I wholesaled merchandise in the 1990's and needed to know a ton more about my product than my reseller clients. 

One of my best friends went to an out of state school for a merchandising degree.  10 years later she works at Dell as a consultant and still has $50k in student debt. 

The company I work for gets there merchandise from Shanghai, China!

Doing so, you could then also split the "FT" off on its own for some things like Letterhead or T-shirts/merchandise where you don't need the full name but just want some cohesive branding. 

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Having that experience trying to sell merchandise that way, I have strayed away from it.I hear a guy named Adam Ginsberg is the "guru" for that, but I haven't gotten the program yet.

Surely you don't think Bush and Co. are going to take up for anyone who's hassling the folks who provide a HUGE CHUNK of merchandise to Wal-Mart (huge Bush supporters), which helps keep our inflation rate down, while at the same time purchasing AN EVEN BIGGER AMOUNT of our debt, which allows us to continue on this drunken spending spree that's been going on for the past five years.

Hi Matt -- I work at the Merchandise Mart downtown, so if you'll be downtown I'd love to meet.

In this case, no one wants the merchandise (Except perhaps for Erin's suiters).BTW, here's a door opener line that you will NOT be using:"Hi, I just happened to be in the neighborhood..."

Nick,If you've ever checked out cafepress.com, they let you upload a logo/graphic/whatever and put it on pretty much any merchandise you want and sell it.