{"id":3169,"date":"2014-02-01T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T21:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2014-03-09T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:57:36","slug":"little-fish-big-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"Little Fish &#8211; Big Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/general-blog\/great-white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"great-white\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/general-blog\/great-white.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I intend to expand my E-Commerce business, The Hobbyist Machine Store .\u00a0 It has been in operation selling small machine tools since 2007 and I have enjoyed a small return in profits for the time spent.\u00a0 I decided it is time to take operation up a gear or two and become a more serious player with small CNC hobby type machines. I am not getting any younger and I need to stay with what I know.<\/p>\n<p>I considered manufacturing my own products and accessories and I have built several prototypes. I then realized that the product liability, initial capital investment and cost of a product promotion effort to generate sales <i>of an new unknown brand<\/i> are far more difficult than I wish to endure <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at this point<\/span> in my business career. It is not a fresh new market with no product brand name leaders. I don\u2019t want to figuratively visit the Shark Tank begging for funding with a bad business plan. I have a few accessories that compliment rather than compete with the brand name players.<\/p>\n<p>So if I can\u2019t beat them, there may be an opportunity to join them and turn my experience into value and still work for myself\u2026 and swim with the little fishies. Is it safe to go into the water? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I intend to expand my E-Commerce business, The Hobbyist Machine Store .\u00a0 It has been in operation selling small machine tools since 2007 and I have enjoyed a small return in profits for the time spent.\u00a0 I decided it is time to take operation up a gear or two and become a more serious player with small CNC hobby type machines. I am not getting any younger and I need to stay with what I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thmstore","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}