Please Help Me Start a Business
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       Bill and Warren got together for about an hour to discuss the idea. Bill's heart condition and car made it difficult to rescue large items, but Bill had salvaged pictures, small appliances, chairs and many other household items. Bill had already made several hundred dollars selling items to friends. In the discussion Bill mentioned a need for money by the church Bill attended. Bill also talked about a friend who had a big barn. Bill had an interest in blue grass music and had actually developed several blue grass festivals.

       Warren made several suggestions: (1) Contact the church to develop a source of labor and people who had a truck. Their volunteer effort could be used to generate funds for the church. (2) Talk to the friend about using the barn to store items salvaged. (3) Consider developing a festival as a fund raising event to launch the project. We scheduled a time to get together again to evaluate progress. No charge for the first meeting, this time. That probably was a mistake.

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