If you were to open a business in a town with approx. 25000 people , what would it be?
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Excellent choice! Becoming a travel agent also give you a open door for other services. And nope... 2 Businesses are not too many for that amount of poeple.\n\nFirst, see if you can get some information about your competitor, like: Customers service rating, prices, marketing strategies, and any other service that he may provide. Do this by asking people around your town and look in newspapers for their ads.\n\nAfter you do this, you need to work on your business plan, go to Entrepreneur.com for some tips and samples. Also, you need to wright at least 3 things that you can do better or cheaper than them (But keep your word and do it for your customers). \n\nNow a good Grand Opening "Open House" will be the best start up marketing strategy I recomemd. get some cheap but good looking invitations and give them out to the Mayor, City Hall workers, Police, Fire Department, Factories, and every other business in town. Try to get the Mayor to go to your open house, this way reporters will be there, too. That's free newspaper advertising...\n\nOh! if you have the resources see if you can advertise your grand opening sale on your local newpapers. Also put a banner outside your office with big letters about your grand opening and leave it their for at lease 3 month. This can get you some extra traffic...\n\nAnother thing. You need to have coupons for all those people at your Grand Opening, because the next time they think about traveling they will call the one they have a discount coupon from, and that would be you.\n\nOther services that you can offer are:\n\nTax Services\nAirport Transportation\nTelecommunication Services\nCar Insurance\n\nAnd you don't even have to do all this for yourself. Just partner with someone that prepares taxes for a percentage of the sale, or even better if they give you a wholesale rate, so you can charge your own price...\n\nHope this help, Sorry But I'm a little sleepy...\n\nGood Luck!\n\nYours truly,\n\nLuis Galarza, Business and Telecommuncation Consultant\nat: http://www.cogni360blog.co.nr and http://luisgalarza.blogspot.com
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Hi! I'd open a temple/multi-religious, new age, holistic center complete with a vegan restaurant, a zen garden, adult-sized playground and with apartments to house the workers, the homeless, vacationers and my 'family' and I.
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What are you good at doing?\n\nFind something locally that everyone complains about and find a solution to their problem.\n\nSee if there are community education courses offered locally that deal with starting a business.\n\nBest of luck.
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Depends on the size of the store, the rent, the number of employees, the range of items in stock, insurance, the state of the economy... there are any number of variables to consider when opening a business.
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the more important question to ask is what business would serve a need that people are willing to pay for...
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I would think that the Belltown area - just a few blocks north of the Pike Place Market and the shops like Macy's and Nordstom would be fabulous. It may be a little expensive though. It would be close to food, shopping, services, a lot of jobs, only a block or so from the free bus riding zone for downtown. Easy access to the waterfront, art galleries, the library, theatres and concert venues.\n\nCheck out the attached map link
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hi \nif you are interested in small home bussiness that is now growing very fast in east asia please send an Email to me
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i would probably start by creating an online business that deals with what you are trying to do. That could help you obtain the capital needed to start you big business
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Pick the city of your choice, contact a local real estate agency for commercial properties, tell them you need a shop sized location  in the suburbs/housing area.\n3 out of 5 ppl have pets, so you can estimate how many potential customers youd be having in that location and you can estimate if you can cover the expenses.
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Open a business there, then you'd have a legitimate reason to stay indefinitely. Amsterdam rocks all night long!
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There is probably no establish 'maximum' but given the town, I'd say close to a grand or more.
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Go into real estate or business.
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a community 5k walk or run. \nfood sale, donation boxes, a few ideas.
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Not much to go on. Depends on the kind of business.\nYou could offer something free or low cost to tourists. Give out maps of tourist areas. Offer something that they might need or want while touring. Or try turning your business into something of a tourist attraction itself. Make it into a unique/niche store or have something unusual there on the premises.\nApart from that, I'd need more info.
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Start my baking business.
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Start a small business that you can operate from home.
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A building in your town and probably has a couple of doors, and windows. Remember?