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Fair Trade Classifieds
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Fair Trade Classifieds

    The Fair Trade Classifieds is a free, open source classifieds paper for the masses, an effort to bring Fair Trade practices into the public view. The Fair Trade Classifieds is a collaborative effort between the Editor, Nathan Guannan Zhang, and many other Vernacular Editors and Printers all over the globe, and soon to be the entire known Human Universe. The Fair Trade Classifieds has three major sections and multitudes of minor sections covering currently sixteen pages of Letter-sized papier mache.
    The Fair Trade Classifieds has three major sections: For Sale, Wanted, and Import-Export Connection. It also has a printer-specific section, in Michigan's case, the "Oakland-Troy" section, because the editor lives near that particular municipal airport.
    It currently costs a flat rate of $ 300.00 USD per page to post an ad in the paper, making it more economical to post lots of ads and less economical for just one ad. A page is defined as the front of one Letter sized chunk of papier mache, as the printing rules state that the classifieds must be printed on hot yellow construction paper papier mache and must be in 14 pt Tahoma font. Individuals are not permitted more than a quarter of a page per page of ads, but there are four pages per section. It is highly economical for the small business, and better yet, multinationals that have fair-trade in mind or want to post ads for small businesses to answer can do so for the same fee it costs the small buisness to post a page of ads.
    With rates this good, who doesn't want to post and ad in or read and buy from the sellers of Fair Trade Classifieds???

To-dos

Major Editorial Chores
  • Set up the paper Wed, 26 Mar 2008
Clientele Addition
  • Get more users
Customer Relationship Management
  • Extend advertisers' rights and create or set up a long-term benefit system so advertisers who check out right and have been committed to fair trade for a long time before advertising in the paper get special benefits, like free pages of ads in certain special-edition papers or the right to manage a blog that uses the name of one of the partner papers THAT I OWN (i.e. Defender Magazine, The WU List, Information Pandemic, etc. etc.)
  • Allow good behaving classifieds users to be able to advertise in a partner paper (MY OWNERSHIP) for free for a month.
  • Set up a rewards system for good behaving classifieds users
Service Termination
  • Get rid of stupid users who abuse their rights and the rights of their workers
Community Management
  • Enact social charter for the mindset and proper social conduct of VEs and Printers
  • Set up rules of engagement for dealing with anti-fair-trade ideologies, legal entities, individuals, religions, and spiritual beings
  • Set up quarantine method for misbehavers
  • Create motivational campaigns, or get someone else with applicable skillset to do so
  • Get more people involved with checking sellers and agents for truthfulness when dealing with the subject of fair trade (i.e. if they say they pay their workers and give them humane working conditions but then keep the money for themselves and treat their workers like slaves, then they lose their rights to advertise for a whole millenium...)
  • By default, punishment lasts for 1000 years
  • Work out a deal with employees of the regulatory agencies of other nations who read this classifieds paper to check up on and investigate incidences of unfair or inhumane treatement of workers employed by advertisers of this paper
  • FORCE WAR ON THE SLAVEMASTERS!!!
Legal Stuff
  • Get a lawyer for the purpose of writing cease and desist (using this classifieds paper because you do not fulfill the guidelines) letters Wed, 16 Apr 2008
  • Incorporate the papers as "Defender Magazine Corporation" or something like that, to better control trademark issues… Wed, 9 Apr 2008
Partnerships
  • Set up a strategic alliance with the OCC Student LIFE newspaper Wed, 2 Apr 2008
  • Set up a strategic alliance with the Oakland Post (OU Student Newspaper) via one of my OU friends Sat, 3 May 2008
  • Set up a strategic alliance with the Detroit Free Press via a publicity exposure or an event Fri, 4 Jul 2008
Appointments


Completed...
Wed, 26 Mar
Meet with God concerning this paper and get Him to put in his two cents so it can succeed, along with the Fair Trade movement. Selah! @ 10:10 AM

Notes

Memo to the Editor (by the Editor) Sun, 23 Mar 2008

When this paper makes money, use the proceeds to start a company to hold it, pay off the old computer debt, and get a Linux computer so I don't have to deal with dumb butt Vista…