While displaying at a craft fair, a representative of a mail order catalog company wants to put your product in the catalog. It will pay you $40 and mark the product up to $55 for the catalog. It estimates that your market share could be substantial and should be dependent only on your production output. You decide to quit your real job and devote all your time to making wreaths, but you want to match your current $50,000 salary. You really don’t want to work more than 40 hours per week in actual wreath manufacturing (assume all paperwork, material purchasing, and such takes place beyond those 40 hours). You want four weeks a year for vacation, holidays, and sick days or personal days. Taking into consideration time constraints, the price you will get from the catalog company, and your revised costs, does this make sense?
