I am back in Florida after the long driving trip. It is 1300 miles between Florida and Chicago and I make the trip several times a year. If I were an executive that travels by air that would be no big thing but I have to drive and carry all my tools and parts. When you own the company you have to do whatever the business demands.
If the cash flow from Chicago supported it I could make changes in Chicago that would get me out of my van but I have found it difficult to expand the business in this economic environment. Raising some operating capital and hiring an employee to tune the pianos and or find new customers would be good but banks do not loan money to anybody that needs it these days. My web site now has a shopping cart and products displayed that customers can buy online but the competition online is very stiff and that has not been the boom to the business that I had hoped. The business in Florida is growing slowly and I have concluded that I just need to work the business there. One of my favorite quotes from the bible is Proverbs 21:5 which says "steady plodding brings prosperity ; hasty speculation brings poverty". These 24 hour drives take a lot out of me but I will be traveling for the foreseeable future.
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