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7 Considerations When Opening An Auto Repair Shop

Strategy Driven

Consider factors such as population density, local competition, zoning regulations, access to transportation, and parking spaces. Understanding the local market can give you a better idea of the types of services and pricing that you should offer. Additionally, it’s important to stay competitive in your market.

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Should You Start a Packaging Design Business?

Strategy Driven

And, while the design itself is very important – after all, this is what tempts consumers to find out more about what you’re selling – it’s also vital that the packaging protects whatever’s inside it during the transportation, storage, and distribution process.

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What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due

Kevin Eikenberry

What if that person were retasked to evaluate what the fair market value of the transport of media is? It was clear to most of us at about 3 minutes in that this makes no sense; what a gross misuse of resources. The entire pricing structure should probably be re-evaluated.

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How Society Benefits If We Make It Easier For Refugees To Enter The Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

The study, which explored the Swiss labor market, found that refugees were more likely to find work in their first five years if they lived in an area where a large community existed of people who shared their nationality, language or ethnicity. Ethnic support.

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Leadership Lessons from Outward Bound

Skip Prichard

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. Both men had recognized that global markets were opening and posed a risk to the company. Kohler’s multicultural team of associates even considered the color of the filtration system to avoid offending any culture.

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2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk

Next Level Blog

  After all, what's the market for six figure sports cars?    The plans are that SpaceX's Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule will be used to transport astronauts and equipment back and forth from the International Space Station.    Very sweet.    Not very practical though. 

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The $300 House: Go, Go, Go!

Harvard Business Review

The Marketing Challenge. Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Winners will be selected by the community and a panel of judges and will receive a scholarship to a June "prototyping workshop" led by COMMON , a social business incubator.