Hi Randy...good to see you're STILL "Alive and Well"...as I am AND.... STILL "doing our OWN thing"....without....Gummit help.

In THIS economy....ya DON'T need a lot of 'Credentials"!

MY Business Attitude has always been....SEE if it Sells, FIRST.....THEN....find a way to "Supply what you sold"!

So many people I've known.....come up with a good idea (they think)...then, spend HUMONGUS HOURS....and....MONEY.....trying to "perfect" their idea, THEN.....when it comes time to go out to the Marketplace and "Get Orders"...they find their "Thing" won't sell or....they don't know how to sell it.

It's a shame that most people go about this "Bass-Ackwards".

I learned LONG AGO to....see IF you can get orders....then....find out how to fill those orders.

If your "Niche" market won't pay what YOU want them to pay...or...if YOU don't know HOW to sell them to pay what YOU want them to pay.... then...why spend another minute developing your product or "thing"!

Sure....to the "goody-two-shoes" crowd....this technique smells of "Con"!

Horse-Hockey! In REAL Life..."Nothing Moves UNLESS it Sells!" If the creator CAN'T get sales...at the price HE wants....then why pursue.

So....re: my MUGS;
You bet....almost EVERY Mug Supplier I talked with.....when I explained that I wanted to buy their Mugs "for Resale"....agreed to give me the ASI price (4C) even though I was NOT an ASI Member.

It's called...."Money Talks and BS walks!"

Anyway...thanks again for chiming in. Good to see you're "Alive and Kickin". For the last 2 wks I've been trying to contact one of my ol-time Direct Sales buddies (who told me back in Sept that they found "Stage 4 Cancer" in his colon.....at the same time I went in for MY Colonostomy and was found to be "Polyp Free")

Take care,
Don Alm in Semi-Retiremitville