A Simple Idea That Paid Off

A salesman in a grocery store found himself without a position. Having had some bookkeeping experience, he took a special course in accounting, familiarized himself with all the latest bookkeeping and office equipment and went into business for himself. Starting with a grocer for whom he had formerly worked, he made contracts with more than 100 small merchants to keep their books, at a very nominal monthly fee. His idea was so practical that he soon fount it necessary to set up a portable office in a light delivery truck, which he equipped with modern bookkeeping machinery. He now has a fleet of these bookkeeping office on wheels and employs a large staff of assistants, thus providing small merchants with accounting service equal to the best that money can buy, at a very nominal cost.

Specialized knowledge plus imagination, were the ingredients that went into this unique and successful business. Last year the owner of that business paid and income tax of 10 times as much as was paid by the merchant for whom he worked when the depression force upon him a temporay adversity which proved to be a blessing in disquise.