Education in the United States

Our organization for cut tools education was not for profit, but it was soon becoming evident that there might be a money making opportunity in it. We decided to work at it for a year as a not for profit, and then decide if we wanted to go forward as a for profit organization. We would monitor who shows up and then try to decided it there is a big enough market to make it happen. This was put on hold for the time being. Our method of operation was to go to libraries and ask them if they wanted to put on a learning seminar and feature some self help books. We generally got a good response, but there were a few times when we didn't. We just moved on to the next city and library. We also made sure we found the independent hardware store in town and talked with them. This way we could have an automatic anchor in the community. We had at least five of these going at once, and it made for a busy week. While we weren't making a profit on these, of course, we were taking our expenses and a small stipend. Several hardware stores offered to give us a small cut on what was sold, if we would offer a coupon. We decided that would be conflict of interest.