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    Man, this sucks! So, I was notified the other day that my husband and I lost our main account for our business. This account paid about 60% of our bills. The reason has to do with supposedly being friends with a black drug dealer. This is just so rediculous!My husband doesn't even know this guy and he gets dropped. This is the second time this shit has happened. Both times the account was lost due to some derogatory race issues that had nothing to do with the business or my husband. My husband is black and white. He does all the work and has a helper who is Cuban/White. The helper looks like the typical white boy, and sometimes at customers locations, they go up to the helper asking questions instead of my husband. They think the 'white guy' is the owner or the boss. You know, living in a city with so many different races and cultures you would think this kind of shit don't really happen anymore. Well it does. All the time. And it really pisses me off because I am white and my husband is a mixed minority who keeps getting held back because of people and their race issues. Everytime there is a problem with other people of color, they are fired as well as every other black employee. This is not a good business ethic especially in the 21 st century. So anyhow, my husband says "well if worse comes to worse, I guess you'll have to go back to work." Ummm, I haven't danced since the SuperBowl and I really don't want to go back to work as a dancer in the city I am living in for various reasons. I just went back to school and am now working on my degree, plus my son is in Kindergarten which makes it difficult for me to work night hours. I can't believe this shit. It's times like these that you say, "Why did I chose to own my own business?" It is so hard. By far the hardest thing I or my husband has ever done. And it hasn't exactly came at the best time when the economy is puttering and new accounts are hard to come by. Oh what to do, what to do. I'm really trying to be patient and hope that these two potential accounts go through, because that would save the day and a whole many other to follow. It's like, man, the money is rolling in, you have prospect accounts lined up waiting to follow through, and them BAM!!! Why does it seem like right before you can taste success of the wealth you get fucked and then knocked right back down, to start all over again, except this time your almost half way above where you started?

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    Default Re: UHH, lost main business account!!!

    Are you guys in construction, by chance? People are hurting financially so bad right now in the housing industry. But making stuff up to end a contract is pretty crappy, but not unheard of.

    We lost our biggest account last winter, but we saw that coming down because we tracked their sales and saw that they were holding way too much inventory to continue with speculation. Since we saw it coming, we were able to step up our advertising efforts and are doing fine by shifting from new home construction into remodels and commercial property construction.

    I'm so sorry. I might have some ideas for finding more clients, but I don't know what industry you are in. Hopefully something will come up before you have to return to work. In the back of my mind I'm preparing to go back to dancing just in case the bottom drops out. I've been working out a lot and dieting trying to get back into stripper shape again. Just in case.


    Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!


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    ^^ No, actually it is a mobile detail company. We detail people's cars, trucks, semi's, limos and party buses, boats, motorcycles, rv's etc. The account was at a strip club and was for doing the limos and buses and washing employees cars on the weekends. Two of our potentail accounts though are both car rental companies and one of them has one rental company and two car lots. The other company only has one car rental lot but is talking about a couple hundred cars turnaround every other day.The only thing is that toursim is somewhat down and spending is definetely down and that has me thinking about a lot of things. One being that both of these potential accounts is currently looking for new locations. So neither one is a for sure thing. We used to have a lot of regular customers too, but lately they haven't been calling either because they are car dealers and they are finding it harder to get rid of their vehicles. Living in a tourist city sucks during hard economic times. I know a lot of industries are hurting right now, but we cater to people in the automotive industy primarily and that industry seems to be hurting right now. I think mainly because of the price of gas and other business expenses are continuosly going up, leaving less money to spend on goods and services. I'm thinking I might have to go out and try to swindle like two new accounts, but at the same time, if these other ones go through, we will have too much work and not enough time, supplies or workers to do it all. Uh, I hate the waiting game. Right now I'm waiting for one to send me details of the new location, and the other called back Tuesday of this week and wanted us to do a demo and then sign contracts if all went well, but the guy was supposed to text the adress and never did and then when we try to call, his mailbox is full and we haven't heard from him since. Sometimes I ask myself, how do people run business this way? It would be nice if someone could call and be like hey, sorry I've been busy, but can we re schedule or yeah we still want to do this, but we need to get the location situation taken care of first. Anything would be nice, to at least let us know where we stand. Cuz otherwise we're sitting here waiting not knowing if this is going to happen or if we are just wasting out time waiting for an unsure thing. I know, I always right essays, I'm somewhat of a writer, so pardon my long posts.

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    Default Re: UHH, lost main business account!!!

    Don't wait around for a flakey potential customer, if you have some ready to go right now. Unless you have a contract agreement, then you might be obligated to wait, but they are also obligated to pay.

    There is something satisfying in a twisted kind of way to tell a customer that you would love to have their business, but are just way too busy right now, but can put them on a waiting list.

    Mwahahahahahaha!


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