November 30, 2009
I hired a new salesman to help me run my discount office furniture store. I have owned this store now for twenty years and am deciding to have a website designed that will help to sell everything that is offered in the store, but online. I am really excited to put all the discount office furniture online since a lot of the people who come to my store tell me that they have never found better prices anywhere.
If my prices are really that great then I should be able to sell lots of items online and double my sales. I am thinking of holding off on adding the office supplies to the site for just a little while. I want to make sure that the furniture does well first and then I will add the office supplies.
I do a lot of business in office supplies but I make my real money with the office furniture. My brother makes most of the pieces by hand and he gives me a great deal on them. I think that this is why I am better priced than my competition. My middle man is someone who I am related to and he treats me very well.
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November 24, 2009
I remember as a child a friend of mine used to wear funny t shirts all the time to school. He used to get in get trouble once in a while when the t shirts were a little too offensive. I would always laugh because he actually liked getting in trouble and he thought it was funny.
These days I do not think you could get away with wearing some of the funny shirts like my friend used to have. People are too uptight in school and other places for that kind of activity. They say it takes away from the children’s learning experience in school when someone is being disruptive like that.
I think this is why as adults if we can get away with wearing what we want then we do because in school you are almost like a prisoner. They tell you what to wear and what not and tell you how to act; it gets a little crazy if you ask me.
A good old funny t shirt is not going to keep the other kids from learning if they are that easily distracted by some funny t shirts that the other kids are wearing. I do not agree with today’s tough rules and regulations in school, I think they go overboard a bit.
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November 23, 2009
The life insurance quote that I got from my insurance agent last year has expired and the new rates are much higher. I should have just gotten it then but I really could not afford it. I figured that I would put the policy into place when I got a raise. I got my raise just last week and now the new life insurance quote is about double of the one that I had from last year, for the exact same coverage.
I am feeling really stupid for having this happen but also think that maybe I should shop around for some cheaper no medical exam life insurance, just like people do for car insurance. In the past when I have done this for car insurance, it seems that you can always find someone who is cheaper.
I am thinking that by using one of those online companies that gets you lots of quotes to compare I should be able to get some no medical exam life insurance for a better rate. Even if it is just a little bit cheaper, anything will help at this point. I know that I need to be prepared but paying double is just out of the question.
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November 20, 2009
I love wearing funny t shirts in public and getting people to read them. It seems that no matter where I go, I get compliments on my funny shirts. I started designing them myself about three years ago and put them in an online store. Whenever anyone asks me where I got my t shirt, I just pull out a little business card with the address of my site on it and had it to them.
I think that I get more business by wearing my funny shirts, then I do from any other form of advertising that I do. There are four different colleges located all within about sixty miles of me and it seems that I give a lot of my business cards out to the kids that attend those colleges. I also advertise around the campuses but cannot track how well that does for me.
I am planning on expanding my funny t shirts business next year, with a small shop where people can come in and design their own funny shirts, if they do not like what I have designed. I think that people will love to put their own designs on their own t shirts. I will have to see if the idea works in the shop before I offer that service on my website.
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