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Like Ivie, fledgling entrepreneurs can save a bundle by selling services rather than products.
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Ms. Ivie purchased these products, produced by Kraft Foods, Cadbury, and Back to Nature, over a four-year period.
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The judge did, however offer Ms. Ivie a road map on how to overcome preemption when she amended her complaint.
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When Ivie landed in Chicago, she sent postcards to 30 local business people, promising three hours of organization services for free.
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Ivie's big moneymaking idea: organizing the apartments and offices of busy people.
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Today, Ivie's company, White Space, offers "clutter control" services to hundreds of clients across the country, many of them recently relocated by big companies like the Walt Disney Co. and Exelon.
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Upon discovering that those companies had, in her opinion, duped her into making those purchases through false or misleading statements, Ms. Ivie contacted some lawyers, and volunteered to be the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit.
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Eight years ago, Texas resident Cynthia Ivie, a 43-year-old sales rep for Newsweek, struck out for Chicago with no more than a business idea and a 1989 Toyota Corolla packed with clothes, books, a vacuum cleaner, a stereo and a cocker spaniel named Buckley.
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