Opportunity Knocking. Required assets: You'd need to be hard and commited.
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Opportunity Knocking. Required assets: You'd need to be hard and commited.
I thought since this forum has many youngbloods of the 20-something set and some looking for where they're going to go and make something of themselves I'd post about this here. Since this SS/FG foum has all the messenger talk due to the fixeds and all.
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I need a boss in Alaska (long winded)
Or a partner. At the age of forty and after nine years
of doing the Indy courier thing I've gotten totally
burnt-out on sales and marketing. Now finding a boss
would involve working with one of our existing courier
services, not likely. I could go into detail but trust
me not likely. So the partner option has the most
appeal. The ideal person would already be up here,
know how to ride our winter wonderland and have some
messenger experience. I haven't found that person yet
and should I fail in that I have one other option;
entice one of you with dreams of the last frontier to
make the big move. I can't promise you much but
possible use of a guest room until you get settled
(Must have references and we expect some contribution
towards food, beer and other provisions. must like
cats and not have a problem with meat eating as your
window will be under the BBQ), a few solid clients
(I'm losing many to death and retirement but one firm
has plenty of life in it.), tons of under exploited
contacts and one hardcore
year-round-snow-ice-don't-mean-****-rider (that's my
favorite part, the actual work). Towards those ends
I'm squeezing one more marketing turd out my ass to
make the buy-out or thing partner thing more viable.
The other thing I'm doing is posting a in our new
forum. "A Bike Messengers Guide to Anchorage" This
should be both a supplement to this handbook we're
working on and a travel guide from a more bike
messenger perspective (Whatever that means? I like to
think it'll be helpful if you're here either to work or
have a good time if you come here). My way of both
saying thanks to those messengers who've made me feel
welcome in the cities I've visited and to have the
information there in case I hang up my spurs sooner
then I'd like.
Kirk in Ak
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Be one of the only 2 messengers in Anchorage eh? Now that'd be some bragging rights I think. If I were ten years younger and untethered I'd have jumped all over this. Kirk says right there he doesn't care much for the marketing aspect of it but he's managed okay. Take some of that internet-savvy, overly marketed to all your life 20-something stuff up north and you could do all right, expand your market even. Live well and prosper.
[clippy]
I need a boss in Alaska (long winded)
Or a partner. At the age of forty and after nine years
of doing the Indy courier thing I've gotten totally
burnt-out on sales and marketing. Now finding a boss
would involve working with one of our existing courier
services, not likely. I could go into detail but trust
me not likely. So the partner option has the most
appeal. The ideal person would already be up here,
know how to ride our winter wonderland and have some
messenger experience. I haven't found that person yet
and should I fail in that I have one other option;
entice one of you with dreams of the last frontier to
make the big move. I can't promise you much but
possible use of a guest room until you get settled
(Must have references and we expect some contribution
towards food, beer and other provisions. must like
cats and not have a problem with meat eating as your
window will be under the BBQ), a few solid clients
(I'm losing many to death and retirement but one firm
has plenty of life in it.), tons of under exploited
contacts and one hardcore
year-round-snow-ice-don't-mean-****-rider (that's my
favorite part, the actual work). Towards those ends
I'm squeezing one more marketing turd out my ass to
make the buy-out or thing partner thing more viable.
The other thing I'm doing is posting a in our new
forum. "A Bike Messengers Guide to Anchorage" This
should be both a supplement to this handbook we're
working on and a travel guide from a more bike
messenger perspective (Whatever that means? I like to
think it'll be helpful if you're here either to work or
have a good time if you come here). My way of both
saying thanks to those messengers who've made me feel
welcome in the cities I've visited and to have the
information there in case I hang up my spurs sooner
then I'd like.
Kirk in Ak
[/clippy]
Be one of the only 2 messengers in Anchorage eh? Now that'd be some bragging rights I think. If I were ten years younger and untethered I'd have jumped all over this. Kirk says right there he doesn't care much for the marketing aspect of it but he's managed okay. Take some of that internet-savvy, overly marketed to all your life 20-something stuff up north and you could do all right, expand your market even. Live well and prosper.
