Sign of The Times
I do not believe I must tell anybody that this economy is tough and many people have been having a fairly difficult time. I lost my work about 4 months ago when the facility where I was working closed down two of their production lines and my bro in law, Barney got his final notice last month when his office commented that they were closing the doors for good.
Both of us had spent a fair period of time and energyattempting to find new roles but with absolutely no success. However, we were clear on the fact that we continue to required earnings to pay our bills and support our families so Barney and I determined to go into business for ourselves.
We had no clear idea on what this effort would be as my only real ability and experience was in manufacturing washing machines and Barney had worked as a QC inspector at a candy company. However, my young neighbor convinced us that rap music, rappers and that hip hop lifestyle was the freshest expansion trend in our culture today. Now I must admit that both Barney and I agree the entire’rapper scene’ is just plain dumb but if it earns money then who are we to argue.
Somehow we made a decision to go after the jewellery segment of the hip hop market with the plan that we could start off rather small and just offer our goods for sale at flea markets till we could afford to open a real store. So, our next task was to find a wholesale bling bling outlet.
We quickly discovered we had a major problem in that we used to be a new business with no track record and no credit history which meant that nobody would sell us any inventory excepting money. They were all very polite to assure us that credit arrangements would be available after we were established but it was all going to be COD at the beginning. We started scrambling then to find a no credit check cash loan.
Well, we eventually got our money together. Not especially as much as we wanted but enough to at least buy some starter inventory and get the project rolling and we had also found some promising wholesale outlets that we believed we could deal comfortably with. However, none of these wholesale vendors was in out city so we were going to need to go which meant making airline and hotel reservations.
Getting the airline reservations was very easy and most of the hotels now subscribe to an integrated hotel website design with online booking that made dealing with them also pretty simple.
