question for shop owners?
819776
hmmm school was almost 11 years ago... graduated college with my Bachelors in Arts... Worked for 7 years as... Marketing Director, Ceo, Development Director and consultant respectively. Made between 50-120k throughout the years. Sold my house, took out two loans and scraped up all my saving to start my company 3 years ago. Right now, the company is still at a loss, this should change in spring. Hope that helps!
122581
Are you looking at purchasing a printer or looking for a print/copy shop there?\nPlease click on Add Details on the right -beside your question.
186242
unless they are cheaper, then u can and more ppl will come. but u may be _rioted" against by the other shop(s). just ask someone professional or u'll get into trouble.
992555
I worked as a mystery shopper recruiter (and had nearly 500 people on my books) all over the country. I also PAID my shoppers (per store visited) on a monthly basis via BACS. The company is based in Warrington, although I worked in the London office. They are called CJ Services, and I would give them a try.\nHappy shopping.
49157
If you have a particular bookshop in mind call the owner or manager and ask if you can interview him or her. Prepare a list of questions before you go such as : When was the store opened? Who was the owner? Why did they open it? What kind of books did they stock then? What kind of books do you stock now? Why the change? How you had any authors visit the store? Who are your customers? Are they different then the kind of people you have had in the past? And so on.\nAlso contact your local public library and see if they have or can help you get any articles on the bookstore. Have fun.
316823
For you or your employees?
879588
What about a "punch card" type promotion.  I would love if my dry cleaner gave me a punch card, then every time I dropped off an item, the card was punched and when it is filled (example - 10 items,) you get a coupon for one free "sweater, shirt, pants, dress, whatever YOU choose) to be cleaned.  Give them the coupon with strict guidelines on it for what it can be used for (so they don't bring in a mink coat, etc.) or the coupon could be for $10.00 of your next dry cleaning bill.
1018051
24/7 seems to work.  You would be surprised if you checked the stats for agents such as WALMART in the USA, that because people work around the clock, they want to shop when they get off work.  I guess it really depends on what kind of store your talking about.  The downside is the higher cost of operation.  There has to be a demand for your products.  Check out an economics 101 book.
63754
I have a GREAT idea.  What you do, is you post a question like "why is no one buying our products?" on a place like "Yahoo Answers" and then when someone opens your question, post the URL of your website so that the schmucks who who see it will go to it and buy your product....  (Oh wait, you've already tried that.....)
292679
I have a few questions . . . regarding your store . . . \n\nIs it open 24 hours a day . . . \n\nIf not . . . do it while your store is closed . . . either before it opens or after you close . . . and do a couple of section each time . . . . update your inventory after you complete a section . . . until your store is complete.\n\nIf you are open 24 hours a day . . . it would be more difficult . . . but during the dead or slow periods . . . do one section at the time . . . when you complete the section the adjust your inventory to the amount purchase during your count . . . and enter your corrected amount in the inventory. . . .\n\nBasically do a cycle count of 3-5 products daily . . . and schedule the frequency do to the popularity of the items.  Especially if you are running a 24 hour mart.
345255
what are the items which you are selling? if they are not too large, can you keep one room to store them. put an advert in your local paper. good luck
64325
better yet how is this a small business question... please pick the right catagory
137176
be honest\nserve your customers well
325736
It sounds like you need customers.  Good luck.
1027278
What type of business?
613325
are you trying to buy one or operate one?
844085
Depends what you're selling in your store really.\n\nSo your previous answerer was absolutely right really.\n\nYou need to check the demographic of the population, what competition you have in the area, etc.\n\nFor instance.............if the average age of the population is 50+ there would be no point opening a baby shop................or no point opening a burger bar if there is a McDonalds on one corner of your block and a Burger King on the other !\n\nIn very simple terms, most very basic business estimates use the Pareto Principle (otherwise known as the 80/20 rule). This basically says that in a business 80% of the sales comes from 20% of the customer base. \n\nThis can be applied to many other statistics, so in your case, 13791 people are your target market. How you get them through the door is down to you, your product, your pricing, and your marketing.\n\nGood luck.