I was a little surprised when I boss asked me out of nowhere, “did you receive a message from Santa?” and I was like “huh?”. When working we communicate via Skype and I have specifically created a Skype account for this project alone. Then I remembered an email with the “Message from Santa Clause” subject and told her that I immediately deleted it without opening since I thought it was just one of those marketing newsletters. She laughed and said not to worry as she still has the link, thankfully I still haven’t deleted the email permanently. I opened it and had a very pleasant surprise. See video above.
Business
Business Opportunities
There was a time back during my call center days when my friends and I talked about business opportunities and how we’d like to run our business someday. Aisa told me that back during her college days she used to work part time at Thirsty and how cheap it is to acquire franchising rights for it. Over the past couple of years there have been several business in the city that offer cheap franchise opportunities to those who are interested in managing their own business.
Hopefully someday I’d be able to put up my own business whether its my own product line or a franchising racket.
Shopping For Creams
An old friend of my mom’s asked me once to check ebay for several brands of anti wrinkle creams. From the looks of it they were all imported and not available in any of the pharmacies here in the city. Since she is not internet savvy she does not have any account on any of the online stores and she does not have a paypal account as well. She said that if I find at least one of the brands she asked to search then I would buy it for her and she would pay me for the cost as well as the shipping. She also said she’d cook me my favorite pasta in return.
Reselling
Most of my mom’s friends are what I would call vain. I mean they are always talking about new make ups, techniques on how to beautify themselves and hide away signs of aging. One of them is actually reselling what she thinks the best eye wrinkle cream in the market. She said that her daughter who is a nurse in the United States sent them over and since she has proven the product useful and effective she resells them to her friends.
Online Printing
With Missy’s wedding plans set into motion, she has delegated certain tasks to her close circle of friends. Mai Mai and I are in charge of printing the wedding invitations; Grace and Eve are working on the flowers and so on and so forth. Mai Mai came up with the design for the wedding invitation just a couple of days back and we have showed it to Missy for approval. Both bride and groom to be liked it very much and now we are just looking for a cheap online printing service to reproduce it for us, there are prolly about 145 guests so she asked us to print at least 150 copies. So far we are still scouting for as to where to get them reproduced.
Scouring for Drums
There was a time when back in college when the dean of the college of commerce in the school I used to go to asked us [ a couple of her students] to scout for stainless steel drums to be used for the University Days celebration. The budget we had to that celebration wasn’t much so we had to look for drums that were rather incredibly cheap so as not to compromise the rest of the other stuff. We were given one weekend to find a company that sells the cheapest drums in the market. We found one … and I must say we managed to get a decent rate. So job well done!
Professional Help
There are times when school work is just way too much and that “help” is needed though others would prolly think of it as cheating but in this world of survival it is mandatory. So when projects and research papers beat each other with deadlines one can always rely the help of professionals for a certain fee. Over the years there are several companies in the internet offering custom essay writing services, this is highly useful especially for those working professionals who basically don’t have much time in their hands to write their own papers and submit it on time.
Take for instance this professor that I know of way back in college between working as a full time college professor and owning a small coffee shop she is also working on finishing her masters degree at that time it’s a good she’s single otherwise she would have to make room for family time too. Anyways there was a period during the school year which took a toll on her, she had to come up with examination questionnaire for the final period, submit a proposal for the upcoming summer term and complete a dissertation writing and editing project for her masteral class. So with the help of the internet she looked for an online company that offers such a service and let them do her project for her and nobody was the wiser well except for me who picked up the hard copy from the courier’s office.
For Your Business
Since they started their business of helping people move their stuff from one place to another they have been on the look out for cheap and reliable truck accessories to add to their equipment necessary for the business. They don’t charge much but I am beginning to think they would given the expenses incurred in their daily operations. They haven’t increased their rates and hopefully they won’t have too.
Office Supplies
There’s a book store here that sells office supplies by bulk like instead of buying just one ream of short bond papers they are all bundled by 5 reams and you could get them at a cheaper price. The same thing goes with notebooks, paper clips, folders, binders, pens, pencils, crayons and everything else. Pretty cool huh? The only downside I can see is that you don’t get to choose the colors lol I mean they are all sealed and packed so no selections allowed.
Point of Sale
As a startup boutique one of the many things they start looking into after finding the place and getting settled in was a stable POS System to complete the store and have it open to customers. They searched and scouted for reasonable deals and after 2 months of scouting found an ideal one; I was told the guys from that company spent three days before the store’s opening to teach the hired cashiers and the owner itself how the system goes, they had it tested for full 3 days to check for any possible problems and so it worked well.
The boutique has been operating for close to 6 months now and they haven’t had any reason to call technical support to their sales system; I was told the fee for the entire system including installation and technical support for a year amounted to 3K USD not bad if you ask me. The owner thinks the inclusive technical support for a year is a rather generous offer, most company would offer a separate contract for technical support or they would offer a case to case type of support.
I guess they landed a rather nice deal and hopefully they’d have no issues whatsoever and that the business would flourish
Lawyers For Hire!
Seems like quite a few people need lawyers these days for a thing or two, I guess we need them for all sorts of reasons not just for those huge criminal type ones. But even for small things I guess it’s better to have papers for backup on almost all types of transactions. If ever you need one and are living somewhere in the Oklahoma area then you’re in luck as there are several Oklahoma City lawyer out there available to help you whether that’d be for real estate needs, criminal cases or what not, there’s always someone available.
Surveillance
When I was a little kid everytime we go to the grocery I’d always stop by the candy section and pick out those candies whose packs were torn apart and mom would always scold me because that’s not allowed and that every grocery store has its own video surveillance equipment that would capture every single movement of the customers. I guess that were true as a manager did approach us once and said it’s okay for a 5 year old to go picking out those candies who were either accidentally torn apart from their packs or are just scattered around on the shelf. I miss being a kid!
Online Store for Men and Women
Found an online store for men and women that sells rather affordable clogs and shoes; if you are looking for some new footwear amongst other goodies then try googling for Dansko and it’d take you to that shop directly. You might be lucky to catch some holiday sale or some free shipping discounts.
Ideal for gift giving, have them deliver the item to your loved one and worry no more about the packing and what not.
AC Down
They specialize in air conditioning repair, heating repair, new replacement systems, duct work repairs and new construction HVAC and much more, so when Lizzy told me in passing that the air-conditioning unit they have in the main hall broke down Austin HVAC came to mind. They’re not a big company but they have established a name that breathes quality in workmanship. Since Lizzy and her small company is loacated somewhere in Austin then this company would be the perfect place to get her AC up and running. Hopefully they would be able to help her out. It’s not good for the business office to be without air conditioning for long.
Media Advertising
Is your company in need of a new type of marketing to boost sales and service income? Then media marketing would be a great option for your company, the audience right is heavily surrounded by different forms of media and it is a great opportunity to manipulate this variety of media to boost sales income. Do you need your product to be available in TV commercials? But don’t know where to begin? Then the San Diego Video Production Company would be the company to help you out. One of the services they offer is the creation of high end corporate film production, which can be utilized not only in the making of your company’s infomercial; it is also good when creating training modules for your employees. In the current technological age we are in, in house training with a live professor is close to becoming obsolete. So what are you waiting for? Give this company a ring and see what else they can offer you.
The Man
Do these men look familiar to you? Well the one on the left is Nouveau Riche CEO Jim Piccolo and right beside him is Muhammad Ali. Wonder why they’re seen together in a picture? I mean what could they possibly have in common? This pic was taken on one of the charity events they’re both in. Jim Piccolo is the man behind Nouveau Riche which offers others the opportunity to create wealth through its unique real estate investment curriculum as well as its generous marketing approach. He said with wealth comes responsibility and people who come to wealth in a blink of an eye are usually the ones who’d fall under grace because they let wealth rule them, not balancing wealth with the given responsibility.
Jim Piccolo has always been known for being that visionary when it comes to business and whats new in the market way before others recognize its potential. He acts on them quickly creating thriving businesses; with the money he has acquired he gives it back to the community by supporting multiple charitable foundations for the young and old alike. To name a few he’s supporting: The Rock, Judi’s House, Starlight Foundation, Help4Kidz, Help4Teenz and he also founded the The Frank Edward Piccolo Foundation in honor of his father who passed away after a battle with cancer.
Money
Isn’t it inspiring when someone you know as part of a lower socioeconomic class crosses over to the world of wealth and class all of a sudden with the little stroke of luck and hard work? It is something that I ultimately want to be a part of. Successful stories like this happen more commonly than we realize it. Nouveau Riche, as these people are called exist everywhere and as a matter of fact I personally know some individuals who make good examples. It’s not always easy to tell who will make it or not in this society but self-made individuals certainly make everything look possible.
Looking back in history and the abundant list of Nouveau Riche community, we can see a common denominator in all of them. They are all hard-working, ambitious and serious about what they do. They usually reached their status in venturing to the business world and their risks have most definitely paid off big time.
Nouveau Riche University where participants will be provided with comprehensive training to pave the way for the self-made billionaires. Now is a good time as any to be successful.
A Proposal
A couple of friends and I at work were thinking of going into franchising, franchising one of the refreshment brands popular in the city. A lot of questions, ideas, suggestions came up and discussion was flowing endless amongst us on the floor, druggie said we’d need to have an accountant in the team for the auditing and such. A couple of us kinda agreed that auditing and basic accounting can be done by anyone in the team and seeing that its not that big a business proposal we were thinking that we can just use a software that’d do the financial reporting for us.