As a proudly
former -"small bizmess owner" I want to add a bit here*. As I said, the single biggest mistake you could do is send them out with your burning, but indifferent assembly, finishing and setup. I am not a big "well the old ones were nitro!" kind of guy, but I understand it as well as anything... however, even if I were to want one of these finished with nitro!! by tonar!!, I'd want it to be
durable nitro, IFKWIM.
The second biggest mistake would be to sell yourself too cheap, I'd take it "a few at a time" until you've seem what "the market can do" as those happy bond traders say. Hint: if the first guy you sell one to orders three more at the same price and you see the first one on Ebay for $1,000 more, well the market done told you something.
Nextly furthemmost, you want to sniff around the "services" type of business. You may fly for a while, but if you're just honestly piling up money left and right - well I know fer a fact that the IRS really does have programs to sniff out internet tax "dodgers" and agents to follow up (zounds....) Hey it worked for Al Capone so they did it to the online "casinos"
(tho in my opp anyone who just GIVES their bank account info to somebody living on a "tax haven" overseas isle... well U just do deserve to be poor). If you can book these as services rather than merchandise, it can go a lot easier. For example your distribution/marketing whomever is buying the bodies, they just happen to get delivered to you first might satisfy the model. Or if you just DO keep 1/3 or so of the value of them in an account somewhere, if the IRS come a-sniffin' you can just PAY 'em, surprises the hell out of 'em too. :icon_thumright: (This was the diff between Willie Nelson & Donald Trump, & why Willie had to pay cash for a tank of gas and an ice cream cone, for a while there).
Them revenuers are easily the most computer-savvy of all our federal agencies, because of the headhunters=promotions kind of bounty system they run. And deny till they're out of breath, then clink
you cause you're annoying them
Though usually, just pretending to be really stupid gets you over the big hurdle.
And the biggie - many, many people incl. some of us (
) have found that pleasurable, seemingly-"good"-paying hobbies can overnight turn into flubbery fire-breathing giant warty monsters dribbling putrescent gore in your midnight Wheaties as soon as you commit to "units" and "time periods" and "inventory" and shit. Especially "time periods". You can ask Mayfly about his amps or me about catering or half-a-dozen other peeps.
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(I almost said proudly-failing sm bizmess ownr but I pulled it out in time... I swear I did!)
