Slow needs a Bachelor PARTY
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Re: Slow needs a Bachelor PARTY
by droid_ca » Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:07 am
Hey Slow you ever hear of an "Angel Investor" if it is something that you may be interested in let me know only thing is if you don't pay it can cost big time...Just some food for thought ....PM me if you want to talk actual numbers
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where reality runs a razor thin seam between fact and possibility;
Anywhere I roam where I lay my head is home....
♥♠ “Fide Canem” ♦♣
Please check out my build thread
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=52816
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Re: Slow needs a Bachelor PARTY
by Woodbutcher » Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:00 pm
What I was trying to do was get Mike thinking, outside the box if necessary. A few things came from his post. Land is expensive and is being bought up by big farmers and investors. That means there is money to be made. Maybe not a lot the next few years but soon enough. If you can't compete with them find a niche market that they can't or don't want to be in. I am not a farmer nor do I pretend to know the farm/ranch business. But I have been self employed for 40 years and have always made a good living by being able to adapt to my market as things changed. Both regulatory and the progression of my industry. So Slow needs to do the same thing. As I see him now, he is like a man sitting in a boat in the middle of a pond during a drought. The pond is slowly drying up. If he doesn't make it rain he will die. So to make it rain he needs to find a new way to make money with what he has. If Mike is going to get married he needs to find a way to earn some REAL money. Selling off a truck to buy a ring is drying up the pond. That truck can make you money, a ring will not. Find another way to buy a ring. Mike you must have enough scrap metal and old machinery sitting and rusting that could be sold. Try to turn steel into gold. My understanding is you has some small acreage and some head of cattle. If cattle can make you money where crops can't, then think about adding cattle. Are you able to grow your own feed, or do you need to buy feed. Buying feed lowers your return. Mike would know the answers. Here in Illinois we have farmers that do some interesting things on what would be called hobby farms. My Daughter lives in the city. There is a small hobby farm just over the boarder in Wisconsin, about an hours drive away. This farm raises all kinds of different vegetables. Every week they deliver by their own trucks an assortment of fresh vegetables that were just harvested the day before. You do not know what you are going to get but it is always fresh and the highest quality. So each Sunday they would deliver to her. They had a route for everyday going somewhere. We have a place in western Illinois near the Mississippi river. The town is called Galena and was the home of General Ulysses S Grant. It is a small tourist town with many nice restaurants. The local Chamber of Commerce developed a program to support local Farmers. The locals raise vegetables, honey, cheese, bakery good, etc and the restaurants buy the local products. This in turn keeps the money in the area. It works very well.
Will these things work for Mike? I don't know, but the point is if things are drying up the way you are use to making a living. Look for another way and use what you have. When I first went into the furniture making business I did it with 2 basic Sears Craftsman saws. I built and sold over 1 million dollars worth of furniture, with those saws, before moving up to big modern saws. None of my customers knew what I used to make their furniture with. We supplied a 60 store electronics retailer with 3 stereo stands. We got the order because as a small company we could produce new items faster then the big companies. When we got the first order from this company we had never seen an order this large. Plus we were near broke. We took the purchase order to the bank and worked out a loan to to keep us going. We also took the purchase order to our wood supplier and worked out extra dating on our bill for materials. All this was done in a few short weeks and we were in production. This moved us to the next level. Bigger building, and better equipment. Mike can do the same thing. While you are awake at 3 AM, search the internet for alternative ways of running a small ranch and farm in your area. Armed with a good business plan, you may be able to secure a loan. If not you have some friends here that may be interested. But be it a bank or individual investors, they want to see how you will be able to return a profit. Maybe investigate small business loan or special programs through the government. They give money away all the time. Search for it. Mike, you are just as worthy as anyone else. You are a hardworking guy who just need s to work smarter not harder. It can be done.
Will these things work for Mike? I don't know, but the point is if things are drying up the way you are use to making a living. Look for another way and use what you have. When I first went into the furniture making business I did it with 2 basic Sears Craftsman saws. I built and sold over 1 million dollars worth of furniture, with those saws, before moving up to big modern saws. None of my customers knew what I used to make their furniture with. We supplied a 60 store electronics retailer with 3 stereo stands. We got the order because as a small company we could produce new items faster then the big companies. When we got the first order from this company we had never seen an order this large. Plus we were near broke. We took the purchase order to the bank and worked out a loan to to keep us going. We also took the purchase order to our wood supplier and worked out extra dating on our bill for materials. All this was done in a few short weeks and we were in production. This moved us to the next level. Bigger building, and better equipment. Mike can do the same thing. While you are awake at 3 AM, search the internet for alternative ways of running a small ranch and farm in your area. Armed with a good business plan, you may be able to secure a loan. If not you have some friends here that may be interested. But be it a bank or individual investors, they want to see how you will be able to return a profit. Maybe investigate small business loan or special programs through the government. They give money away all the time. Search for it. Mike, you are just as worthy as anyone else. You are a hardworking guy who just need s to work smarter not harder. It can be done.
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