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Nonprofit Supports Community Entrepreneurs Amid Pandemic

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“Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I You manage the misses. They don’t have VC funds. I tell them that business is a game of misses, not hits,” he said.

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Finding Falafel Success On Main Street

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Years later, when he found an opportunity to open the restaurant’s first franchise, D’Alessio was ecstatic about bringing the taste he loved during his college days to Boston. The restaurant brought falafel to Boston in a whole new style. as an 18-year-old George Washington University student. Much like Washington, D.C.,

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. The DineVite dashboard gives restaurants who have signed up to the platform insight to data that allows them to manage and coordinate the dining offers based on their own individual businesses.

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Protein Bar And Kitchen Customers Earn Loyalty Points No Matter How They Pay

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Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. Because they are special to us.”.

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The Big Bucks Behind Sleep (Or Lack Thereof)

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It’s important for us as a pharmacy benefit management company, as a big retail pharmacy, to endorse digital therapeutics when they work as good as or better than medications one can take by mouth,” Dr. Brennan said. “We Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. It was chosen, according to Dr. Troyen A. But does it really work?

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Why Publicity Stunts Go Wrong So Easily

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Actually managing to grab customers’ attention with whatever eye-popping experiment one is hoping to roll out is no small feat – particularly in an era when everyone and everything is trying to go viral and snag a few seconds of consumers’ time. Deep thinkers on the Netflix social media team. Teddy Bear Fans Gone Wild.

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The Week In Very Weird Commerce

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Nordstrom may have failed to boost buzz for their edgy merchandise with the run of dirty jeans, but they did manage to give Reebok a bit of a boost. The drink was so popular it often sold out, and baristas took to social media tearfully begging people to stop ordering it. And this story gets funnier in at last two regards.

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