what is the process for doing direct capitilization for a shopping center?
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Youd have to do it in your busness plan and enforce it
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If you need to come to yahoo to ask for business advice then perhaps you need to do a lot more research than what you've already done.\n\nA lot of your question depends on the existing space you are interested to use for the store. \n\nIf the store is a dump with no HVAC and electrical, then your expensive will rise a good 30% on top of all the fixtures and paint and flooring, but if the store used to be a Best Buy with everything in it, then you obviously have nothing to worry about.\n\nIt also depends on how high end you want your store to be, do you want custom shelving or standard off the rack stuff? do you want expensive lighting or just flourescent? what kind of flooring do you want? All of these will vary your cost greatly.\n\nTo cover all ballparks, $100/square foot will get your store looking like a Circuit City or better, or 1/2 that if you go bare bones and spend your weekends painting the walls.\n\nLastly, any amount you think you'll need, double it when you ask for investment. Something will always go wrong and you'll need the money. \n\nAlso, an architect will be willing to consult on everything including what tie matches your pants as long as he or she gets paid, but look for one with relevant retail experience, it is very specialized and a residential architect cannot tell you what fixture to use in a store to save his life.
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The article "Starting a Shoe Retail Store" can give you some pointers on how to go about starting this business http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol136/shoe.htm . \n\nA shoe store business is not something you can start without capital and without access to credit. Loving shoes is one thing; but owning a shoe store is another. You need to have capital in order to provide for the following cost expenditures: leasing a store (the cost of which will depend on the size, design and location), displays and racks, backoffice furniture and shelving, inventory selection, business licenses and permits, insurance, marketing, and many more.\n\nTo get ideas of the latest footwear styles and to develop contacts and find suppliers in the shoe retail industry, it is important that you attend any or all of the important trade shows in this industry (participation of which also depends on the availability of resources for your travel, accomodation and trade show fees):\n\n- World Shoe Association http://www.wsashow.com/ the largest and most comprehensive footwear and related accessories event \n- Magic Marketplace http://www.magiconline.com - mainly apparel and accessories, though includes footwear as well\n- Fashion Footwear Association of New York http://www.ffany.org - largest shoe show in the East Coast\n- Shoe Market of the Americas http://www.smota.com - held 3 times a year in Miami\n- North American Shoe and Accessories Market http://www.northamericanshoe.com  - the 10th largest shoe show in the world\n- Los Angeles Shoe Show http://www.californiamarketcenter.com\n- Southwest Shoe Expo http://www.southwestshoeexpo.com - held 5 times a year at Dallas World Trade Center \n- Chicago Shoe Expo http://www.chicagoshoeexpo.com - a small regional trade show held 4 times a year in Chicago\n- Micam Shoevent http://www.micamonline - international trade show for medium to high end footwear held twice a year in Milan\n- GDS http://www.mdna.com - the premier shoe event held twice a year in Dusseldolf, Germany\n\nMy advice is to either save up for more capital first or find an investor willing to support your venture. A retail store, whether you like it or not, has LOTS of overhead -- from rent, electricity, salaries of employees, etc.\n\nGovernment grants are typically not available for for-profit ventures such as a shoe store (check http://www.cfda.gov and http://www.grants.gov to see if there is a single one that offers grants for your planned project - there's none). For SBA loans, you may want to check their low-cost loan products available http://www.sba.gov/financing \n\nWhile you are getting your plans together, you may also want to check out the following Trade Associations for more information on this business: \n\n- National Retail Federation http://www.nrf.com \n- America Apparel and Footwear Association http://www.americanapparel.org/... \n- Electronic Retailing Association http://www.retailing.org \n- National Shoe Retailers Association http://www.nsra.org/
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easy way or hard way:\n\nhard way: do the same thing you did when you owned the store: advertise, sell, deal with merchant services, provide customer service, etc. etc. etc. \n\neasy way: sell the whole thing for a lump sum and be done with it.\n\nI did it the easy way back in 91. I kept a couple of things ('76 cloth stickers, 84 leaf set, 86 sportflick set, a box of random rookies, and 2 uncut sheets of 85 and 84 tops,) and sold the rest for 100 bucks. My only regret is that in that box were a bunch of mcguire team usa cards and the Nike set.
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With the continuous growth in competition in retail sector and retailers even struggling for survival, new and new techniques are being applied to set-up, establish and run the show successfully.\n\nYou have many suggestions above and there are hundreds of examples in real life, yet business are not the same over period of time with the retail stores and they keep on modifying with the changing pace and market situations.\n\nSo many factors would determine your marketing and business running techniques such as your competition, location, type of products - consumable or durables, your resources, flexibility in business model......Have you thought of seeking professional advice on the subject?\n\nYou have options of trying hit and trial methods, from amongst the various suggestions applying your logics or you can avail qualified and experienced business advice. It is ever changing market and you need to be continuously on alert and not just once to start and make it move a business.
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At last a question that I can answer with some authority.\n\nAs a rule of thumb in development you want to build a retail store in a corner location with the highest traffic count, most rooftops and best demographics.  \n\nWalgreen's and CVS (used to be Eckerd's) have been in competition with one another for years for hard-corner locations.  If either Walgreen's or CVS got to a particular location before their competitor, the company with the most money for land acquisition in their budget won.  These companies will pay an astronomical amount of money to get the location that they want, even if it means displacing families and rezoning a location from residential to commercial development.\n\nSince, in most cases, the same seller does not own every corner of an intersection and therefore cannot offer a pharmacy deed restriction, the loser would then seek to purchase another corner in the same location in an effort to steal the competitor's customer's.\n\nIt is really just a great big game of retail chess to see which company can capture the most prime locations and have a store up and operational in the shortest amount of time in an effort to buy customer loyalty prior to their competition getting their store open.
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If you've already got your products manufactured or at least the idea jsut pick up the phone to head office of supermarkets and ask who the ready meal buyer is (fresh or frozen) and talk it through with each buyer. Each retailer has their own way of launching new products but the buyers will advise all.\nGood luck!
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If you want to know everything, then I suggest you read books on the topic. Here are some suggested readings\n\n \n- Retail in Detail : How to Start and Manage a Small Retail Business (2nd Edition) (Psi Successful Business Library) by Ronald L. Bond \n- Successful Retail Business by Entrepreneur Press\n- Start and Run a Profitable Retail Business (Start & Run a) by Jim Dion and Ted Topping\n- The Guide to Retail Business Planning: The Complete Handbook for Creating a Winning Plan for Any Retail Business by Warren G. Purdy \n- Success in Store: How to Start or Buy a Retail Business, Enjoy Running It and Make Money by Geoffrey Heard and Gordon Woolf \n- Retail Success! by George Whalin\n\nYou may also want to read the information and researches of the National Retail Federation \nhttp://www.nrf.com/content/default.asp?folder=home&file=main.htm
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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 general retail association 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* 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\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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I liquidate also.\nI can't give you sources, but do a search on the Internet under every category pertaining to liquidation and advertise for wares in your city Business Journal for goods.\nEthically, you should sell goods outside your suppliers marketing area.\nMany Stores buy on this secondary market.\nThink Dollar Stores.
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Every business needs capital.  You may want to start by  making your Business Plan  Proposal.  In there, you will put all the ingredients.. like Basic info about ur business, marketing stratergies, purchasing, structures, scopes of your business.  There are alot of things that you need to do before you see your business standing.  Once, your business plan is done, you can start approaching companies or maybe the court, regarding the permit, legal and all.  \n\nGood luck!
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Read the site linked below. It has an excellent overview of the entire process.
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your putting items in a place so someone will see them and purchase them on impluse
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You have to solicit the corporate sponsors, but I think you would be surprised how many will actually donate.  Write a letter, make phone calls, try to set up face-to-face meetings.  \n\nAlso, individual store managers sometimes are given a small discretionary fund with which to make donations (supermarkets, etc.).  \n\nYou are doing noble work.  God bless and continued success!!
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Just start knocking on doors and making phone calls. One tip is to focus on locally owned businesses. Very often in large chain stores or multibranch companies the manager has little control over the money or over donations and trying to get anything out of them is a hassle.
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its as easy as eating ice cream. 1st as u eat the toppings , u 1st need to prepare the targets, than try to plan how would u get that target, which ever strategy u prepare- see that u consider ur customers, business, market and competitors.\nall the best
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In alot of city's there is a program called Direct Buy. They have some unbelievable deals.