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Hard Facts about Craft Shows

by Sive Iver

We started with a hobby that we enjoyed and loved to make. Our family and friends then started liking what we did and even bought our products. It was at this time we realized that our hobbies can profit for us.

It may have never crossed our mind that our craft need some advertising. Why should it when your family and friends are around to give you support? What if you decide that you want to earn more? You will then be faced with the fact that to have more sales you will need to market your product.

Another hard fact that we will need to face is that we are not a huge company. We do not have the resources or staff to help us promote our craft. We do not have the college graduate employees and divisions to think of ways to advertise our product.

Unlike big corporations that have huge funds to support their products, we the craft makers must survive without assistance. We will need to develop one basic principle and that is to be self-reliant. We do not only have to make the perfect craft but have to sell our craft.

In promoting our craft one will have to come into terms that we will need to sell a little bit of our individuality. When we promote our craft we do not just put up a fake smile but we will need to be pleasant and accommodating to everyone who will come through our booth.

From the moment we open our booth we have it in our minds that in order to sell our product we must also to be actively involved with our customers. Any negative emotions that we wake up on will have to be dealt with before going to our craft shows.

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Sakes: The Spitting Cobra

by Colin Jones

The species of snake called the spitting cobra is very unusual as it not only has a poisonous bite but it also spits venom into the eyes of its prey and aggressors. Contact of this venom with your eyes is very painful and can even blind you temporarily, therefore, if you get cobra venom in your eyes, irrigate them with water at once in order to prevent permanent tissue damage.

The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is also remarkable in this large family of snakes (elapidae) bexause it feeds almost entirely on other snakes with mice and small birds also falling prey to its poison.

The King Cobra is also unique because of its size – it can reach 5.85m (almost 20 feet) in length, which makes it the longest poisonous snake in the world. The latest discovery of a new species of cobra was made in 2003 when it was identified by London Zoo as part of an illegal shipment of exotic pets.

DNA studies revealed that this new species of snake is similar to the red spitting cobra but has different genes. It seems to originate from an area between Sudan and Egypt and it has been called the ‘Nubian Spitting Cobra’.

Although they are highly dangerous when threatened cobras will rarely attack if you keep your distance from them, although the spit can travel very accurately for two meters. Compared to the strike of a rattlesnake, the cobra is rather slow in its attack and besides that, many bites prove to be non-venomous.

Statistics of a study conducted on Malaysian cobra snake victims indicate that only 55% of the bites involved poison release and the same statistics indicate a mortality rate of only 10% for people bitten, since the poisons injected into the blood of the prey destroy the nerves (neurotoxins), which induces respiratory failure approximately half an hour after being bitten, so you have 30 minutes to seek help.

Their colouration varies from light green-grey to black, althugh juveniles are yellow and black banded.This snake is widespread throughout south-eastern Asia.

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