So Now We’re in the Jewelry Business

I don’t believe I need to tell anybody this economy is tough and many of us have been having a pretty difficult time. I lost my job about 4 months ago when the plant where I was employed 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 spent a fair amount of time and effort looking for new roles but with no luck. However, we were clear on the fact that we still required income to pay our bills and support our families so Barney and i decided to go into business for ourselves.

We had no clear idea on what this effort would be as my only real talent and experience was in producing washing machines and Barney had worked as a quality controls inspector at a candy company. However, my young neighbor convinced us that rap music, rappers and that hip hop way of life was the latest growth trend in our culture today. Now I must admit that both Barney and I agree that the entire’rapper scene’ is just plain stupid but if it makes cash then who are we to argue.

Somehow we decided to go after the jewelry segment of the hip hop market with the plan that we could start off rather small and just offer our stuff for sale at flea markets till we could afford to open a real store. So, our next task was to find a manufaturer hip hop jewelry outlet.

We quickly discovered we had a serious problem in that we used to be a new business with no track record and no credit score which implied that nobody would sell us any inventory apart from cash. They were all very mannered to reassure us that credit purchases would be possible after we were established but it was all going to be cash on delivery at the beginning. We started scrambling then to find personal loans with no credit check.

Well, we ultimately 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 presumed we could deal comfortably with. However, none of these wholesale vendors was in out town so we were going to require to go which meant making airline and hotel reservations.

Getting the airline reservations was very easy and most of the hotels now subscribe to a hotel SEO sytem that made dealing with them also pretty simple.