I don’t believe I need to tell anybody this economy is tricky and many people have been having a verytough time. I lost my job about four months ago when the facility where I was employed closed down two of their production lines and my brother in law, Barney got his pink slip last month when his company commented that they were closing the doors forever.

Both of us spent a fair period of time and energylooking for new jobs but with no luck. However, we were clear on the fact that we continue to needed income to pay our bills and support our families so Barney and I decided to go into business on our own.

We had no clear concept on what this operation would be as my only real ability and experience was in producing washing machines and Barney had worked as a quality controls inspector at a candy plant. However, my young neighbor convinced us that rap music, rappers and that hip hop approach to life was the freshest growth trend in our country today. Now I must admit that both Barney and I agree the entire’rapper scene’ is just plain foolish but if it earns money then who are we to argue.

Somehow we made a decision to go after the jewellery segment of the hip hop market with the plan that we could start off rather small and just offer our goods for sale at flea markets until we could afford to open a real store. So, our next task was to find a wholesale hip hop jewelry outlet.

We quickly discovered that we had a major problem in that we were a new business with no track record and no credit score which suggested that no-one would sell us any inventory apart from money. They were all very polite to reassure us that credit terms would be possible after we were established but it was all going to be cash on delivery at the start. We started scrambling then to find a no credit check cash loan.

Well, we ultimately got our money together. Not really as much as we wanted but enough to at least buy some starter inventory and get the project rolling and we had also found some promising wholesale outlets that we presumed we could deal comfortably with. However, none of these wholesale sellers was in out town so we were going to require to go which meant making airline and hotel reservations.

Getting the airline reservations was very easy and most of the hotels now subscribe to a hotel internet marketing system with online reservations that made dealing with them also pretty simple.