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Big Summer in Store for HVAC Businesses

HVAC companies can expect a busy summer. As the summer rapidly approaches, one question is on everyone’s mind: how hot can we expect it to be? To answer that question, many turn to the Farmer’s Almanac. This year’s Almanac doesn’t appear to have good news. It predicts that this summer will be hot and “oppressively
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Summer Still Most Popular Wedding Season

The most popular months for weddings are June and August. With Memorial Day squarely in the rearview mirror, summer is fast approaching. That means a few things: the pools open, people start heading off on vacation, and food starts to be cooked outside in some sort of grilling fashion. It also means another thing: weddings.
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Summer Tourism Projected to Increase

This summer is expected to be a big one for the tourism industry This past Memorial Day weekend was the unofficial kickoff of summer, and was one of the busiest Memorial Days of the past decade, with more than 30 million people traveling. This summer looks to be just as busy in terms of travel.
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Travel Company Rises to New Heights

Transportation industry affords opportunity for consistent growth Polina Raygorodskaya started her own online travel startup after getting stranded on a cross-country trip in 2011. Her company, Wanderu, helps bus and train travelers in the US book their next reservation. Raygorodskaya says she saw an opportunity for Wanderu when she noticed that many bus services in
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Poll Finds: Small Biz Owners Have Few Regrets

Small business owners appear increasingly optimistic Encouraging news for anyone thinking of starting their own small business: a new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of small business owners wouldn’t change anything about their choice. A new Gallup poll found that 84% of small business owners have no regrets about making the decision to start
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Women Starting Companies at Torrid Pace, AP says

Really exciting news from the Associated Press: Female small business owners continue to grow in numbers “Women are starting companies at a torrid pace. Between 1997 and 2014, the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. rose by 68 percent, twice the growth rate for men and nearly one and a-half times the rate for
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Dr. Design? How one Doctor Fixed Up Her Practice.

Physical changes to your business location pays dividends Dr. Susan Dimick had an idea. Let her patients enjoy their time in her waiting room and not loathe waiting for her services. So she spent time and money fixing up her small practice, the Central Oklahoma Early Detection Clinic in Edmond, Oklahoma. As one journalist put
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