What type of transfer? Dye sublimation? Or just using heat transfer paper (great for personal use, horrible as a product you sell).
DTG or DTV are good professional options but they require expensive specialized equipment.
Dye sublimation is amazing but only works on polyester.
If you are that lost on income tax, hire a tax professional to do them for you. The Federal tax code is 2600 pages long.
Have a well established routine. Use checklists as needed to ensure things get completed. To tasks in the same order every day to reinforce that routine.
Have someone unfamiliar with the workflow watch others for inefficiency. For example, if the kitchen makes a lot of sandwiches, make sure the most used items are directly in front of you so you don’t have to move to reach the turkey, lettuce, tomato, mayo and cheese.
Everyone has an assigned task but cross train everyone so you can cover absences.
Look for ways one department can save other departments time. I worked at a banquet hall as a waiter and set up staff, but I filled in for dishwashers when they all quit. I discovered that spending an extra 10 minutes in dish world saved us over an hour in setup (rather than putting all the dishes and silver ware away, i spoke with the banquet manager to get guest counts and put the appropriate amount of plates and silverware on a buss cart and placed it in the banquet room 1-2 days before setup. I also pre-treated the silverware which saved the setup crew from having to wipe the water spots off the silverware.
What is your budget? What is the industry? What is the audience (I assume blue jeans wearing guys rather than custom Italian suit guys based on your previous gifts) My wife has a company that has developed custom corporate gifts tailored to a variety of audiences and budgets. She also has connections for promo product companies and can generally underbid any competitors.
Find a Sugar Daddy.
What skills/interests do you have? The concept of Passive income (I can sit back and do nothing and let the money roll in) is really a fallacy. It takes a lot of hard work to establish a successful business and then you can find someone to manage what you have built.
Bowling alleys are expensive which is why they cater to leagues to help pay for the equipment. You are looking at $30-40k/lane for the equipment, you need shoes, kitchen equipment, maintenance equipment for the lanes, the building itself so you are probably looking at $3M just to open in a leased space (more if you purchase/build).
I know it is a regional thing, but for the novelty, you might look at Duckpin bowling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckpin_bowling
look on loopnet.com to get an idea of availability and pricing in your area and then contact a commercial RE Broker to help you find a property and represent you. It will cost you nothing.
Establishing a pop up shop is going to be difficult due to licensing and food safety regulations.
Look at your state and county regulations and talk with someone who is doing what you want to do.
https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/food-licenses-and-permits-in-alabama
https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/shelby/assets/mobilefoodplanreviewpacket.pdf
You aren’t going to find a business loan starting off that doesn’t come with a personal guarantee (second mortgage on your house, personal loan etc)
Our progression was:
Dining room table
Corner of basement
Entire basement
Entire basement and garage
Entire basement, garage and 26’ truck parked in our driveway during busy season
4000sf warehouse
4000sf warehouse and storage units during busy season
15000sf warehouse
The federal government for its employees issues credit hours that is in a separate pot from PTO. You can accrue a maximum of 24 hours of credit hours at a time and it expires within a year of earning it.
If you are traveling there is a separate pot of hours Travel comp time. There is no cap on the number of hours you can earn at a time but it expires 1 year after earning it.
To answer your questions:
Yep. He gets the money and the product.
unless you physically had the card and used chip and PIN, you will likely lose.
You might be able to sue in civil court but you would have to show damages due to the distribution of confidential company information. The legal fees would probably outweigh any damages you could collect.
True to a point. There comes a point where cash doesn’t have as much impact. If you are making $50k/yr, a $15,000 raise is going to have a dramatic impact on your quality of life, but if you’re making $150k/yr, a $15,000 raise, isn’t going to change much.
The first thing to look at is WHY this is happening. Is the time clock difficult to operate? Is it in a convenient location? What is the reaction when staff notify management when they forget to clock in (is it fixed right away or is it met with frustration from management).
If the time clock is easy to use, is properly functioning and is in a convenient location, then start paying based on their punch ins.
It would be difficult to detect unless you regularly had pallets of inventory coming and going all the time.
Sounds like a meal at the restaurant would be horrendously expensive as the overhead would be huge.
What do you do when certain vegetables are not in season? What do you do when all the tomatoes are ready for harvesting at the same time? What do you do when pests or weather destroy your entire crop? What do you do in cold weather when there is no crop?
Any 45W or higher USB-C should work. For the other chargers you have tried, have they been at least 45W?
Are you certain your electrical outlet is working?
Don’t feed the trolls. Respond to negative reviews in a positive manner
Dear Karen, I’m sorry that we failed to meet your expectations. I would like to discuss this further with you. Please contact us at __________ so we can discuss this further and try to make it right.
or
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or
Dear Karen, The feedback you provided is not consistent with the experience we provide our customers. I would like to discuss this further with you. Please contact me at ___________.
By taking the negative discussion offline, you don’t provide more material for potential customers to think you are unhinged like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy’s\_Baking\_Company
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/simplified-option-for-home-office-deduction
Generally speaking, to take advantage of the home office deduction, the space needs to be used exclusively for business. Setting up a desk in a spare bedroom with a bed in it wouldn’t qualify you to claim the entire bedroom, but you could claim the space your desk occupies if the desk wasn’t used for personal use.