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Would You Continue This Business Or Give Up?


I started a carpet cleaning business in May of 2012. I spent over $3,000 on training and certification for carpet cleaning, fire and smoke damage restoration as well as water damage restoration. I spent about $3,000 on some entry level equipment. I spent about $1,500 in advertising only to get about $3,500 in sales, all ads in the local weekly newspapers, all 13 week contracts. Each paper used a different Google Voice number so I could tract the source of the calls. Three out of six papers led to exactly 0 inquiries. One led to a single inquiry and a $400 job that took too much time complete. I put in 3+ hours per day at the end of every day for 5 days. It was for a landlord. It was10/31 to 11/4 . He had 5 vacant apartments in his complex. After they were painted, I came in to clean the carpets. Originally I planned on them taking 2 hours each, but with 10 hour shifts subcontracting for someone else doing Sandy clean-up I was working slow and they were dirtier than I anticipated.
The person who I sub contracted about 100 worth of Sandy clean up has offered me a part-time job for $12.50 per hour, 2-3 days per week. It is over an hour commute to his company.
Quite frankly, 2012 was horrible. i have about $5,000 in my checking account right now that I can spend. I was just approved for a $12,500 business loan, that would require me to fund $2,500 of a $15,000 business plan. About $1,500 of that would go to marketing. I also had to promise to spend another $1,000 in marketing out of my own pocket. All I have to do is sign the papers.The loan is 84 months @ 4.5%. That’s just under $175 per month, not a big deal.
It will tremendously expand my ability to do work. It will give me a nice marketing budget. I don’t know if this will actually boost my business any however. The local economy sucks. A lot of money is going to make repairs to homes not covered by FEMA or insurance. It is hard to find clients. Our local unemployment rate is still going up. It is 9%. I have cleaned out more vacant apartments and foreclosures than anything else. Maybe that’s my niche. Problem is the foreclosure rate is slowing down too. To me, it looks like the economy is flat lining. That’s the worst for me. If it is going up, people spend money. If it is going down, foreclosures need cleaning. If the economy is doing nothing, neither am I. That’s where I am at now.
I could take this part time job as a sure thing. I could limp along with my business until it picks up or I find a better job. I don’t know if things will get better. Like I said, I’d actually do better if things got worse.

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Facebook Account Locked Help!?


AS i was using my facebook as usual …. suddenly i got a message ” PLEASE LOG IN TO CONTINUE ” then i refreshed my page n Logged in .. Which said .. You’re Account Has Been Temporarily Locked , and When i started to Follow The on screen instructions To Unlock My Account i got ” Enter confirmation code
A code was sent to your following number: 918939396369
Once you’ve received your confirmation code, please enter it below. This will help confirm your account ownership. ”
BUT I NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO THIS MOBILE NUMBER
But i have all access to my MAIL affiliated with this facebook Account … Please Do Help !!!!
– Regards
Lalith Gavas

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Why Do Liberals Continue To Spout This “war-on-women” Crap?


No one’s buying it!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MTwBlJk…
It’s GREAT that Romney and Ryan want to defund Planned Parenthood-they’re a MURDER ORGANIZATION. They MURDER babies. Federal funds should not be affiliated with MURDER. Abortion is murder, and a woman getting raped doesn’t mean the child should die. Everyone knows that abortion is evil, and this garbage has got to stop. ROMNEY/RYAN 2012.

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According To The Competitive Exclusion Principle, Two Species Cannot Continuously Continue To Occupy The Exact?


A.habitat.
B.niche.
C.territory.
D.range.
E.biome.

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Are All Taurus People Really Just Fake Or Pretenders?


Me and this person fell out. In the course of us falling out, I find out a lot of things that they never liked and it was really a lot. The person tells everyone that they DON’T want to be around me, yet they spend a portion of their day keeping up on what I am doing by asking about me?
Which is it: do they not want to be around me and just want to see how miserable I am? Or did they not mean what they said? They CONTINUE to talk about how they don’t want to be affiliated with me YET they try to find ways to be around?
I am noticing a pattern with Taurus people that they are really FAKE and pretend to like you but really are HIGHLY critical and don’t like too much of anything (judgmental).
Do you think this person just didnt ever like me and now just holding on because that’s what they do?

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Why Do Liberals Continue To Lie About Fox News?


Liberals continue the farce that Fox news lies- even after Obama said last night that he respects Fox News.
Liberals try to associate Fox News with a singular Fox BROADCAST Network affiliate in Florida that was sued by a couple of disgruntled employees.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre
Yet, the citizens of Liberal Koolaidia still spread the li that Fox News went to court for the right to lie. I suggest you report anyone who continues to spread this nonsense.

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