Feeling stressed over work? Please don't. The exhaustion and unhappiness, if allowed to accumulate, will eventually diminish the fire and passion which has once been the driving force fuelling your entrepreneurial ambitions. Take a well-deserved break and just get away from it all. Recharge your batteries, and by the time you get back to work, you're ready to pursue your entrepreneurial dreams like never before. This issue's cover story shares with you how you can take a time-out from business to re-invigorate yourself.

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Time Out

Business is at full-throttle. You love your work, which leaves you in an exhilarated, heady mood at the end of a productive day.

But you can have too much of a good thing.

The same tasks that give you a mental buzz can also stress you out if you don’t take a breath and relax now and then. Before you know it, you’re fried to a crisp, which has a number of implications: You’re tired, exhausted, uncreative, unhappy, and maybe even sick.

We don’t want you to lose the fun factor in your work, or your passion for what you do. This is why we strongly feel that it’s critically important for you to take mental time-outs. Even toddlers get a chance to simmer down in time-out, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t revert. Soothe your inner kiddie when things get out of hand. You’ll regain and be able to retain your inner strength and creativity. Work – and life – will be enjoyable again.

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Workout Cards Could a deck of cards help your business reduce health care costs and ramp up productivity? A trainer and professional athlete believes his cards, Travelsthenics, can do that and more. View video >>	DogTown Bites Two New York dog lovers have turned their passion for pooches into the next entry in the 35 billion dollar pet products market. DogTown Bites offers the next generation of pet treats. View video >>
Line of Credit A line of credit can benefit a small business owner in numerous ways. And getting one before you need it can be the key to your success. View video >>	Effective Marketing Kit Your marketing kit should educate potential customers who have shown an interest in your company. Learn how to create more powerful, effective materials. View video >>

Over The Limits

Tongue-in-cheek references to the illegal is a trend propelled by Generation X-tasy. First there was Cocaine Energy Drink, which caused a stir earlier this year, leading 7-Eleven to pull the drink from its shelves. Then there’s Meth Coffee. Now comes Bong Vodka – from the limit-testing Dutch.

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Deliver That!

Deliverthat.com provides a venue for buyers and sellers of goods not available within ones country to have another user deliver that product to them. The concept aids buyers in other countries that do not hold this product to purchase this product either by Mail or through another community member.

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Baggu

Designed by mother-daughter team Joan and Emily, Baggus are sleekly designed, portable, reusable bags that come in a number of funky colors. Meant to be used as an alternative to paper and plastic shopping bags, the company estimates that using one Baggu for a year avoids the waste of 300 to 700 disposable bags.

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Instant Beauty

Richard Starrett and Neil Macka have come to the rescue with their Hot Iron vending machine. With 500 units already placed in clubs/gyms throughout the U.K , the Beautiful Vending company provide coin operated hair straightening hot irons, for the quick and convenient use of club patrons who's hair has gone 'poof'.

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Big Green Egg Cooker

Now, its time to take a look at the Big Green Egg ceramic grill, which is derived from an ancient clay cooker called “kamado” with some modern perfection. The Big Green Egg is a smoker, a grill and an oven and you can cook any food on it, from appetizers to entrees to desserts.

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Cheaper Together

Users first select a product from NetHaggler’s list of stores that includes everything from Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s to Best Buy and Circuit City. They then specify a preferred price at which the site can aggregate demand and ultimately negotiate with the merchant on behalf of the prospective customers.

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Sticar Statement

Sticars is here to unleash the idea of accessorizing your car. The new line of magnetic art allows you to make a statement without having to commit to a neon pink paint job. Totally affordable (just 22 bucks), they come in packs of adorable contemporary designs. Adhere one for subtle charm and make a bold statement.

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Wooing Angel Investors

For a young business, it can be alluring: Find an "angel" investor to swoop in and help fund your growing company. With millions of small businesses and only a few hundred organized angel groups, where do you begin? Here is Mr. Massey's advice for small-business owners who are searching for angel funding.

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Are You Witty Enough?

Most working professionals think it's important to have a sense of humor around the office, a recent survey found. Among nearly 500 full and part-time office workers surveyed, 97 percent said they preferred workplace managers who could make them laugh, while 87 percent said their bosses were pretty funny.

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Online Marketing Power

MacLeod used his blog to organize more than 100 gatherings of tech workers and influential bloggers who were plied with Stormhoek wine. MacLeod's results have been amazing. Stormhoek sales have jumped nearly sixfold, from 50,000 cases a year worldwide to almost 300,000.

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Build A Virtual Store

Small retailers who want to take their companies online can now build a store on the Web for free with a new service from FastCommerce.com. Business owners follow a simple step-by-step process to create a store template, and can have their online businesses up and running in a short amount of time.

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I Am The Brand

It used to be that only large businesses worried about branding. But things have changed. Today, branding occurs at the individual level. This is especially noticeable in service industries, but increasingly in others as well. To take advantage of these opportunities, you must become your own brand.

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How To Check Out Your Competitors

With such fierce competition in today's market along with ever changing consumer opinions, it’s imperative that you stay one step ahead of your competition. This can be useful in a variety of ways such as identifying customer habits, picking up on competitor workflow processes, and so on.

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Lyro Online Business Cards

Lyro is a service that helps people expand their individual-level professional identity on the Internet. It provides an open, fully searchable, and user-driven tool for professional branding on the web. In today’s global economy, it is more important than ever that each of us is discoverable online.

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