If you'd like to keep your money in the local community, consider using a service that allows you sell to people near you.
We can sell our scores digitally using services like Lulu or Lightning Source (both of which I have used for years) and we can sell our music on a plethora of sites using a service like Tunecore.
Enterprises such as Off.Grid:Electric are using a service-based model and selling pay-as-you-go solar that can be paid for daily using mobile money, akin to setting up a micro-utility.
Users will need to buy service bundles to use the service — sold in minutes, days, weeks or months of use.
Amazon, for one, now offers a service selling used goods alongside its expanding list of new products.
But what made this occasion different and ethically problematic was the fact that this fundraising dinner honored Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia for their decades of service, sold sponsorships and tickets using their names, and gave them a principal speaking role.
Ms. Oates, whose company is dbO Home, created a bread-and-butter plate, a platter, a votive candleholder and a vase that are used in service and sold in the gift shop.
He bet that arena owners and promoters would sign up in droves if they were offered a percentage of every ticket that was sold using a "convenience" or "service" charge, and he was right.
Some services, such as CD Baby, will allow you to purchase a unique bar code for your album even without using their service to sell your music.
ABN is one of a handful of banks to offer such a system globally - its key rivals are HSBC and Citigroup - and RBS executives are excited by the prospect of keeping more of their own clients' cash management business and of using the service to sell its own range of treasury products across the globe.
