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Trials & Tribulations - The drama of running a business and of life. It's not as easy as it looks. Running a business is full of drama. Customers, employees, money, family, time. You name it, it's a problem. Share with us your drama and how you handled it.

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Trials & Tribulations - The drama of running a business and of life.

It's not as easy as it looks. Running a business is full of drama. Customers, employees, money, family, time. You name it, it's a problem. Share with us your drama and how you handled it.
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thinking back to my childhood. I woulld rig a explosives around the perimeter of your entire yard and anyone after dark and until 8am would get paintballed with permanent red ink blown up all over them or maybe tarred and feathered lmao. but on a legal note. get a security camera and/or motion sensors so if anything larger than say large dog approaches your truck, bright halogen lights come on, camera records and a loud speaker comes on saying "INTRUDER! INTRUDER! STAY WHERE YOU ARE OR WOULD WILL BE SHOT!!!" OK MAYBE NOT THE SHOT PART BUT SOMETHING TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THEM SIMILIAR TO A BUGULAR ALARM in a house.

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thinking back to my childhood. I woulld rig a explosives around the perimeter of your entire yard and anyone after dark and until 8am would get paintballed with permanent red ink blown up all over them or maybe tarred and feathered lmao. but on a legal note. get a security camera and/or motion sensors so if anything larger than say large dog approaches your truck, bright halogen lights come on, camera records and a loud speaker comes on saying "INTRUDER! INTRUDER! STAY WHERE YOU ARE OR WOULD WILL BE SHOT!!!" OK MAYBE NOT THE SHOT PART BUT SOMETHING TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THEM SIMILIAR TO A BUGULAR ALARM in a house.

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What i am looking for, is a "Sensor" kind of thing. I would like to be able to put a sensor on the trailer and mount it near the window of my bedroom, if someone attempts to pull the trailer; say more than 5feet from where its sitting, it will sound, the truck is getting an alarm installed soonly.

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http://daytonagazette.com/not-a-warm...-daytona-beach

The story is there.

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I left a reply there. Hey free advertising for you.....
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HA! awesome, you and Artie are awesome. THANKS!

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Matt,

That is fantastic! Give us the low down on how you got them to write the article about you.

Also have you noticed an uptick yet in calls from the article?
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I havent received any emails or anything from the story yet, i dont think i will. But, gets me out in front of the people that read these articles. Which could evolve into something sooner or later! I hope?

I emailed the editor of the paper, which turns out to be the only one writing articles for the paper at this moment. He wants to start doing some networking and i might start writing an article for him in the near future.

WE SHALL SEE!

I appreciate all the comments on the article gents!

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Oh that is great! What kinds of topics would you like to write articles on?

Also, do you know if your article made it to their print version or was this just online?
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