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Part 2: Job Loss Stop Your Mind Fuck!! Start That Business Today! This is the most sure-fire way to maintain your finances if you lose your job or are forced into retirement. · Maintaining Your Badassness!

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  . . It's time for you to elevate. Stop procrastinating
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  and start that business you've been thinking
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  about for years. Just take the leap. Don't sit
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  on inside of your bed. Don't sit on your couch
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  fantasizing anymore. What if what if you keep
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  going through the steps in your mind? Stop your
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  mind fuck And get into action This is how you
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  can create a business for less than a hundred
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  dollars. Let's get into it Number one, think
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  of a business idea which aligns with your hobbies,
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  something you enjoy doing, and something that
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  is needed. Now you can think of a business idea
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  that's already out there, but you need to elevate
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  it. Because if it's already out there, there
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  are more, even plenty, businesses that are doing
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  the same thing. You need to elevate it to make
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  your business Stand out. Choosing a low cost
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  business idea is free. This doesn't cost you
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  any money, but time. Because you don't need money
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  to brainstorm, only time and strategy. If you
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  like to teach, you can tutor. Think of an area
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  you're good at, you excel in, and people come
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  to you for advice. Consider consulting. If you're
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  creative, think of content creation. If you like
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  to sew, become a seamstress. Like I did when
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  I retired. Three months later, I opened my office
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  and did my tailoring, altering, and custom clothes
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  making full time. If you like to draw, you can
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  become an artist. Become a paid artist. Like,
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  you are spending all money. You like pets? You
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  love pets? Consider pet sitting. Do you have
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  a backyard that is big enough for maybe four
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  or five dogs? Do you have an inside enclosed
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  area for cats? That'd be perfect for pet sitting.
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  Do you love kids? Maybe you want to become a
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  teacher, but you also can become a childcare
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  operator. There are many businesses and you have
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  many opportunities to make money around you.
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  You like selling you have old shoes sitting around
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  Nike's you can convert into your own style Go
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  to the thrift store pick up some shoes for 99
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  cents make sure they're clean and then paint
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  them That's step one Step two Now this is a step
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  I skip Until Maybe somewhere in the middle create
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  a simple business plan Because when I started
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  I just jumped on eBay in 2005 and start selling
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  as a hobby but when I started making enough money
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  that required me to get a business license and
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  sell taxes. That's when I created my business
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  plan. So, create a business plan. Something like
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  defining your services or your product. to consumers.
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  This is a simple outline that will help you start
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  your business plan. What problem are you going
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  to solve? What makes your business different
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  from other similar businesses? Who or what will
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  you serve? What makes your business different?
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  And think of your first five paying customers.
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  It can be your family, friends, even strangers.
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  I find that strangers will support you quicker
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  than family and some friends. You can find business
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  plan templates at some office stores and definitely
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  online Pick a Business name I Would pick a business
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  name before I start my business plan that should
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  be the first two things you do Either one Choose
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  the business idea and then choose your name and
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  then write your business plan if needed at that
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  time If you have trouble think of business names
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  that's AI Then You can check the county clerk's
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  office, your county, or if you're ready to register
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  your business name, go to the state, get the
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  required paperwork, and register your business
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  name. And you can often do this online. If you
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  have a small business office in your area, most
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  states have at least one and most cities have
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  one. So look up SBA .gov and find one in your
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  area that you can go to or you may want to call
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  first because You might be able to solve some
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  problems over the phone first Now here's where
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  you would start paying money After you Choose
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  your business name Register it with the county
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  and state And then start building your online
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  store social media accounts whatever Then you
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  would pay maybe $19 $20 for domain name a year
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  If you get your own website You pay probably
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  Maybe ten twelve dollars for hosting You don't
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  even have to Get your own domain name right now
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  you can use sites such as wix .com It is time
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  for our commercial break. We will be back shortly.
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  twenty cent to list of course they take fees
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  when you sell your product GoDaddy they charge
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  for domain names and you can often build your
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  own store you don't have to hire anybody to build
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  your store because most Companies have a simple
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  template to start building your store. TikTok
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  is free, Facebook, Instagram, Google Business.
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  What are those? There's so many websites out
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  there, social media sites, you can log on to.
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  I'm thinking Snap. What is Snap? I don't know.
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  But you know. You know what social media sites
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  you can log on to. If not, just Google it. You
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  can even sign up with Canva. They have a free
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  plan. Canva. Who else am I thinking? It'll come
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  to me in a minute Think of a logo to match your
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  business name and your business concept Logos
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  will attract people more often did not have that
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  logo because usually from your logo people can
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  guess what you're selling if you don't have a
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  tagline. Like I said, your family, friends, coworkers
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  can support you and you can start selling immediately
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  with those people who are around you. even if
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  you have a farmers market in your town you can
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  sell anything at the farmers market homemade
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  pies homemade cookies you have a garden in your
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  yard pick fruits and vegetables and start selling
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  those at the farmers market Market yourself for
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  free using social media Your groups you belong
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  to on Facebook word -of -mouth Flyers you can
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  print flyers at home. I've done this for years
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  flyers Before social media came about where the
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  thing oh my goodness threefold fires I Remember
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  doing that on my Canon software that was so fun
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  back in the 90s and Late 80s You can Contact
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  some community organizations around you and you
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  can advertise in there if your target is college
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  students like You love updating resumes. You
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  can start a business, a resume business. Look
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  up the local college newspapers and advertise
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  in there. That's free. And if you're doing this
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  with $100 or less, Only buy things that are necessary.
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  You don't need to go out and buy a new laptop,
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  a new phone, new microphone, whatever. If you're
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  podcasting, you don't need a microphone. You
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  can use your computer's microphone on your phone's
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  microphone. And later on down the line, for aesthetics,
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  get a microphone that you like. Microphone. does
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  make hosting and podcasting more believable or
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  more attractive. But you don't need to go out
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  and buy new stuff right away. And when you earn
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  your money, reinvest it. of course go out and
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  buy you something to celebrate your first dollar
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  you earned but reinvest most of those earnings
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  into better tools a simple website that you can
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  build on your own wix .com you don't have to
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  pay for the simple website let me see then you
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  can start paying for ads and you can get better
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  coverage I think Craigslist lets you advertise
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  for $3 something like that and If you're giving
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  something out, if you're not soliciting for anything,
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  you can advertise free in some sections of Craigslist.
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  Business cards. You can print your own business
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  cards. You have a computer. Go to word and in
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  the templates type in business cards template
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  will pop up go to Staples Walmart get some heavy
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  cardstock paper And print your business cards
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  Yeah, Avery software Avery The Avery site will
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  help align your business cards, but you can do
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  it without Avery. You can do it on Word. You
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  don't even have to have the business card template.
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  I've done this many times. Just line it up as
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  big as you want your business cards. Copy that
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  first card throughout the paper. Probably get
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  six on the paper. And print. I'm going back to
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  some examples of businesses. You can start for
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  under $100 or free. Pet sitting or dog walking.
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  If you like home care, you can... Become a senior
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  home companion You can Clean out people's gutters
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  for free You can mow the lawn for Not for free
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  not let me take that back You can start a gutter
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  cleaning business for free a lawn mower business
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  Just with a lawn mower You can tutor for free
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  like most students already have books already
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  have pencils and paper you can even tutor online
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  with teens or with zoom or even on your iPhone
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  like what's it called when you look at the face
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  But you know what feature I'm talking about.
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  It's like 3 30 in the morning and I'm trying
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  to think but you know, I'm talking about You
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  can have you can do bookkeeping that's that's
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  free to start You can use you can do If you have
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  a truck, you can start your clean out business
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  or moving business, small items, until you raise
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  enough capital to get a bigger truck. So these
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  are some of the things you can use, some of the
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  tools you can use to start a business tomorrow.
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  And one point. You can start a business without
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  a license Just so long as you apply for a license
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  as soon as possible And there you have it Tune
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  in for part three of Maintaining your income
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  if all of a sudden you get terminated or if you
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  have the option to retire early. Let me know
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  if you have any questions, comments or if you
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  would like for me to cover a certain topic on
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  starting a business for under $100. In the meantime,
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  go get your bag because it's about to be ready
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  soon.