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		<title>Thoughts?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[A business is an entity exchangi]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[A business is an entity exchanging a product for money. It may or may
not have employees. To say that the unique, defining attribute of a
business is whether or not it has employees is to use a non-essential
for the definition.

I get the idea]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  
When you have employees an]]></title>
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When you have employees and have someone else`s work make money for you, that`s when you have a real business. However, soon you realize that you have to pay labor cost and there is probably little left.
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				<title><![CDATA[Remember that everyone isn`t you]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Remember that everyone isn`t your client. There are people who can afford what you do, some that can`t, and some that you are too inexpensive for (they have expensive taste). Find the market that you want to go after, the demographics you wish to hit and t[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[When people say "I have my own b]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[When people say "I have my own business", sometimes it
only means "I own my own job". If you are doing the manufacturing (or
service) yourself, you are really "self-employed". Yes, you have a
profit, but that`s before you conside]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:17:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I am going to expand on Craig`s ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I am going to expand on Craig`s post even more.
When people say "I have my own business", sometimes it only means "I own my own job". If you are doing the manufacturing (or service) yourself, you are really "self-employed". Yes, you have a profi]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:17:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[
There are a couple of thoughts]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
There are a couple of thoughts I`d like to bring forward, inspired by
JohnQH`s post. He`s making two excellent points, but they have some
context to keep in mind.

The first point refers to charging per-hour labor costs. In almost all
busine]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:17:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Excellent advice given so far. T]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Excellent advice given so far. The concept of reaching only 1% of the market is an interesting concept and you have to start somewhere. You can`t get to 2% unless you go through 1% first. As a long term idea, I`m not sure the idea of cornerning 1% of a ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:17:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I like the idea. I think there i]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I like the idea. I think there is a market.
However, the challenge is how much you can charge for it vs how much time you spend on it. It is a mathmatical questions about profit.
For example (I made the numbers up since I have no idea wh]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:17:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Anyone selling to the pet market]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Anyone selling to the pet market likely has a good idea. :-) And the custom doggie beds seem to be a fine accessory. 

We do custom office chair slipcovers, although we`ve put that on the
back burner while getting our signal flags going. But it`]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Ok... So I once heard a successf]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Ok... So I once heard a successful entrepreneur say that his industry is a 5 billion dollar industry (I think it was custom window coverings) and that his goal was to corner only 1/1000th of market.&#160; I`ve always considered this an extremely interestin[...]]]></description>
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