June 2010

New Luggage Box From The UPS Store Expands Luggage Shipping Solutions

MarketWatch: The UPS Store (R) can ease air travelers’ burdens this summer with three luggage shipping alternatives, including a new luggage box that takes the place of a suitcase, to help reduce hassles of long lines, security searches and increasing baggage fees. “Not having to carry a suitcase while traveling is a great convenience. Even

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Eat My Pink Dust

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

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Business Card Redesign Contest

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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Validation Is A Sales Tool: Franchisee Satisfaction Makes Or Breaks Your Growth

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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An X Prize for the Oil Spill

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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No More Fillings

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

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