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China signs business deals worth $25 Billion USD with France
Chinese President Xi Jinping signed several business deals with French President Francois Hollande today. Some of the deals included an…
CITY SQUARE NIGHT FESTIVAL 2013 – DEC 28
WHAT: CITY SQUARE NIGHT FESTIVAL 2013 WHEN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2013 – 5PM-9PM WHERE: CITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER, 1199 Dillingham…
AQUACULTURE’S CONTRIBUTION TO HAWAII’S FOOD SECURITY CONFERENCE – NOV 23 – KUNIA COUNTRY FARMS
WHAT: AQUACULTURE’S CONTRIBUTION TO HAWAII’S FOOD SECURITY WHEN: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2013 – 10AM WHERE: KUNIA COUNTRY FARMS 92-1770…
Detoxify Your Life With Body Wraps By The Sea
The human body is an amazing thing. The way each intricate system works together to keep us alive and kicking is an amazing miracle that…
Billing Services LLC Adds A Personal Touch To Hawaii’s Medical Billing Industry
7 years ago Kathy Yamamoto and her mother began on their trek to create a business that would help medical professionals and patients rest…
AMK Contractors LLC: Honolulu Contractor Delivers Peace Of Mind
Honolulu Contractor Lyle Kelso has been in the contracting industry since he was 18 years old. Now in his early thirties, he has a wealth…
2012 Hawaii Fishing & Seafood Festival Makes Splash At Pier 38
Pier 38 was packed to the gills as the Hawaii Fishing & Seafood Festival 2012 was underway. Patrons by the busload were crowding the pier,…
AIP Gives Boost To Hawaii’s Agriculture Business
The Agribusiness Incubator Program is somewhat of a new idea. The concept has been around for years, but the execution is a little…
Are You Ready For E-Publishing? Workshop – Oct 15 – Hawaii Welness Directory
WHAT: Are you ready for E-Publishing? Workshop – Publish Your Book WHEN: Wednesday, October 15, 2012 5pm WHERE: 350 Ward Ave. #106-29 –…
500 Startups, Blue Startups (Accelerator) and Startup Hawaii @ The Box Jelly
WHAT: 500 STARTUPS, BLUE STARTUPS & STARTUP HAWAII WHEN: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 07, 2012 – 8:30PM WHERE: THE BOX JELLY, 307C KAMANI STREET,…
Business Of Farming Classes – August 14, 2012 – Honokaa Big Island
WHAT: Business Of Farming Classes WHEN: August 14, 2012 WHERE: North Hawaii Education and Research Center, Honokaa, Big Island of Hawaii…
Aloha Friday Launches Locally Made, All Natural, Enhanced Water Drink
The beverage market is extremely competitive. If you need any reassurance of that, merely take a look down a beverage isle at your local…
DFS Group Names New CEO
Phillippe Schaus was recently named to succeed Edward J. Brennan as CEO of DFS Group. Schaus will assume his new role on Aug. 1 after…
Best Buy Cutting 50 Stores To Get Profitable. Good Luck With That.
Best Buy is closing 50 superstores and focusing on mobile in an effort to reduce expenses. But since when is cost cutting to profitability…
3 Tips For Gaining Investors
Attracting investors for your small business is no easy task. We all know that. But there are a few things that can aid in your search if…
Cantor’s Small Business Break Adds to Complexity of Tax Code
- Bloomberg House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s goal of giving millions of small businesses an extra 20 percent tax deduction would add to…
Adding Value To Your Brand
There is one sure way to add value to your brand and the way it is conveyed to the public. . . value it. You must value your brand like…
9 Tips For Activating The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Kevin O’Connor , co-founder of DoubleClick , is the CEO of FindTheBest , an unbiased data driven comparison engine, which he established in…
The Box Jelly @ Fishcake Brings Worldwide Jelly Week to Hawaii
In the early days of WiFi and laptop couch crunching, small factions of anti-commuters in NYC created the notion of gathering together at…
Affliction Co-Founder Tom Atencio Builds $150 Million Brand
Today’s business isn’t the same as it once was. Along with new dedicated markets, such as extreme sports, new entrepreneurs have made their…
Decide to Succeed
The direction of your business is completely in your hands. The economy is not behind the steering wheel, you are. The time of year is not…
Your Brand Begins With You
There is a misconception that in business you must conduct yourself as others before you have conducted themselves. But that wouuldn’t be…
Business Booms at Waianae Christmas Parade
The Waianae Christmas Parade brought more than just smiles and cheer to west side today. It brought something that business seem to have…
9,500 APEC Members Receive Hawaiian Gift Box
When the APEC attendees arrive here in Hawaii, they will be greeted with hospitality gift boxes filled with goods from 14 local businesses.…
2011 APEC Summit a Rare Opportunity for Hawaii
Story by: King Eddie We recently focused on the APEC summit that will be taking place here in Honolulu in November. The possibilities that…
Create and Innovate (VIDEO)
Innovation can take a struggling beginner and turn them into a very successful veteran of the business world. Improving upon an already…
The Champ Show Supports Local Business
Champ Kaneshiro is a local Hawaii TV personality who is using his immense passion to push forward his dream of engaging people and making…
Branding With Emotion. . . (Video)
– July 15, 2011 In today’s society of endless advertisements, seas of faceless companies, and billions of interjecting products, the modern…
A Community-Based Model of Marketing!
HALEIWA, Hawaii (JUNE 22, 2013) Begun in 2011 by two local, female entrepreneurs who saw a need to assist the small businesses of their…
Aloha Christmas Jingle to Benefit Hawai‘i Children’s Cancer Foundation
HONOLULU — (November 14, 2013) Christmas came early for Hawai‘i Children’s Cancer Foundation as it has been named the beneficiary for a…
Be Our Guest Guest Directory GROWING ISLAND WIDE
HALEIWA, Hawaii (SEPTEMBER 09, 2013) Be Our Guest Directory, a Community-based Model of Support for Small Businesses , is going…
The Box Jelly: Introducing Hawaii to “cowork” space
--- all departments -- Auto -- Auto Body Shop -- Auto Detailing -- Auto Finance -- Auto Repair and Service -- Auto Sales ---- Fleet ----…
CardioPanda To Shape-Up Hawaii in 2012
--- all departments -- Auto -- Auto Body Shop -- Auto Detailing -- Auto Finance -- Auto Repair and Service -- Auto Sales ---- Fleet ----…
Being Different Makes a Difference
--- all departments -- Auto -- Auto Body Shop -- Auto Detailing -- Auto Finance -- Auto Repair and Service -- Auto Sales ---- Fleet ----…
Banks Fined More Than $5B, To Plead Guilty to Market Rigging
Five of the world's biggest banks will plead guilty to criminal charges and pay more than $5 billion in fines after federal investigators…
ConAgra to Pay $11.2M to Settle Salmonella Criminal Case
ConAgra Foods is paying $11.2 million to put a criminal case behind it — one that dates back to a salmonella outbreak in their Peter Pan…
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard & U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft Discuss Disaster Readiness
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard sat down with Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft recently to talk through where Hawaii stands on…
DevLeague: Hawaii's First Software Development Boot Camp
Hawaii finally has its own coding boot camp. DevLeague opened in Honolulu this fall as the first intensive software development program of…
The 1-2-3 Close: A Simple Sales Technique That Actually Works
Most salespeople talk too much at the end of a sale. They keep pitching when the pitch is already done, they circle back to features the…
8 Steps To Actually Get Your Business Idea Off the Ground
Having a business idea is the easy part. Most people who say they want to start something never get past that stage — not because the idea…
UH Students Show Out at 2015 Retail Business Plan Contest
The University of Hawaii's retail business plan competition closed out another strong year, with student teams presenting concepts that…
The Marketing Tools Actually Worth Your Time
There's no shortage of content marketing tools out there. Most of them you don't need. Here are the ones that actually matter for a small…
Facebook Features Your Business Should Actually Be Using
Most small businesses use Facebook the same way — post something, hope it gets seen, repeat. But the platform has a lot built into it that…
The Habits That Actually Separate Successful Entrepreneurs
After a while you start to notice patterns. The business owners who build something lasting tend to operate differently from those who stay…