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December 7, 2007
An Internet Business "Tumbles" In
National Public Radio has the story of Linda Katz, a southwest Kansas resident who, in an effort to learn web page design, created a fictitious Internet company website, "Prairie Tumbleweed Farms". The site started generated real life orders, however, and Ms. Katz started a real life business with the tagline, "it they don't tumble, we don't sell them." She sells small tumbleweeds for $15 and large ones cost $25. She's received orders for Hollywood movie sets, and NASA purchased some in order to test the Mars land rover. The business is now 13 years old and generates about $40,000 a year.
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