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Make 2009 The Best Year Ever For Your Bead And Jewelry Venture: When business is good, it can usually be attributed to the rules and principles you live by. This was definitely the case for Thomas Jefferson, the principal<\/span> author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and 3rd President of the United States of America (1801-1809).<\/span><\/p>\n I thought that since a lot of us are crafting new years resolutions<\/a> for our home jewelry businesses, or just for personal reasons, it may be helpful to post the rules that Jefferson lived by. They seemed to have worked well for him, so perhaps we can employ them too. Thomas Jefferson’s Rules For Living:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps if more people had heeded this advice over the last few years, this current recession would not even be an issue. But it is… so let’s make the best of it.<\/span><\/p>\n For some ideas on what you can do as a polymer clay bead maker and home jewelry business owner to better your future, read these articles:<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s to a bright and stable 2009!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Make 2009 The Best Year Ever For Your Bead And Jewelry Venture: When business is good, it can usually be attributed to the… 7<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2769,1067],"tags":[2647,1478],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-show-tell","category-selling","tag-marketing-selling","tag-new-years-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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