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Google, Twitter Join ‘Small Business Saturday’ Movement

Following the success of last year's Small Business Saturday, a number of online giants are teaming up to help local owners make this year's event even more prosperous.Facebook, Google and Twitter, among others, are joining... more »

Heart ‘n’ Home Reopens a Little Less Country

Pocomoke City, MD - Brian Jones says if you've been inside one country store, you've seen them all. And that's what he and his wife are trying to avoid with the re-opening of Heart 'n'... more »

Uptick in Small Business Optimism First in Six Months

Chicago, IL - Open boxes of Halloween and holiday decorations are strewn on the counters and floors at the Confection Connection Too!, 316 S. Dearborn St., as owner Gail Goodman prepares for the kickoff to... more »

Appletree Cottage Marks One-year Anniversary

North Hampton, NH - From the outside Appletree Cottage Antiques & Home does not appear particularly spacious in the small red building it is housed in. Yet once you enter the number of antiques, home... more »

25 Years Of Partridge Tree Gifts

Danvers, MA - Regular shoppers at Partridge Tree Gift Shop know Jackie Fiandaca as the friendly and competent face behind the counter. After all, Fiandaca has been running the exclusive little gift shop on the... more »

Downtown Gets a New Candy Shop, Just In Time for Sweetest Day

Rochester, MI - There's having a passion for something..... and then there's the Ziggy mold."As a kid, instead of bringing in cupcakes to school as my birthday treat, I would home-make and bring in chocolate... more »

Visitor Center Gift Shop Kicks off American Craft Week Today

Rome, GA - The Rome-Floyd Visitor Center and the Last Stop Gift Shop will celebrate American Craft Week beginning today by highlighting local artists, authors and jewelry makers.The goal of American Craft Week, sponsored by... more »

Digs Studio Settles Into New Kingfield Digs

Kingfield, MN - Imagine if you could physically walk into Etsy: handmade pillows and jewelry in one corner, jars of vintage buttons in another, supplies for knitting your own scarves and sweaters along the back... more »

Sisters are Homing in on Homebird Furniture Store Success

Cheadle Hulme, UK - Sibling entrepreneurs Miri Templeton and Darrell Whittaker are very much at home in the furniture business.Homebird, their interiors and gift boutique in Wilmslow, has been so successful that the sisters have... more »

Ashby’s Agates: The Adventure of Crafting Jewelry that ‘Rocks’

Westminster, MD - Brian Ashby has been collecting rocks with his family ever since he could walk. His family traveled the country on extended summer trips often stopping in Redmond, Oregon to visit his Great... more »