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How to Open a Stationery Store

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by Katie Rosehill, Demand Media A stationery can be a profitable business. Step   1 Papers and pens, gift wrap and ribbons, cards and notes are all part of what you find in a stationery store. Add invitations, books, gifts and magazines and your store is stocked. Opening a stationery store takes planning, preparation and research. You don't have to be located in a huge shopping mall, but your store does have to have visibility to your potential customers. The founder of the William Ernst Brown brand grew his tiny 400-square-foot stationery store into a nationally recognized brand, according to Arlene R. Barro, the author of "Win Without Competing." Research the competition. While you might be the only stationery store in the shopping mall or strip shopping center, you may not be the only store carrying stationery, cards, pens, pencils and such. Review the types of cards the other stores carry and offer your customers something a little diffe...

Half Man

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The Story of Peng Shuilin In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don’t have. Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say,”I want to be slim.” Skinny people say,”I want to be fatter.” Poor people want to be rich and rich are never satisfied with what they have. PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province, China. In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half. His lower body and legs were beyond repair. Surgeons sewed up his torso. Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ or system inside his body. Peng kept exercising his arms, building up strength, washing his face and brushing his teeth. He Survived against all odds. Now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again after a decade. Considering Peng’s plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Rese...