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- Fla. entrepreneur launches new spa
Longtime entrepreneur Irene Adjan is launching Reflections Spa & Wellness Center in Brooksville, Fla., and she says she's not worried about the slow economy. The new spa, located next to Adjan's salon, will capture massage, pedicure and other spa business that she was losing to other establishments when she focused solely on salon work, she said. Hernando Today (Fla.)
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- New Six Sense Spa debuts in India
Resort and spa management firm Six Senses has opened what is now India's largest spa, a 90,000-square-foot center that focuses on holistic wellness. The spa was created to resemble a traditional Indian home, and offers a wide range of treatments, ranging from makeup application to colonic hydrotherapy. Express Hospitality (India)
(11/2012)
 | Get your employer to fund your MBA
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- Cruises and unplugged getaways top list of upcoming travel trends
Growth in Chinese shopping tourism. A boom in cruise and railway tourism. Gadget-free hotels that give guests a chance for technology detox. Those are just a few of the key travel and shopping trends experts are predicting for the near future. Another: A growth in tourism to the Middle East, especially by Indian tourists shopping for precious metals. Reuters
(11/5)
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- How monitoring social media can help your marketing efforts
Entrepreneurs who want to market their products can use social media to find answers to key questions such as who might be interested in their products and which users tend to have influence over their peers, Lee Odden writes. The data derived from analytics "can provide direction for optimizing social media marketing efforts for better performance, whether it's different topics for blog posts, words used in tweets, or types of images shared on Pinterest," Odden writes. ClickZ
(11/5)
- 5 ways you're driving your employees crazy
Even with the best of intentions, many bosses drive their workers absolutely crazy, writes Julie Winkle Giulioni. To boost performance, leaders should stop using employees as idea guinea pigs and simply focus on removing irritants such as red tape, unclear expectations and time-wasting activities. "Employee engagement, motivation, and results are less about introducing new leadership behaviors and more about just stopping the stuff that makes employees crazy," Giulioni writes. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership
(11/5)
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- 3 steps to finding the most profitable customers
It's critical to create a profile of your ideal client to help you find the customers that will be most profitable for your business, John Jantsch writes. "The first step is to figure out who has a problem you can solve and what their goals are for solving this problem," he writes. You should then identify which behaviors you are looking for in an ideal client, he writes. Duct Tape Marketing
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- Where to find financing with a flawed credit history
Having good credit can be a key factor in securing a loan, but there are some ways to get financing even if your credit isn't spotless, Tom Gazaway of Hawkeye Management writes. For example, you could turn to equipment financing, purchase order financing or merchant cash advances, he writes. Small Business Trends
(11/6)
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