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Sagar Ratna to expand overseas via franchising
New Delhi-based Sagar Ratna Hospitalities, owners of Swagath and Sagar Ratna chain of restaurants, will venture into overseas markets in the coming years. The company has already identified franchisees in places like Bangkok, in the UAE and Canada. It is planning to set up around 250 outlets in overseas markets in the next five years, Hospitality Biz India has reported, citing its top official.

Seasons of Success: How Sharp Took His Hotel To The Top
“I started just from building one [hotel], it worked so let’s build another, and it worked so three went to four,” recalls Sharp. “It’s a matter of what I call stepping-stones.” He may not have set out to create the world’s largest network of luxury hotels, but that is exactly what happened. In the over forty years since he first entered the business, Sharp has taken the hotel industry by storm, transforming the idea of service and quality, and doing things on his own terms. What were the factors that helped this Canadian hotelier succeed?
Fast Food Fury: How DeLuca Created a Franchising Phenomenon
“What's happening to us is beyond whatever I imagined,” says DeLuca, looking back on his career. “If you told me 30 years ago that one day I'd be sitting in a Subway store in Russia, I'd have said you were crazy.” DeLuca went from being just another kid in Brooklyn to being at the top of an international fast food phenomenon. How did he do it?

China's Boomtowns
The current National Geographic has a fascinating feature on capitalism in China's boomtowns, cities like Lishui that are growing so fast that city planners have razed 108 hilltops to accomodate the runaway growth.

Riding the Blue Highways
A summary of a new Jeff Rubin of CIBC report on the excess capacity in the U.S. auto industry: The U.S. is producing too many vehicles, according to a new report from CIBC World Markets, and sales already at a 34-year low will likely drop another 30 to 40 per cent and may never recover to previous levels.
The Clueless CEO
How can such an intelligent and capable executive be so clueless in today's demanding business environment? How can a company be so blind to pending challenges? The answer to these questions and a peek at the not so distant future is why many chief executives are doomed to fail over the next five years.

There are always options ...
If you have ever been caught in a situation where it seems like there are no options the reality is that there are always options!

Lite Bite intends to become Rs 500 crore brand by 2015
Feb 15, 2010: Lite Bite Foods, promoted by Amit Burman, vice chairman of FMCG major Dabur India, in his individual capacity, is aiming to become a Rs 500-crore food company by 2015. The company operates a bunch of eatery brands including Subway, Fresco, Asia 7, Punjab Grill, Baker Street and Pino's Pasta Pizza.
The next big things
Society is changing fast. Economic uncertainty, technology, climate change, extremism and the internet are all accelerating the pace of change. For many well established business models the writing is on the wall. Now more than ever constant innovation is the only route to sustained success.
Forget Last Rites: The New Opportunity for Publishers in Online Advertising
Don’t call in the pallbearers yet. In a year characterized by the death of publications and publishers struggling to monetize assets, it’s not all death and gloom.

The Role of Small Business in Unmanned Systems Development
Getting funding for developing technology is tough, always has been and always will be. Unmanned systems (robotic and remote control) technology is no exception, but it has an advantage: there is great interest in having machines do work in hazardous situations where human safety is at risk. Who gets the contracts for developing these new technologies that the DOD says it wants? Federal investment in research and development has always focused on big business and top-tier prime contractors. This article shows how small businesses can avail themselves of opportunities created just for them via Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR).
How to grow your Ideal Clients by 25% with zero cost of sales
We are big fans of “growing loyalty” among Ideal Clients over pretty much any other business building tactic—it’s the lowest cost sales activity you will ever engage in, since you are already doing business with them, you already know what they want and need, and you can easily find out if they are being wooed by someone else. How easy is that?
The Search for the Best Storage Solution
The search is on for the one great, the one indispensible storage solution...the Holy Grail for content users everywhere! Flash folks say they've got the solution. Drive people know they've got it. Tape/optical? They're in the middle of the frey too.

How To Organise Your Financial Future
Some time ago I spent a planning day with a new client to determine exactly what she wanted to achieve in her business over the next 12 months, where she is now and the exact steps she needed to take to reach her goals. On questioning Sophie about her income and expenditure, she told me 'my accountant handles that'. She had no idea what was happening with her finances, only that there seemed to be enough money when she needed it. This was not an empowering answer! Sophie's head was in the clouds or should I say buried in the sand. You cannot allow someone else to 'look after your financial affairs'. No one else is going to look after your money better than you do.
Search for the Best Storage Solution
The world never seems to run out of things to say, things to show. Storage could be one of the next best continual opportunities for entrepreneurs..
SMART Organizational Goals
This article is designed to provide you with a tried and true approach to organizational goal setting. The best goals are smart goals. SMART is a handy acronym for the five characteristics of well-designed goals. SMART goals make for smart organizations. In our experience, many supervisors and managers neglect to work with their employees to set goals together.
Seize the Opportunity!
How successful you are really only depends on how you perceive the opportunities that surround you. Take my trip mattress shopping for example…
Who Doesn't Enjoy Eating?
Are you interested in a franchise opportunity that involves something you love? Eating is America’s favorite pastime. Franchises dealing with food are benefiting immensely from the current generation because so many people enjoy eating out. No hassle of cooking or cleaning up, just go out for dinner. Two franchise opportunities that are growing quickly are: Papa Gino’s and D’Angelo Grilled Sandwiches.

Compassion International Invests USD 5 Million in Opportunity International to Develop Microfinance in Africa
Compassion International, one of the world’s largest Christian child development organizations, will invest USD 5 million over the next five years in fellow Christian microfinance institution (MFI) Opportunity International. With this funding Opportunity International will expand its microfinance operations in Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda, offering microloans, savings accounts, insurance and business training to the families of Compassion-sponsored children and other community members.
Storage is All About Performance ... Plus
Semiconductor media (commonly called flash or SSD) delivers all the speed, performance consumers want and demand...at a price. The alternative to keep pace with people's thirst for more and more content is hard drive storage...lots and lots of hard drive storage. Content continues to be produced, distributed, mashed up, viewed, enjoyed, stored. The cloud isn't the answer because ultimately content comes to rest in someone's huge storage facility (endless rows of drives) and bad guys come in and borrow the informaiton they want/need for their "business." Keeping a good balance between flash speed and hard drive capacity requires practice...lots and lots of practice.

Youth and Entrepreneurship: Part 2
Participants in the second part of this interactive session explored some of the most dynamic political, economic and cultural forces that will either empower or suppress the region s ability to create 50 million new jobs in the next five years. The challenge is daunting, all agreed. But new opportunities open every day.

Youth and Entrepreneurship: Part 1
Participants disagreed over the notion that "entrepreneurs are born, not made." They debated "if youth is a condition of age or mindset." They disputed whether "governments role is to create an enabling environment" for business, or "just get out of the way." But they all agreed these forces must work in concert in the Arab world, and fast.

Points of Intervention
This section is a walk through the MicroStart process, with specific recommendations. It focuses on the key areas of intervention SUM has identified. SUM's goal is to develop simple, efficient, and meaningful procedures, and these suggestions are offered in that spirit.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a Coach
Operating a small business successfully is not easy. Only 66% of new small businesses make it past the first two years, just 49% make it to 4 years, and barely 39% make it to 6 years. Why do they fail?
Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks FAQs
The owner of a registered copyright enjoys the ability of blocking the unauthorized copying or public performance of a work protected by copyright. Depending on how old a work is, whether or not copyright was renewed, when the work was published (if at all), and whether or not it is a work for hire, the U.S. copyright term for a work may be 28 years, 56 years, the life of the author plus 50 years, 75 years from the publication date, or 100 years from the date of creation. The reader will appreciate that these terms are much longer than the 17-year or 20-year term of a U.S. utility patent.
Lesson #2: It Takes Passion to Win the Fight
White might not have been a stellar student, but thanks to his achievements with the UFC, his high school was nevertheless proud of him. So much so, that they even invited him back to deliver the commencement address twenty years after his own graduation. “It was pretty cool,” said White. “If you would have asked me ten years ago if this is where I would have been in ten years, I would have laughed in your face.”

How to ensure your business becomes an asset not a liability
After ten years the plan was to retire: either Trevor could sell his business and generate a retirement fund, or pass the business onto his children with it paying him a yearly consultancy fee to see him through his twilight years. But after ten years neither was possible. Nobody would buy his business and his children perceived it to be a liability.

Is there a Place for Destiny in Your Life?
I recently read an article online that asked the question, "Where will you be in 25 years?" then invited me to first consider where I was 25 years ago as an way of introducing the role of destiny in our lives. I found the exercise interesting and worthwhile so I thought I'd share it with you. Where were you 25 years ago in 1983? Me, I was 35 years old. I'd graduated from veterinary college 9 years previously, and I had purchased my own veterinary clinic (a former out patient clinic of a larger hospital) for the rip roaring price of one dollar, which was about all the savings I had at the time. The rest of the purchase price, if memory serves some $26,000 was financed at the local bank. Not long after, the loan that started at 12% shot up to 19%.
Getting The Best Home Loans Using A Mortgage Broker
A mortgage broker can be of significant aid to those trying to receive the finest home loans to be equal to their exclusive situations. Over the years, in fact over the last few years, the plea for home loans has grown exponentially, and this has little connection with any rise in the birth rate 20 years ago.

Hedging Your Bets
Anyone can grow an international business today because of all the tools that are available to them. In the next five years commerce and communication are going to merge globally and many billionaires will be made. It will be up to you to be part of this new group of entrepreneurs and billionaires and make the next 10 years be the years that set you apart from the crowd.
Home Loans - Insights On How Working Together With A Brokerage Can Save You Time And Cash
A home loan broker is definitely of significant assistance to those attempting to find the very best mortgage loans to accommodate their personal situations. Through the years, the fact is that through the most current years, the interest in mortgage loans has increased tremendously, this also has not only to do with any kind of boost in birth rate 20 years ago.

THE MERITS OF SCREWING UP
Has there ever been a time when you were told you were a screw up? I have this idea that there is another way to look at this thing called life that may or may not be helpful to you. It is that life is comprised of one screw up after another. Yes, you heard me right! Oh, we don’t mean to but one way or another we do and in my case more times than you might imagine, especially earlier in my life. One of the biggest screw ups, if not the biggest I ever made was to spend too much of my time and too many years trying to please others so that they would like and accept me. This one monumental screw up that sat like a dark cloud over my head for so many years was the main reason for a whole series of screw ups that followed over the first thirty-five years of my life. Yes, you heard me right, 35 years!

Riding into Risk - Only In My Mind!
Many years later after having my children and long after the risk taking years – I re-learned to ride a motorcycle. Only this time the bike was 3 times the size and weighed in at about 487 lbs. I learned not only how to ride it safely by taking a course – but also learned how to lift it – in case I ever fell or dropped it. (which I did a few times!) I rode for four years before we moved and sold the bike. Three years went by before we decided to get another motorcycle.

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