Mirror: A British businessman conned governments around the world by selling them useless bomb detectors that were little more than golf ball finders, a jury heard [last week]. Jim McCormick allegedly charged up to £27,000 for the fake devices, which he also flogged to police and military services for a “handsome but unwarranted profitâ€. Brochures […]
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You might be able to sell snow to eskimos, but why? Put your sales skills to good use and actually sell something to someone that actually needs it, says Lishen Nair. > Salesmen of the right calibre were and still are able to generate strong sales. But their job in the 21st century is also
In this excerpt from the book Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, Dave Jamieson explains how baseball cards first became seen as promising investments, setting the stage for a decade of speculation and overproduction: Around the mid-1970s, a small cabal of serious baseball card collectors grew wise to the fact that their
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Watch this video. BTW, there’s more oil in North Dakota than in Saudi Arabia.
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I love reading about strange businesses like this one. Dustin Noffsinger sells Christmas trees during the winter and camel rides in the summer. The New Review has more: Since Al moved from Southern California to this rural North County town two months ago, the 7-year-old Arabian camel has spent much of the past two months
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Groceries in Manhattan are so expensive that one guy with a truck has started a business delivering groceries. He will go to Costco and split the savings with you. Each Non-Perishable item for sale has a “Costco” price and the “Average New York City” price for the exact same item but with Costco-sized bulk packing.
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With CompostNow you can home compost, without composting at home. Members receive a small bin to keep in your kitchen or on your back porch. Fill it with all you organic waste. This includes all food waste, paper products, and anything else compostable. As a CompostNow member, you are entitled to receive the final results
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Fast Company “And then there’s always Arkansas,” Kiefer recalls discussing over dinner one night. That might sound a little strange if you know nothing about retail. But Northwest Arkansas is America’s undisputed epicenter of selling stuff. Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is based there, as is Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt, the trucking giant that
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In 1975, 80% of all deaths on a motorcycle occurred in people 29 years and younger. Today greater than 30% of all deaths are in people 50 years and older. The 29 and younger crowd only account for about 25%. What’s this mean? If you’re trying to sell motorcycles, or motorcycle-related accessories to the youth,
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In Bjurholm, Sweden you’ll find the world’s only producer of moose cheese. The Moose House, a 59-acre moose farm with three moose that produce a total of only 660 pounds of cheese per year. Since moose only lactate for a few months per year, and they require almost complete silence while milking, the process is
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