. In 1995 he walked away fro...
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Wrong turn reveals right location for Insty-PrintsNov 13, 2007 10:00 pm - When Brian Walsh and his father Pat took a wrong exit off the highway, they turned around at a defunct gas station. Later they seized on the land as a low-cost location ...
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A.C. Hair Design expands to larger Libertyville shopNov 12, 2007 10:00 pm - In celebrating her 12th year in business, Ana Campos recently moved to a larger salon in Libertyville. When Campos started A.C. Hair Design in 1995, she had one stylist ...
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Offshore sourcing can help small businesses competeNov 11, 2007 10:00 pm - OSI, Inc., is basing hopes for its Scruffer, a new barbecue grill cleaning device it hopes to sell to the big box stores, on a manufacturer in southern China. The cost,...
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Stores bracing for a red ChristmasNov 10, 2007 10:00 pm - When shoppers make their list and check it twice, they'll most likely cross a few items off. Splurges will be scarce this holiday season as shoppers and retailers take a...
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Movers & Shakers - Cook CountyNov 03, 2007 11:00 pm - The Illinois Landscape Contractors Association elected Arlington Heights resident Matt Synnestvedt of Synnestvedt & Associates, Northbrook, president of its board of dir...