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Business advice?
Topic Started: Apr 21 2009, 08:05 PM (257 Views)
CrashTest
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I know there are a lot of people here who have run their own business, so do you have any general advice? Anything pitfalls to avoid?
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musicasacra
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Yes, but it isn't free. :D
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musicasacra
Apr 21 2009, 08:39 PM
Yes, but it isn't free. :D
Lesson #1
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Phlebas
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...and with any free advice, you get what you pay for.
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Buy low, sell high.
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My advice is: Don't take advice from internet forums.
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
But in your case? Yes, I do have one piece of serious advice. Do a thorough business plan. Determine, based on that cold-eyed plan, whether you can reliably make enough money in this enterprise to make it worthwhile. Also determine what the expected longevity of such a business is.

Even if you decide not to enter this business, or you decide it is a hobby-sideline business secondary to another career, you will have learned a whole lot about what is involved in starting a real business.
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Klaus
Apr 22 2009, 04:36 AM
My advice is: Don't take advice from internet forums.
My advice is to ignore this advice.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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Mikhailoh
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Phlebas
Apr 22 2009, 04:42 AM
Klaus
Apr 22 2009, 04:36 AM
My advice is: Don't take advice from internet forums.
My advice is to ignore this advice.
Neither one of them know what they're talking about. Listen and remit checks only to me.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Any business can be improved by the addition of strippers, beer, and motorcycles.
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Mikhailoh
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That is true. Bikers are now longer poor. Those guys can't afford Harleys. It's a well off demographic.
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create a company entity
it behooves me to behold
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Phlebas
Apr 22 2009, 04:42 AM
Klaus
Apr 22 2009, 04:36 AM
My advice is: Don't take advice from internet forums.
My advice is to ignore this advice.
Crash, just ignore the ignorance of the ignored.
Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman
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Marry someone rich.
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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I've read that you can bribe pay lobbyists to get government contracts issued in your favour, reaping you millions of $$$ in profits. I've also read that you don't need to pay your corporate taxes now, and that it's ok to pay them when you can, as long as you say you're sorry for paying late and that it was an oversight. :lol2:
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Mikhailoh
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That's only for gummint men.
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