Board Feet Is the Easy Part
Board Feet Is the Easy Part Thickness times width times length, divided by 144. Anyone can do that. What sends people home from the lumber yard with the…
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A 36-Inch Walnut Top Moves Over Half an Inch Across a Normal Year
A 36-Inch Walnut Top Moves Over Half an Inch Across a Normal Year Not a hair. Not a sixteenth. And if you glue something rigid across it, the top will…
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The Four Months That Pay Almost Nothing
The Four Months That Pay Almost Nothing Grass stops growing. The van payment, the insurance and the phone bill carry on exactly as before. There are only…
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You’re Not Paid to Mow. You’re Paid for a Day.
You’re Not Paid to Mow. You’re Paid for a Day. Ask anyone on a mowing route what they charge an hour and they’ll tell you seventy. On site, they’re right…
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The Sourcing Spot That Feels Like a Winner and Loses Money
The Sourcing Spot That Feels Like a Winner and Loses Money You remember the incredible find. You don’t remember the eleven trips that produced nothing, or…
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Sold for $68. Paid $6. You Made $42.49.
Sold for $68. Paid $6. You Made $42.49. Every reseller does the same sum — sale price minus what you paid. The gap between that number and the real one…
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You Know the Number. You Don’t Know the Date.
You Know the Number. You Don’t Know the Date. You’ve added it up at 2am more than once. What you’ve never had is the only figure that actually helps: when…
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Margin Can Lie to You. Profit Per Hour Can’t.
Margin Can Lie to You. Profit Per Hour Can’t. A 40% margin sounds healthy — and can still pay you less than minimum wage if the product takes long…
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Your Best-Paying Genre Probably Isn’t the One You Think
Your Best-Paying Genre Probably Isn’t the One You Think Weddings bring the biggest single fees in most photographers’ businesses — and frequently the…
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You Priced the Shoot. Did You Price the Editing?
You Priced the Shoot. Did You Price the Editing? The wedding paid $2,400. It also took 118 hours. Here’s the arithmetic almost no photographer does —…
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