Hoping Bling Bling Turns Into Caching
I don’t think I need to tell anyone this economy is troublesome and many folks have been having a pretty hard time. I lost my work about four months back when the plant where I was working closed down 2 of their production lines and my brother in law, Barney got his final notice last month when his office commented that they were closing the doors forever.
Both of us had spent a fair amount of time and effort on the lookout for new jobs but with absolutely no luck. However, we were clear on the fact that we continue to required revenue to pay our bills and support our families so Barney and i decided to go into business on our own.
We had no clear idea on what this effort would be as my only real talent and experience was in manufacturing washing machines and Barney had worked as a quality controls inspector at a candy plant. However, my young neighbor convinced us that rap music, rappers and that hip hop approach to life was the hottest growth trend in our country today. Now I must admit that both Barney and I agree the entire’rapper scene’ is just plain foolish but if it makes money then who are we to argue.
Somehow we decided 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 until we could afford to open a regular store. So, our next task was to find a wholesale bling outlet.
We quickly discovered that we had a serious problem in that we were a new business with no track record and no credit history which meant that no-one would sell us any inventory except for cash. They were all very respectful to assure us that credit arrangements would be possible 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 finally got our funding together. Not really 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 thought we could deal comfortably with. However, none of these wholesale vendors was in out town so we were going to require to travel which meant making airline and hotel reservations.
Getting the airline reservations was very easy and most of the hotels now subscribe to hotel GDS that made dealing with them also pretty simple.