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• … is when you have to because you can’t stand not starting it. It’s been on your mind, you’re sure it will work.
• … was actually years ago; but the second best time is now.
• … is when you’ve thought it through, you know the risks, and you have a good realistic sense of challenges, keys to success, and likelihood of failure.
• … is when you’re comfortable with your estimates of starting costs, sales, costs, and expenses. They feel like they are reasonable educated guesses.
• … is when your spouse or significant other says “do it” and not “don’t do it.” Businesses fail and it’s not always something you did or didn’t do. Will failing at your own business

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EVANSVILLE — A new McDonald’s Hamburgers restaurant may be built on Evansville’s North Side.

According to the Evansville-Vanderburgh Area Plan Commission, a McDonald’s is proposed for a site at 1617 Bartlett Ave., off U.S. 41 North and Maxwell Avenue.

Donna Holderfield, a zoning enforcement officer with the plan commission, said preliminary plans will be reviewed at a plan commission Site Review Committee meeting at 9:30 a.m. Monday

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We can talk about it all day, but it’s hard to do with the many things you face as a small business owner wearing too many hats. You can create a grand plan and fancy to-do list, but if you don’t focus on the important stuff and do it–well, then, it’s just a list. Teamly is a new type of task management tool–one that forces you to stay focused on priorities.

Teamly is an individual productivity tool, but it also serves as team performance management software. It has sh

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Capita bosses were doing the Lambeth walk yesterday as they picked up a £60m, 10-year contract with the London borough to deliver a range of services. The scope of the deal could be widened to make it worth up to £300m over time.

The work was won after a competitive tender, but it extends an existing relationship and will see the outsourcing group running the council’s call centres and collecting revenue, among other things.

We’ve been sceptical about the predictions of an outsourcing boom as Government – both central and local – urgently seeks savings as funding is slashed. When

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Optimism among small business owners has fallen to its lowest level this year, according to the National Federation of Independent Business June index.

Of the 733 respondents to the NFIB survey, a quarter cited weak sales as their biggest current challenge. Only 3 percent of all small business owners said they expect their sales to go up, marking a 10 point fall in this statistic since the beginning of the year.

A recent ForecastIQ analysis showed pessimism about consumer spending is most likely justified. To compensate for rising gas prices, shoppers plan to spend less money on food and clothing, this study found.

And while ForecastIQ predicted good summer retail sales despite consumer plans to curb spending, the U.S.

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