Some of the biggest developments from Leadership's event had to do with our webportal. Besides the new Google partnership with MA, there are other partnerships and new pages for web services coming out by March and April. I have been waiting for details on this "Digital Dashboard" info since they mentioned it earlier last year and they finally showed an overview and some page views. Thankfully the MA Partner Store Directory got a major overhaul and shows a nicely done alphabetical list with logos for easier recognition & shopping....whew!!

The new digital dashboard services which has downloads for games, music or news is still being worked on. It will have icons, for instance, the travel link will be a page for any travel related services offered by Travelocity in a special layout specifically designed for Market America!! They are already a partner store so they must seeing alot of business & can appreciate the value in creating the customized page with us. This concept is very powerful and will get people to hang out at our site like they do at AOL or MSN. (If Bejeweled is one of those games, forget it!--I'm gonna be glued to the laptop and possibly addicted!!)

Another amazing feature is a social networking page called "MA My World" that will compare to MySpace & FaceBook, only its got ways to link to your favorite stuff for people to buy. Say you bought a product from Kimora Lee's BabyPhat line, a funky bracelet, then you can add that to your page for friends to see and buy if they want one too. We'll get a sale and somehow customers get something too. There's also an messaging feature called MA Chatterbox for socializing with friends, family and for us UnFranchisers---our business organization!!

Then the celebrity/performer/entertainer web service is looking fantastic! Not sure if they are still calling it "Fuzed". They have a slew of stars wanting to join the list we already have to merchandise their stuff with a directory showcasing their music, movies, concert tickets, fragrances, clothing and whatever else has their name on it. Steve Ashley was saying that he needs an agent because of the amount of agents that are ringing our phones off the hook over this. Some names onboard already are Brooks & Dunn, Paul McCartney, JLo--of course, Paulina Rubio & Carrie Underwoood to name a few.

I did get a couple of screen shots of the pages that I hope will post well here.

Left side is MA MyWorld & on the Right is MA Chatterbox:


Here's a shot of the celebrity partners: