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Glowing Sofa

Via Lattea is a striking change from traditional padded furniture and also a significant upgrade from your college room blow-up chair. Low wattage lights are placed inside the pieces to emit a glowing light. These recycled sofas require less materials and resources to produce than the typical ones.

Read The Rest of This Article | Comments |  Consumer Goods

Ynot Plast - Plasters for Melanin-Rich Skins

Ynot Plast' s range of plasters will mean that brown skinned people no longer need to bear with a comical white sticking plaster on brown skin a thing of the past! Their products include bandages and first aid kits for home as well as plasters in 5 natural shades of mocha, cocoa, caramel, bronze and honey.

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Urban Transporters

Whether your cargo is kids, laundry, groceries or beach gear, the coolest way to haul it is the Madsen Cargo bike. These handy urban transporters from Salt Lake City, Utah, can carry 271 kg either in a bucket or on a rack. Plus, they come in 3 colors – dramatic black, yummy cream and sweet baby blue.

Read More | Comments |  Design

New Meat, New Business

Consumers will soon be seeing some new names in the butcher case. The beef industry spent 5 years and $1.5 million studying the chuck roll, the area under the shoulder blade that's normally turned into moderately priced steaks and chuck roast — and came up with 5 new products!

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Pay-As-You-Want Ad

If magazines, restaurants and hotels can turn to pay-as-you-want pricing schemes to help them survive the recession, why not an ad agency? Sure enough, Agency Nil offers a variety of freelance branding, media and advertising services without any set price, leaving it instead up to clients to decide.

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Wind Powered SuperCar

Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has set out to create the world’s first zero-emission, wind powered supercar. The vehicle is based upon a heavily modified Lotus Exige that has been retrofitted with an electric engine that will be charged completely by the wind! Good piece of eco-innovation.

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"Upcycling" Your Cashmere Sweaters

Designer Brooke Serson Cernonok has come up with a creative way to “upcycle” your old cashmere sweaters: she turns them into one-of-a-kind plush bears, bunnies and elephants. You can donate your sweaters and leave it at that; or for about $55, have them transformed into the plush toys.

Read More | Comments |  Marketing

Online Car Racers Compete with Live Professionals

Fiat Punto has created a virtual online racing game. Using GPS tracking, on-board cameras and CGI modelling, Fiat has managed to integrate the real car into the virtual racing game so that you can test your driving skills against the professional driver.

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Purchasing Co-ops - Empowering Entrepreneurs

For entrepreneurs who cherish their independent status in a retail chain, “big box” business world, you can now realize success through a purchasing cooperative. Purchasing co-op owner-members can increase their competitiveness by pooling together to acquire inventory and services.

Read More | Comments | Entrepreneurs | Article by Donna Abernathy

Postage Meters: Easy Cost Savings for Small Businesses

Here’s a tough question: What’s the one thing nearly all business owners consistently overpay for? The answer is pretty surprising: Postage costs! You can now avoid overpayment- and create big savings- by using a postage meter. A postage meter can calculate postage costs precisely, so you’ll never overpay.

Read More | Comments | Operations | Article by Merrin Muxlow

Unlimited Alternative to Money
 
Credit is essential in both short and long term sales and is also an investment in the customer relationship lifespan. Credit allows for the value of a product or service to be assessed and for profitable sales to happen based on payment at some later date. Properly understood, B2B Credit is an unlimited alternative.

Read More | Comments | Finance & Capital | Article by Abe Sanchez

Social Networking Changed Everything – The New Marketing & PR Model

Today, newspapers are going virtual, Twitter and Facebook replacing postcards and phone calls, and potential clients are now the main target of your press releases (instead of editors). Your public relations and marketing have to change with times. 

Read More | Comments | Networking | Article by Diana Ennen

That’s Telemarketing? A guide to inbound services

Almost everyone associates the telemarketing industry with outbound call centers. There’s another kind of telemarketing – think customer service, customer help desks, or order processing over the phone. Inbound telemarketing is becoming a popular way to outsource these processes.

Read More | Comments | Customer Service | Article by Merrin Muxlow

Start a Home Tutoring Business

The Home Tutoring Industry and educational-based companies are experiencing record growth now. By starting your own home tutoring business, you become a tutor broker – managing a network of professional teachers and educators, and matching them with students. 

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Stop Using the Economy as an Excuse!

Leaders are using the economy as an excuse on a daily basis an excuse for poor decisions. Instead of simply blaming it on employees or the economy, there are usually other underlying reasons such as poor planning, changing expectations among customers and clients, etc.

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