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I do not believe I need to tell anybody that this economy is tricky and many of us have been having a veryhard time. I lost my work about four months back when the plant where I was employed closed down 2 of their production lines and my bro in law, Barney got his pink slip last month when his company announced that they were closing the doors for good.

Both of us spent a fair amount of time and effort on the lookout for new roles but with absolutely no luck. However, we were clear on the fact that we still 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 operation would be as my only real talent and experience was in producing washing machines and Barney had worked as a quality control inspector at a candy plant. However, my young neighbor convinced us that rap music, rappers and that hip hop approach to life was the freshest growth 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 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 regular store. So, our next task was to find a wholesale bling jewelry outlet.

We quickly discovered we had a significant problem in that we were a new business with no track record and no credit score which meant that no-one would sell us any inventory apart from money. They were all extraordinarily polite to reassure us that credit purchases would be possible after we were established but it was all going to be COD at the start. We started scrambling then to find personal loans with no credit check.

Well, we eventually got our money 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 presumed we could deal nicely with. However, none of these wholesale vendors was in out town so we were going to need to travel which meant making airline and hotel reservations.

Getting the airline reservations was very easy and most of the hotels now subscribe to an integrated hotel website design with online booking that made dealing with them also pretty simple.