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Good idea! & thanks for the advice.
You see, it is like a lot of "Mom & Pop" shops out here. These are my clients...from dry cleaners to car washes to auto repair centers to clothes boutiques, to record/video stores, to restaurants to pet stores to computer repair centers, etc.
SMALL BUSINESSES
And my marketing tool is my "beat-everybody-in-the industry" prices. So, you see, if I start charging all of the fees, I will lose my clients to the competition...or worse--->they will just try to do the shit on their own.
I was targeting large contracts with the city and county (& surrounding areas). But I found out really quickly that this area is very "clique-y". If you are not part of the clique, then you will not win the contract. I messed around actually was awarded one contract, had it for a minute and the shit was stolen right from under my eyes. & the establishment that won, I have their pricing BEAT! Makes you say hmmmm. Anyway, I am in a battle with that shit right now.
Wellllll, after this tax season....I am seriously thinking of changing the game. SERIOUSLY. Just like I do not want to be a player NO MO', I do not want to be nobody's flunky azz accountant NO MO' either!
Owning your own operation is HELL & I am NOT trying to be a slave for some corporation either! I do not know what I am going to do...but I am going to figure something out. Some of my friends say I should go into professional BIG GIRL modeling, some say I should open up my own clothing store (since I am 2 flyyyy ;p ). I have kicked around the idea of opening up a jazz supper club - as on the westside of LA - believe it or not - the brown folks do not really have a laid back spot you can come to just to let your hair down....I am trying to think of an angle that will have them flocking up in my spot......Anyway, I am just dreaming. I will probably be doing folks taxes and their payrolls 'till the day I leave this place. I am just tired, that is all.