How do I start my own ear staples business?
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what the heck are ear staples?
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Where are you, what are you stuck on?\nHave you found a location, a space?\nHave you priced equipment, like the chairs people sit in to get their hair done and mirrors and shelves for the beauty store?\nI would start with finding a suitable space and renting or buying it. \nThen fill it up with the stuff you need (might have to remodel the space first) then hire the staff and open.
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Begin by paying attention to your skills and aptitudes.  Is there a market for what are naturally good at? Can you identify a need or a problem in your area or within a group that your skills solve?\n\nThen you need to take a few business courses.  Look for adult education courses.  I took an Entrepreneurial Assistance Course through a local continuing education program.\n\nYou need to learn about marketing, basic forms of business - sole proprietorship, LLC, Corporation - you need to know something about basic accounting and record keeping, you need to know that no matter how marvelous your idea is and no matter how many people are lined up at your door for your service or product - it will take you a minimum of 3 years to make a profit.\n\nYou will have many start-up costs - equipment, phone, advertising, letterhead, website, transportation, classes, trade magazines.  You may need the services of an accountant.  If you decide to incorporate, you may need legal services.\n\nVisit your local Chamber of Commerce.  Many chambers are affiliated with SCORE - which is a group a retired business executives who give advice for cheap or free. Many chambers also offer cheap or free seminars to members to educate them about local business practices.\n\nYou may also need to register your business with your town or county.  If you are planning to put a sign out advertising your home business, you need to check with your town about the laws regarding business signs in residential areas.\n\nYou may also want to contact the Small Business Association.  In many areas, they have micro loan programs to encourage minority and women-owned businesses to get off the ground.\n\nBeyond that, working from home has several challenges.  You need to be able to work alone, you need a dedicated work space and a separate phone line. You'll need a place to keep your inventory and your business records.  If you have children or pets, you need to be where their sounds or noises do not interfere with your business.\n\nIf you are working at something that involves customers coming to your home office, you need to learn about having the appropriate insurance coverage.\n\nSole proprietor businesses are at particular risk, because your personal assets are fair game if someone files a lawsuit against you.\n\nThe best way to start a work from home business is to educate yourself.  Do not be in a rush.  If you need to make money sooner than later, work at a wage job, and start your home business part time, so you have cash flow while building your business.
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Fist thing would be to find a city, or mall that will allow you to open a such business.... Then I guess it would be order a bunch of products and open up... making sure that you only sell to people that are the appropriate age.... Police like to send under age people in stores like that...\n\nGood Luck
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Here is an idea that you can try:\n\nActually you could be your own Music Store/Album Label.\n\nGet yourself a website (I do design them by the way) and then host music from your local bands in the area.  Let the PEOPLE decide who is good, not some hollywood executive.\n\nThen let it grow!\n\nHolla!
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The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.\n\nI recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* How to Start & Manage a Convenience Food Store Business by Jerre G. Lewis\n* Start and Run a Profitable Retail Business by Jim Dion, Ted Topping\n* Retail Business Kit for Dummies by Rick Segel \n* Specialty Shop Retailing: How to Run Your Own Store Revised by Carol L. Schroeder\n* So You Want To Own The Store: Secrets to Running a Successful Retail Operation by Mort Brown\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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The music business is all about connections.  Get your name out there!!  The internet is a great way to get started (maybe get a podcast to play your demo) because you can get feedback from your audience.  Definitely create a website to promote yourself, so when you hand your business card to someone they have all the information they could ever want about you (and your career aspirations) at their fingertips.  You want it to be as easy as possible for people to look at, review, and make judgments about your talents.\n\nThe next step would be to begin making person to person connections with people.  This part is hard work and it can be easily draining. . . stick with it!  The best way is to start locally and move outward.  Start performing in local restaurants, clubs, or at large parties.  Through meeting people you can create a network through which you can map your way up to a record company.  If you're in a larger city, find out if there are any indy music stores. . . those are really good resources to get to know other up & coming musicians and great places to promote your name.\n\nGood luck with everything!!  The more exposure people have to you, the more likely you will have someone important hear your music, and the more likely you could be signed!!
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are you sure you want to? you do know that you can't make any money off of that and its a struggle to just break even, right? i guess you just wanna do it to support your local scene and that is a noble cause. first you need to find a location. then get the phone #'s of the distributors of the brands that you would like to carry. buy all that sh*t wholesale, set it up in your shop and sell it for profit. it's pretty much how any business is run accept its more part of a community that you don't wanna p#ss off (cause if you do, skaters will retaliate) and it helps your local scene immensely. it also means that as the owner of said shop, you will have acess to all product in your shop at all times but don't be surprised if you find yourself living the ramen life
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Try finding a niche market that nobody else has cornered yet.  The best way to do this is to come up with imiginative new products that you have easy access to.  Ifd you already have good feedback then let me know I I will be happy to make a deal with about supplying such items.
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I work at setting up small businesses, and I need to let you know that what your listed (inventory, wholesales, etc) are not the things you need to do first. \n\nFirst, you need to come up with a business name and open up a business entity. This will tell the government that you're opening a business, make you legal, guarantee that no one else can have your name, and give you an EIN/tax number. \n\nOnce you've done that, go open a bank account under the name of your business. Once of the biggest mistakes small business owners do is to use their personal money to start the business. Open the bank account, get a business credit card, and a business loan. (You will probably need a business plan to qualify for the loan.) \n\nOnce that is all done, find out the specifics of where you'll get your supplies from.
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Not to be a jerk or anything but if you are running a home business don't you think you should be getting up as early as 7:00am anyways?\n\nYou could always plug your ears with ear plugs when you go to sleep, coupled by playing some soft music it may actually help dround out the noise.\n\nAbout disturbing your business you may want to contact the city to see what options they may be able to suggest.
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Hi there,\nCreate your own 'portable' business.\n\nhttp://webmaster-directory.first411.com\n\nis a great resource.\n\nMore Power to You!
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Hi, I have no experience with this but I've found two sites that may help in starting up your business.\n\nGood luck!
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Try radio, local schools talk to music teachers about maybe hanging flyers around the school.  If your business is downtown try something unusual as maybe some previous students showing their talents outside your studio advertising the biz
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There is a phenomenal company called Oxyfresh that is the perfect opportunity for those wanting to:\n\n1. Be your own boss\n2. Set your own hours\n3. Receive all the benefits of owning a small business\n4. Receive NONE of the headaches of owning a small business\n5. Start earning capital almost immediately\n6. Receive a RESIDUAL INCOME for life\n\nIt has an extremely low start-up and they also will set up your web site and email. It has an excellent product line that is constantly growing and it has been around for more than 20 years with an unbelievable leadership.\n\nOxyfresh's compensation plan makes it easy for its Distributors to live a much fulfilled lifestyle and have lots of free time to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Distributors don't spend every waking hour trying to recruit other Distributors.\n\nCheck it out: www.oxyfreshww.com/OxyMike\n\nGood Luck! :)
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First you would have to apply for a business license, before that though you should make sure to really research your items that you sell...or that your rental space will allow you to make a profit.  Its a good idea to make contacts with your suppliers now, that way you can see if its profitable business or something that will stress you out and barely keeping your head above water.
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Well it depends on what you want to do with this label.  Are you only going to produce your own stuff, or are you going to produce other artists?  Either way you have to set up a company of some sorts whether it be a corporation or an LLC (you DO NOT want to do a sole proprietorship) and then go from there.  You're going to have to make sure that the name you're using doesn't belong to someone else so you'll have to do a trademark search which Thomson & Thomson in Boston does a thorough search for about $350 or so and you'll have to search the names registered as companies with your Secretary of State or whoever governs corporations in you state.  Also, it helps to get the book by Don Passman that tells artists how to break into the music business just so you know what you're up against.  If you can get an entertainment lawyer at a decent price (which I am in the State of Florida) then they will know all the paperwork and steps necessary and can better guide towards what you need to do.  However, it is something that you can do yourself if you know what you're doing.