Money Earned: $380.05
Money Spent: $157.68
Balance: $222.37
I’m pretty good at patience. I’ll sit on hold for 20 minutes and not be bothered. Sometimes I’m too patient. I’ll be in a waiting room or something and people will forget about me and I won’t say anything. I just sort of go with the flow.
But I’m at the end of my rope. Three weeks in and I’m waiting on my cards from VistaPrint. They say they shipped them Friday. It’s been four mailing days since then and I’m just nervous. The mail dude always brings us the wrong mail. Every other day we get mail for the people up one block and I’m beginning to think he took my cards to the nice folks on Fleetwood. I can’t begin to sign up sub-contractors without them and this month is nearly gone. Every day I lose eats into my $100,000 goal, forcing me to make more money each day to make up for lost time.
Yesterday, I called a slew of vendors; Georgia Pacific, Kimberly Clark, Halco Lighting, Westinghouse…all to begin the process of allowing me to sell their products. I haven’t heard back from anyone.
Also, I called four different credit card processing companies so I could take credit card payments. In the end I went with Innovative Merchant Solutions. They are owned by the same company that owns Quickbooks, a really expensive book-keeping program. Part of the deal is you get a free copy of Quickbooks for using their service, that saves me about $300 bucks. Not too shabby. And their rates are pretty good too. Call Nick Schweitzer @ 410-905-3406 if you need merchant services of any kind. Innovative Merchant Solutions seems to have a terrifically priced product with some really advanced features.
Anyway, I’m going to post the rest of these New Age books on Amazon and hopefully make some money.
See you in the trenches,
Tim
Broke 
Have you spoken to your post master about the mail service? Or had you thought maybe to get a PO box?
We had the same trouble here for a while, turns out it was the relief driver making the mistakes. I mentioned the service trouble to the regular driver and the bad deliveries stopped.
A potential company – Spartan chemical, great products sold by distributers, we use them. Another would be 3M. They have good products also, and a larger inventory covering more uses. One more – Rubbermaid products. Lots of janitorial and commercial stuff.