So Now We’re in the Jewelry Business
I don’t believe I must tell anybody this economy is tough and many people have been having a fairly hard time. I lost my position about four 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 forever.
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 needed income 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 operation would be as my only real ability and experience was in producing washing machines and Barney had worked as a quality controls inspector at a candy factory. 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 stupid but if it makes cash 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 merchandise for sale at flea markets until we could afford to open a regular store. So, our next task was to find a wholesale bling bling outlet.
We quickly discovered that we had a major problem in that we used to be a new business with no track record and no credit score which suggested that no-one would sell us any inventory except for cash. They were all very respectful to assure us that credit arrangements would be available after we were established but it was all going to be cash on delivery at the start. We started scrambling then to find a fast cash loan no credit check.
Well, we ultimately got our financing together. Not particularly 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 want to go 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.