GoErie.com: Mary Feikles is tickled pink by her latest accomplishment: a pink Cadillac, courtesy of Mary Kay Inc. Feikles, 44, of Erie, picked up her lease vehicle Thursday at the Roth Cadillac dealership on upper Peach Street. “It’s not the Pepto-Bismol pink like everyone thinks,” she said. “It’s a beautiful pearlized pink.” Earning use of […]
MOO.com, a custom business card printer, is offering free business card redesigns for 500 small businesses. To apply for MOO’s Business Card Project, submit a existing business card online and fill out a short application, including a 100-word essay about why your card needs a redesign. Entries will be accepted until August 31, 2010.
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FranchiseUpdate: Franchisee satisfaction is a key performance benchmark for forecasting the rate of your system development. If your “troops” aren’t promoting you, it doesn’t matter how compelling and profitable your program is. I’ll never forget the children’s franchise with a great financial success story. Even though their business model and ROI were terrific, their recruiting
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The X Prize Foundation, which fueled private space travel with their ten million dollar prize for the first rocket capable of making reliable flights into space announced a new prize this weekend. They will award $3 million for a cleanup of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. CNN has the details.
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Discovery News: Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth to regenerate in about a month, according to a new study in the journal ACS Nano. This technology is the first of its
Sydney Morning Herald: Spending three consecutive days with self-made retail entrepreneur Katherine Sampson at a conference is a closeness her own children seldom experienced while growing up. The mother-of-two has worked non-stop, often sleeping in the office or on interstate flights, since opening her second Healthy Habits sandwich shop in Melbourne 11 years ago. Now
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QSR Web: Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. It’s single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation knowhow, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. Cognizant thinks that an effective information exchange between a restaurants’ corporate
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According to The Morning Sentinel, it’s easy to learn, fun, and extremely popular, say those who play pickleball. Say what? Yes, pickleball. You might call it a cross between badminton, pingpong and tennis. It’s played with a net, paddles and a ball with holes in it, similar to a Wiffle ball. The game, while developed
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Times 24: Marijus Izenbek, an air traffic controller at Birmingham Airport, has become a franchisee for car tyre specialists HiQ – opening a new test centre in WGC. The 30-year-old is now open for business in Little Mundells, and said he is looking forward to the new challenge. “After working in air traffic control for
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Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil sat in his office late last week, confidently spinning scenarios with timelines that stretched to 2020, 2030, and beyond, according to The Boston Globe. But the near-future was also on his mind: WorldFuture 2010, the annual conference organized by the World Future Society, scheduled for July 8-10 at the Westin
