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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Bakery

Tips to start a bakery include securing equipment financing, building your brand and obtaining licenses. Bakeries bring joy and convenience to their communities, but the customers aren’t the only ones who will benefit from this small business. The owner has a lot to gain too. Imagine calling a kitchen filled with tasty treats your office.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Opening a Hair Salon

Choosing a location and obtaining insurance are two of six steps to get your hair salon off the ground. If you’re interested in starting a new business, specifically opening a salon, you’re in good company: The beauty industry is worth over $56 billion annually, and hair care is the largest segment with 86,000 locations nationwide.

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How to Start a Floral Business: Tips on Seed Money, More

While operating a profitable floral shop is not easy, you don’t need a lot of capital to get started. When the flower shop where she worked closed, Amy McManus figured she could open her own in the Baltimore neighborhood of Canton, which lies along the city’s outer harbor. It didn’t faze her that she had

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