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Get Your Gas For Free

Consumers begin by registering their car with the GottaGetGas  site, including license plate, model, colour and type of gas used. If selected, they’re then invited to get an advertiser-provided decal affixed to their car at the nearest Caltex station. In exchange, they’re rewarded with a SGD 50 GottaGetGas card, which can be used to buy gas at any Singapore Caltex station.

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Fair Share Music

Do you buy Fair Trade chocolate? ethical food? how about ethical music? Earlier today we interviewed the founders of FairShareMusic. It’s a social enterprise that sells music mp3s at the same prices as iTunes and donates half the profit to charity. So, that song will cost you exactly what it would anywhere else.

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Book Posters

Postertext creates art that harmonizes literature with imagery in the form of beautiful, elegant posters. Postertext’s posters make excellent decorative additions to your home or office, as they are both expressive and captivating. They also make great conversation pieces for book lovers.

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Twitter to Twournal

Twournal is a new service that creates a different kind of twitter book, it allow users to create, buy and sell printed Twitter journals created from their tweets. Twournal has: 1. Full pages of your tweets. 2. Can include Twitpic/Tweetphoto/Yfrog pictures in color or black and white. 3. Can include replies. And many more…

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Solar ParkGreen

Abast Energia Natural is launching its new product called ParkGreen at the upcoming fair trade PVSEC, which is taking place in Valencia this September. ParkGreen is a concept that could help us to face the big challenges that we are facing in terms of sustainable mobility and renewable energies. 

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Customizable Piggy Bank

How cute are these piggy banks by Ladies & Gentlemen? Called the Chalk-it-to-me Piggy Bank, each bank was cast with a pigmented ceramic that creates a surface that can be customized with chalk. The bank comes with a cork stopper for easy access to the funds inside. Two chalk sticks and a wiping cloth are provided.

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Your Custom Boardshort

Looking for the hottest new craze in board shorts? This summer, board shorts no longer have to be boring run of the mill shorts. Shortomatic.com has turned the staid board short into a stylish and highly personal style statement with custom-designed and custom-printed shorts made-to-order for each customer. 

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Hello Kitty Branded Water Bottle

Hello Kitty never does anything in a plain or boring way and bottled water is no exception. Fillico is offering Hello Kitty branded water bottles that in addition to the iconic kitty face and prominent cartoon bow also feature Swarovski crystal accents and crown-shaped toppers.

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How Small Business Owners Can Go Green And Save Green

It’s all the rage to talk about green cities, green businesses, and green policies. It makes sense in the big picture to take care of the planet we’re on. But what does “going green” really mean to the average small business owner? Fortunately it’s not all about expensive equipment and complex retooling.

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Turning Lost Customers Into Future Customers

The search for lost customer sales treasure does take work – but the upside of the effort is huge. Lost customers make great future customers. You never know what hidden gems of business you might find in your lost customers. Are the reasons they stopped being a customer relevant any longer?

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Former Customers Make Great Future Customers

Want to win more business? “Lost” customers are the key! Many salespeople hit the delete key on former customers and focus on new prospects, but this is a big mistake!  Former customers make great future customers, so increase your sales by earning the business of customers you’ve “lost” over the years.   

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Networking: The Why and How-To for Three Types of Female Entrepreneurs

To busy female entrepreneurs, networking can seem like a complex web of cocktail parties, dinner meetings and social media pages. Even if these savvy businesswomen realize the importance of networking as a means for growing their companies, they may shy away from it.

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How to Influence Without Positional Authority and Improve Employee Morale Using 3 Simple Strategies

We know what you’re thinking…”Influence without positional authority” sounds like an oxymoron and if uttered in the organization, you believe you will have employees wondering about your sanity.

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Your Buyer Is Smarter than You

Too many salespeople view their buyers as anything but smart, especially those salespeople who deal with purchasing departments. In far too many sales communities, there exists an attitude that buyers and purchasing departments are nothing more than barriers that need to be broken down.

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Famous Student Entrepreneurs

While most recent graduates are frantically looking for a job – any job – during these tough times, these ten individuals used their formidable college years not to party and study, but to start multi-million (and sometimes billion) dollar companies. Yeesh. If you feel the need to be inspired, just take a look at these students who completely redefined what it means to be a success during college.

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