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We’ve all imagined a contraption similar to that found in the early 90’s movie The Rocketeer. The fact of the matter is, this idea seemed impossible – either conceptually or affordability speaking. Recently, New Zealand’s Martin Aircraft Company came up with a safe, and reasonably priced ultralight aircraft known as the Martin Jetpack.

The design of the jet pack, which is made from carbon fiber – with a minute amount of kevlar in the rotors, is able to generate right around 600 pounds of thrust. The way the jetpack is designed is such that the center of gravity is below the “center of thrust”, if the pilot was to ever let go of the controls, they would gently hover in one spot. What’s even better is the fact that you don’t need plutonium or any other crazy elements to power this incredible machine. The Martin Jetpack runs on good ol’ gasoline. A full tank, which can hold approximately five gallons, gives you enough juice to get thirty minutes of travel time in.

Due to the fact that the jetpack is considered an ultralight aircraft, a pilot’s license is not necessary to operate it. This is not preventing Martin from forcing those who wish to own one of these amazing machines to undergo training prior to operation. As they’ve put it “to attempt to fly any aircraft without professional instruction is extremely foolhardy.” Quite frankly, it makes sense. Safety features include a parachute which pops out in the event that the engine should seize, similar to that of an airbag.

As of right now, there is a 12 month waiting list to get your hands on one of these bad-boys. There is a 10 % deposit required, but for a total of $90,000, this is an opportunity that those who can afford to take advantage of, certainly will.

Article on wired.com/gadgetlab/

How would a sales tax decrease affect your business?

For 3PRIME, not much! We haven’t yet started selling flooring in CT or designer handbags, so this shouldn’t have an immediate affect on us.

But the proposed budget seeks to decrease the retail sales tax from 6 percent to 5.5 percent. Some of our local CT clients could experience an uptick in sales at a much needed time.

For example, RhinoShelters.com, the new brand for MDM Shelters portable garage products, will find that their customers save a bit on their sales taxes. this improves their ability to compete with other online sellers selling in CT, where MDM would have to charge sales tax.

Another local company, Universal Hotel Liquidators, a CT furniture store, will definitely benefit since most of their sales are to local New Haven residents. Of course, people come from all over CT, MA, and even NY because of their great deals, but all of these are taxable sales, so each of those customers stands to save a few dollars.

Home builders are suffering more than they have in a number of decades. Roger Sirany has been a builder for 21 years and has exhausted nearly every option to find new customers in the current business landscape.

But perhaps there is reason to raise hopes. Plumbline Builders has become the newest project of 3PRIME, the company dedicated to design, development and consulting, specializing in search engine optimization.

Recognizing the lack of cash in company coffers, 3PRIME has agreed to take this project on contingency, investing a discrete number of man-hours into earning PLBOnline a top spot in Google for the phrase “minneapolis remodeling”. Currently, the business website collects just a couple of leads each month, not enough to sustain their entire staff, especially with projects averaging fractions of the dollars they were a year ago.

3PRIME’s goal will be to increase the forms submitted on PLBOnline.com as much as possible. Studying their regional keywords, it is clear that the best placement for Plumbline will be for keyword searches that describe Plumbline’s services. Ryan Turner, partner at 3PRIME, says that “Natural placement in Google starts to build trust in the company before a potential customer even picks up the phone.” He continues, “Like most small businesses, PLB will be able to get in front of a new generation of customers by being visible where people are looking when they want to speak to an expert.”

3PRIME has fought through the growing pains in their own business, and is currently hiring and training new staff to continuously improve their service and expand their proprietary company projects. “We aren’t in the habit of taking risks like this” says Cornel Boudria, web technology guru and fellow partner at 3PRIME, “but these days, it is clear that helping other small companies is just good business.”