The cost of advertising is more expensive than ever. Many businesses can't afford its high costs, but an inexpensive form of advertising has come to the rescue, it is the human billboard. There is no better way to advertise a local business than having a person walking near it with a sandwich sign. In some cases it will double the volume of a local store that is advertising a sale. Diners and supermarkets have reported increases in their sales by having a person with a sandwich sign standing ne

I was always good at outside sales and worked for a soda bottling company selling beverage machines. The pay was not great but I enjoyed the prestige of representing such a world famous corporation. The company offered prizes for the salesmen that sold the most machines and I was often the winner of a large screen TV console or an air conditioner. That was before the company decided to sell their machines by advertisements. They then disbanded their sales force and I was out of a job. After man

You have just bought a beverage vending machine from the manufacturer that cost you two thousand dollars. The next day a salesman arrives at your home claiming that he can find a location for the vending machine that will earn you two thousand dollars per month. But he wants you to give him five thousand dollars now for his efforts in advance. He is willing to give you a written guarantee that if at the end of six months you are not completely satisfied with the machines earnings your money will

Retired parents living comfortably on their social security check might be in for a big surprise if the recession gets much worse. One or two of their children might be out of a job and need money to survive until they can find one. Many parents will pay the rent and food bills until the economy returns to normal. If you can help them it is still your responsibility to do so, but if you don't have the money, they might have to come home and live with you. A person returning home after so many ye

Get ready for the biggest tragedy in American history. If the price of gasoline ever goes above five bucks a gallon, millions of gas guzzling automobiles will be worthless. Filling up a full tank will then cost over one hundred bucks. With a recession coming on and the unemployment rate rising many of those gas guzzlers will be unaffordable. Most will have to be turned into scrap metal. Many workers who can't afford a new car will have to piggyback with a neighbor that is traveling in their d

My last few attempts to go into a small business were failures. I lost over a hundred thousand dollars of the money I inherited from my uncle Henry. But now I had more business experience and was going to give it another shot. There was a newspaper stand for sale that I noticed while reading the business opportunity section. It was in a commercial building and the owner was asking one hundred and twenty five thousand for it. The ad also said that it was a small gold mine. Since I am not a quick

Becoming your own boss is the dream of almost every person that feels they are underpaid or unjustly treated on their job. Not having to kiss the ass of a superior employee every day is a step toward personal freedom. Many accept their slavish fate and go on doing what they hate. But other more adventurous people go into a small business hoping that one day they will become their own boss. Unfortunately only fifty percent of them are still in business after five years, the rest fulfill the dream

One of the worst experiences for a guy, is to be out of a job. Men since the beginning of time has always been providers but without a job a guy can't even provide for himself. If you are out of work and are tired of searching for a job there is hope for you. Apply for a job at a messenger service---they are always hiring. The pay is not great, they usually start you off as an independent contractor. Which means that they don't have to pay you minimum wages. You get paid by the distance you trav

Keeping clean goes beyond our home. It is just as important to have clean streets, parks and beaches as it is to have a clean apartment to live in. Every where you go there is a nasty looking cigarette butt on the ground. Not only do they look bad but they smell. When I try to lay out my blanket on the beach there is no spot that is free of them. It takes me over twenty minutes to clear the area before I can lay down my blanket. Even when I am at rest trying to look at the ocean those dam cigar