Small Business
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Spas look for separate niches to lure customersApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Opening a spa at a time when consumers are cutting back on discretionary spending can be rough. The owners of two separate suburban spas have launched their businesses a...
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Buy a shirt, help the environment at Algonquin shopApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Mike Melamed and his family had visited a Peace Frogs store in Michigan and loved it. While shopping on the company's Web site one day, they saw there were opportunities...
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Marble business sticking to its foundationsApr 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Tom Wienckowski launched his countertop business 20 years ago in a 4,000-square-foot building in South Elgin. Since then, the Schaumburg business owner has grown Marble ...
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Gather data, build community to boost Web resultsApr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Your business has a Web site. Does anyone visit? More importantly, asks Chuck Thomas, do you know who visits your site, what path they followed to get there and what pa...
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Couple opens new salon, spaApr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - For the past two decades, Anthony Scimeca and his wife, Karen, have passed a vacant lot near their Elk Grove Village home. Through the years, they'd talk about how it wo...
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New Hanover Park auto repair shop could be greenest everApr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Between the plant-covered roof, solar panels and electric car plug-in stations, Steve Leffler dares anyone to show him a greener auto repair shop than the one he just op...
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Mother, daughter blend experience, love for animals into businessApr 20, 2009 11:00 pm - For years, Teri Hoppe and her daughter, Kim Fickel have talked about opening their own business together. Using their previous business experience and their love for ani...
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Bradco Supply to take over vacant facility in WaucondaApr 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Wauconda will welcome a new business to town when Bradco Supply moves into a 55,000-square-foot facility on Barrington Road that has sat vacant for a year. The national ...
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Part-time CFO a full-time job for outsourced controllerApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Need a CFO but can't justify the expense? Got a CFO and can't justify the expense? You may want to talk to Tony Battaglia. He has served as chief financial officer for a...
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Elgin freight company keeps on truckin'Apr 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Five years ago Bob Kuehn started Nationwide Freight Systems on his own, in his basement. He hit the phones, and started working to build his business from ground up. He'...