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By Dana Olsen / Friday, February 10th, 2012 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Bonbon boom: Chocolate retailers expect sweetest Feb. 14 in a decade
It’s a sweet year to be a chocolate shop in the Tri-Counties.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 13th, 2012 / Features, Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Web wars: Impulse brings faster broadband to Santa Barbara
Impulse Advanced Communications is targeting mid-sized and small businesses with a new broadband offering in the Santa Barbara area.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, January 13th, 2012 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Hanging tight: Employee-owned firm equips search and rescue teams
Over the past two years, thriving CMC Rescue has become 100 percent employee-owned.
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By Stephen Nellis / Thursday, December 29th, 2011 / Latest news, Small Business / 1 Comment
A Newbury Park-based company is vowing to fight charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it broke telemarketing rules by helping clients make so-called “robocalls,” violate the national “Do Not Call” registry and mask caller IDs. The FTC alleges the calls generated thousands of complaints from consumers. Peter Turpel, the founder of Phone On-Hold Marketing Read More →
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, December 23rd, 2011 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Merry Christmas, dude: Santa Barbara card company goes with mellow vibe
Brittany and Nick Presniakov have built Salty Dog Publishing over the past five years.
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, December 23rd, 2011 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Piecing together a career: Former engineer finds success with quilting store
When Eileen Alber was laid off from her job as an aerospace engineer in 1999, she turned her lifelong love of sewing into a quilting company and, 12 years later, business is booming in the face of a tough economy.
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