I think I'm in the wrong business

Although I rarely got credit for the sales I created people sure did copy me over the years. It's really amazing how much advice I gave was taken and implemented as policy. Most of my ideas and concepts went through one person who has dropped off the face of the earth leaving me with someone who doesn't understand the little things. I'm right back where I started it would seem.

I can remember when I 1st started selling prostitutes to politicians I mean Halloween props on Ebay it was 'otay if it took 5 days for an order to be processed at one facility. To me this was outrageous. I didn't quite understand it. The only thing I could figure is orders were being held until a backlogged quantity was realized so they could negotiate a new rate. The other facility thought 48 hours was okay. To me it was totally unacceptable.  I strongly believed there was no excuse to dilly dally when I worked in factories where I had to process 200 items an hour!

Another problem I have is the lack of continuity and logic I continue to find. I need order in order to create a business plan. I need to be able to rely on shopping carts to set prices. I can't play email tag for days while customers wait.

My concept is pretty simple. Accurate pictures, descriptions, and prices. Fast processing and shipping. If you say you don't make money on shipping, prove it!  I know prices. I also know how to negotiate better ones. Don't sit there and act like things can't be done. The threat of taking your entire business to a competitor will make a shipper stand up and take notice. I spent 5 figures on shipping last year. Some people made a lot of profit on that. The least they could do is be transparent with me.

I don't like to keep customers waiting unnecessarily. I don't like to wait as a customer and neither does anyone else. I realize based on experience not speculation people often have plans in place for whatever they order. The last thing I want to do is interfere by delaying them.

I'm really pissed off right now. I can't get any help it would seem. I am better than this.

Some businesses and people get the shaft

A number of years ago the very rich automobile industry received bailouts because it was decided they were "too big to fail". Oh they were big alright and bloated with subsidized profits and full of shit.

Every once in a while without any scrutiny cnn will publish the story of someone hard on their luck and the next thing you know donations are rolling in and they have a couch to continue the same existence as before. I wonder if cnn will do a follow up how those people destroy the houses that are just granted to them?

Under obama he forgave all those people making minimum wage who thought they could afford a mortgage of $2500 a month plus utilities, food, clothing etc.

Here I sit struggling in the dead of spring to make a living off of Halloween. Sales are expectantly down but that doesn't mean there isn't work to do and tracks to lay and promotion to run. I should be ordering costumes, make up, and other accessories along with running ads on Facebook, Google, etc. I should be prop building as well.

Well I tried the indiegogo and got the cold shoulder. These sites are fine if you're giving away free mp3's that you can easily duplicate for free and send in an email but helping a small business compete with rich companies isn't as easy. Many of the industry leaders started out rich to begin with. They got in while the going was good. I don't have the luxury they had.

After being raped by the tax man I'm without working capital and my credit lines are squeezed. It's really not fair because I've worked really hard at this. I made the decision around 2006 to venture off in this direction and I have made a solid mark but I'm just one person. All the giant retailers do is copy me like all the other peons.

It would seem in this world if you're not cheating and stabbing people in the back you're destined to be poor. If you don't live off of subsidized income like a lot of people do otherwise known as taxes and you didn't inherit it chances are you are not doing very well right now unless you're selling heroin for the cia.

It would seem I've been way too nice to the competition. They're pissing right down my back by advertising on my ebay listings. This would include millionaire companies stealing my customers away from me. Imagine that ebay sells advertising space to my customers on my own listings I paid for!!!

I need to start some fucking trouble.

Imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

Every time I come up with a business idea I see people hopping on board. Sometimes I'm just a weathervane to alert people what to sell other times my complete ad. and sometimes pictures are stolen.

Now I've found a new one, my name. No not Billy Bogart but Halloween Skeletons is now being used as keyword spam in all meta descriptions. Basically they want my sales and could careless if my sales die along with me. That's my impression.

I also don't trust business associates of anyone who operate too close. I also don't like how these tactics reduce my profits to the point it's hardly worth the effort. The main problem is too much competition. Competition that gets into price wars and everyone loses.

I've said it a million times I'd rather be just working on music all day long. The problem with that is music sales are the result of hype and no one is getting worked up over me or investing millions to develop a brand. That's really what the music industry is. Now since they can no longer develop bands they fabricate the whole sale with crappy presentations like american idle. The very word band I think is short for brand. The other problem is people no longer feel obligated to purchase music. Even if they sign up for itunes which turns musicians into chinese laborers all they have to pay is a small monthly fee for unlimited dl's. I sometimes get paid pennies per download.

There is the idea of making a cd and selling physical products but that costs money and very few are willing to chip in as in kickstarter etc for non cookie cutter music. There is another website that funds projects maybe I should try that.

Here's my ad.

Wanted:  Musical sugarmama

A Shed Recording Studio

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Found the perfect Djembe

Not going to picture it but it looks positively tribal. Why not post a picture because it's probably sell. It's got great symbolism. also I heard this "brand" of Djembes played and they sound very much like the tribal sound I want.

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Nothing creative was ever realized through sobriety

It's true I've tested the waters. However inebriates come in all shapes, sizes, colors and especially flavors. I didn't drink coffee until I was like 29. I rarely drank alcohol until I was in my mid 30's. I "inhaled" for the 1st time when I was 39. However I've had some of my strongest highs cycling for days on end, inhaling the musty fragrance of a park that surrounds several ponds as life returns as dramatically as the splattering of color as a witch is crushed by a Kansas acid freak.

I've heard people preach this and that doesn't lead to creativity but little do those who utter such realize but the fact is they're not very creative. For all their rebellious nature they were simply going through a phase not a journey. They wouldn't know a spontaneous thought if they sat on it and it turned out to be a 6" high thumb tack.

My 1st grade teacher said I day dreamed too much. I think I was staring at her legs. The following year I found out not all legs were the same. Her name changed after her divorce and she went from a 7 year old's 1st crush to an uptight bitch who probably hooked a dildo up to a cake mixer and the set controls to puree. I was day dreaming because I was on a different level of consciousness and refused to be tainted by conventionality.

now that i think of it I really should become a better fan of Captain Beefheart. Just sayin'.

It's amazing how reaction to humor or anything is based upon inference. Before the killer strikes bold dramatic music builds up and concludes with a crescendo thus teaching you after 1000 horror flicks how it sounds to be killed by a homicidal maniac that is unless you just watched "The last house on the left".

One thing that I rather liked was the introduction of something peculiar or contrasting to an otherwise normal scene or picture. I think Monty Python influenced me a lot here. One either hates them or loves them. If you're unfamiliar with sarcasm, satire, parody at a young age(which you would) you will not find them at all funny. Why you may become very nervous and seek shelter of the familiar with your favorite sitcom including mind guiding laugh track. Once you've experienced enough life where you've been screwed over, cheated, victim of authoritarianism, told to behave for the 5876th time you will consider forming a religion based upon Monty Python and or never beable to look at judges the same way again.

Having said that I think it's painfully obvious I need a few new toys. I've derived a rather brilliant way to finance my shopping sprees for some really cool boutique objects worthy of fetish praise. The exact details are classified but the need grows. The knee grows?  Nope, although I almost got hit by a taxi driver in the knee today. I'm thinking kind of Bettie Page pin up, bondage kind of scene. Absolutely no fluid exchange that is unless you require several cocktails to get in the mood to be hog tied in your underwear, stocking, and stilletos next to a vintage guitar amplifier which I will demonstrate on Youtube. I will pay you no notice. You will be the penguin a top my set. I also refuse to speak in a sort of falsetto like voice. Be disease and weight proportionate and ready to sign a release form in front of a notary of the public. That's public not pubic. I'm not interested in your love canal. I'm on a mission frum 'gad. Actually I'm only in it for the money. You will be rewarded handsomely(like $50 and all the drinks you can handle within an hour without passing out and appearing as if you were a cadaver making people wonder what I've got in the fruit cellar.