Steve’s New Business

November 30th, 2006

Good luck, Steve! Sounds great:

I’m excited to announce that my wife and I just purchased a business. It’s a two-year old start-up company which serves as a dealer/retailer of “green” building supplies and products, chiefly Safecoat’s leading-brand non-toxic paints and cleaning products, that newly hip recycled cotton “blue-jean” insulation, a great recycled roofing-shingles product, and a range of renewable and organic flooring materials. Plus we can also offer a full line of solar equipment through an affiliation with AEE Solar in California. The former owners were extremely conscientious people, so everything we sell is as green as possible (not just greenwashed) and as locally produced as possible.

In fact the previous owners really only started it up because they were looking for a way to pay the bills while searching for their dream-land to become farmer/homesteaders on. When they finally found that, their job began to get in the way of their life, and they started spending less and less time at the shop. The community hated that they were rarely open. And yet they still managed to gross close to $100,000 in sales during the recent 12-month period–while spending maybe 5 hours a week at the business. Also, advertising has been all but non-existant.

They finally came to realize that they needed to shit or get off the pot, so they started shopping for a buyer, and long story short, I’m it.

2 Responses to “Steve’s New Business”

  1. George Kenney says:

    Hey Kevin, what are your thoughts on the business of selling energy logs for home heating?

    Is this just another way to warming up our stucco box titanics and we need new dwellings?

    http://www.northidahoenergylogs.com/environment.htm

    No fossil fuel, can transport on trains, renewable energy source, low emissions, and 50% of home energy usage is for heating!

    http://www.pacificpud.org/energy1.gif

    Not looking for financial advice, just your normal pithy blast of reality. 😉

  2. Kevin says:

    Hi George,

    It looks like an interesting product. They indicate that the logs work so well because of the low moisture content.

    I thought, “How do they get the moisture out of the wood?”

    “Propane or Natural Gas” is the answer, according to this page: http://www.northidahoenergylogs.com/equipment.htm

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