Category — Business Ideas

I read an article on CNN Money about white collar workers being affected by the downturn. Kevin Rigsby was a former district service manager with Circuit City and when CC closed down, he was out of a job. But Rigsby bought a small mobile franchise that sells power tools to independent repair shops, auto dealerships and industrial manufacturer.

Rigsby says, “Just because you’ve been selling electronics before doesn’t mean you can’t learn to sell something else,”

The point is to re-tool yourself! Although this downturn accelerated the demise of certain jobs, it has been happening for quite some time. Stock brokers, travel agents and real estate are going the way of the dinosaur because they were just middle man in many instances. (Some of the above agents have changed and are doing quite well)

Question : Can you join all the black dots above with just 3 straight lines?

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Some time ago, I thought of selling the car. It is precisely because of what I thought would happen to the financial system worldwide. What I thought would happen, did but I did take into consideration that the Feds would do something about it.

I’m no market analyst but I was watching markets around the world. The downtrend all around raise flag in my head. Anyway, looking at the way things are going, this is a period of uncertainty still. Many investors are wary of how big a rescue plan need to be to make sure the market’s don’t implode.

Fast forward to today, oil prices drop a little and everyone who drives is looking forward to a drop in gas prices. I have to admit, I’m one of those, optimistic that gas prices will go back to something more normal.

Then, I stumbled on this this article in CNN Money.

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