Other then word of mouth. How do you advertise used office furniture?
Sorry I missed these posts.
Before my boss passed it was pretty much 100% word of mouth and we had a very large customer base just from that.
Since he passed, I have created a shitty website, but it gets hits and I post shit on Linkedin.
Man, I would love to feed you patron and just listen to your stories.
How did you get out of the hood to where you are now?
Hard fucking work, and wanted to get my kids out of the city.
Was still gangbanging and getting in to a good amount of trouble when my Daughter was born (I was only 17)
My son came along 4yrs later and even though I worked a full time job, was still getting in trouble both with the Police and at home.
Would go on 3 day benders and not come home all weekend, and other dumb shit. Was fucked up one night in the summer and we were going at it with some SGD's who hung at the park on the corner of my house. We would hang on my front porch all summer till 4-5am every weekend. One night they sent a shorty (young kid) to pull a hit on us. We always had guns on us but kept them just inside my front door cause the police would always fuck with us. Well anyway, shorty had us cold, he came up on a bike at like 3am and nobody saw him except me at the last minute. As I looked at him he was pulling a gun from his waist, but froze once I made eye contact with him. I yelled to my guys, shorty got a pistol grab ours. The kid tried riding away and we lit him up and the van that was following him got lit up as well. Kid made it, THANK GOD and we all got locked up. Everyone beat their cases as the SGD's kept it 100 and didnt trick, they never went to court. They started bricking my windows out, tried setting my garage on fire. Friend of mine made some calls and set up a meeting with their Chief. I went and talked to him and explained they are coming at my house with my fucking kids in the house, lets keep this shit on the streets. He agreed and called off the dogs per say.
I made a promise to myself and my Wife after that, that I was fucking done. I was a union driver at the time. That next summer I got the opportunity to work on an overtime union job for a non union company everyday for the duration of the summer. We would work our normal job 7a-3p during the week. Shoot downtown and work from 5p-12a for $35hr cash, then work Sat and Sun for 5-8hrs a day during the day for $50hr cash. Literally took maybe 4-5 days off that whole summer, so worked like a fucking dog for 3 straight months. I banked most of that money (built a bad ass 85 Monte at the same time lol). With all that money we bought a house and closed the week between X Mas and New Years.
It actually surprised the hell out of me to learn how some of these really bad neighborhoods border with nicer neighborhoods. I was in what I thought was a pretty decent area (Irving Park - Addison & Kimball). And just like 2-3 blocks north where Irving Parks meets Albany Park was just a total shitshow. I didn't know about that when I moved there. I only lived in the city for one year, but I couldn't get out fast enough.
When we were looking at houses, we looked in Oak Park briefly, and I couldn't believe the difference one street made where it bordered Austin or Cicero. Said fuck all of that and went more suburbs.
Good old "Kiddie Land" that was one of the Royals neighborhood by Irving and Kimball. I lived in the heart of Albany Park for a long time. Thats where above happened