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A small blender company rode a quirky YouTube video campaign to fame and fortune. Could you do the same? Probably not. But it might be fun to try.

Restaurants produce their own micro climates of smells and fragrances. Last Sunday I stopped into a small local grocery store. Although their deli was in full swing, the smells wafting through the air...

Building a website that puts business buyers and sellers together, then charging a subscription fee for the service must be fairly easy to do. Why else would there be over twenty sites doing...

What's that smell? It's most likely money. Hoover's noses around some celebrity fragrances and the companies responsible for them....

All you need to remember is the opening and the logic that follows the opening, not the literal words....

Denny's thoughts were simple – a good publicity stunt with a product that most people enjoy and eat frequently. It uncategorically wins the fatty meat with most appeal category and works across appetizer,...

Do you sell? Then you use scripts. Learn how to craft high impact, effective scripts for your presentations and to overcome objections....

Employees are working more hours but they’re not getting paid more. That’s good news and bad news for the economy.

BizGym offers a novel way to get a biz plan and sales pitch completed and vetted.

Google never fails to impress or provide local businesses with tools and resources to boost sales and increase growth. The key, however, is implementing and utilizing these tools effectively, but first, we must...

Crooked tablecloths and pictures send a message that someone isn't paying attention to details. And details, those small items frequently overlooked often mean more to customers than we realize.

What ever happened to honesty, integrity and straight-up truth in business relationships? You don't have to tell stories to get the job or the contract......

I had fun taking the Pew Research Center Quiz, How Millennial Are You?

The skill of teaming strong employees with less experienced or less talented employees is an art that good managers continually use to build a strong dining room team. Kitchen managers use the same...

The hospitality sector has had a fitful slumber. Hoover's takes a peek at who might be feeling a little more cozy.

Subway is the most loved fast-food franchise among Twitter and Facebook users.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are still playing political games with two key small business research grant programs that could do a lot to help the recovery.

Marketing has always been important to a restaurant's profitable success. But suddenly it may be the most important ingredient in any restaurant success story. And, with the marketing tools currently available, virtually without...

Restaurant staff training can never end if the doors are going to remain open to a dining room full of customers. And training doesn't just happen when employees are hired. Training must be...