Insider Insights: what they know and we don’t


Often we don’t have to reinvent the wheel to learn something new – we can just ask experts in the field who can draw on their experience to enlighten us. Below, we’ve shared insights insiders from various industries have shared with us.

Almost all sales people in solar are independent contractors. It is much more similar to the way real estate agents operate than the traditional retail sales model. Read More>>

The American tattoo industry is having an absolute existential crisis over “the right way to tattoo”, or “what makes a *real* tattooer”. To the everyday layman, tattooing may appear to be a simple, formulaic art career. But behind closed doors, it is a tumultuous, dramatic hellscape heavily regulated by not the government, but the old school traditional values and set of rules it was founded on. While modern tattooing is desperately aspiring to achieve “fine art” status, it will never reach this goal if it isn’t allowed to shed its rigid, outdated confounds and allow itself to evolve. Read More>>

Everyday we have new customers & donors come in. They are unaware that we exist and how we operate. Read More>>

Not all horses need to wear metal shoes! Read More>>

For the first year or so of competing in the Miss America Organization, I didn’t consider myself a “pageant girl.” I was certainly a girl who did pageants, but I hesitated to use that label because of the negative connotations it carries for some people. Read More>>
