Wednesday, January 4, 2006
IT IS ALL STILL IN THE WORKS
For all of you who had been keeping up with my Business plans, do not fear, I am still working on it. I had come to my senses last year and realized that I would be pushing it to get the business up and going before Christmas. So I backed down some, and figured I would spend more time working on the...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
JUST WHERE DOES INSPIRATION COME FROM?
As I look not trying to get my won store up and going, I of course am looking at other successful businesses to see what they did and how they started. Looking for local haunted houses this year I found this web page that really has an inspiring story as to how these guys got started-...
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Monday, October 3, 2005
WORKING ON MY BUSINESS PLAN
I am really getting it together right now. I hope to have it done by the end of the week. It looks like I will have most of it together by this afternoon. I am using a program my friend gave got a hold of and is letting me use and it is really helping me pull everything together from the various...
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Saturday, October 1, 2005
MY FRIEND'S GRAND OPENING
The friend of mine who has been helping me with some of my business plans just had his Grand opeing today. His store has been open for about a month now, but had the grand opening today. So far his store has been doing as he had planned, which is a real good sign. He was attracting business today...
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Sunday, September 25, 2005
I MAY HAVE JUST GOTTEN MY GREATEST HELP IN ALL THIS
Just got an e-mail that had the Business Plan for a friend who has just opened his store up in Boulder. This is about as valuable as it can get. it has various statistics I can use fully. It also has a basic layout that will be helpful to me. About 2/3 of it I will need to changes to fit my store...
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
DOING THE MARKET RESEARCH
This is proving to be much harder that I thought it would be. So far the only statistics I have found on-line were a few years old. they dod show a growth in the sells of board games though. I am fairly sure that trend has remained, btu I need to find some kind of evidence of that to put in my...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
I THINK I FOUND MY LOCATION
Just got back from a meeting to look at a great location that I really think will work for my plans. The guy I talked with said the idea sounded good and should be with-in the acceptable use for the location. Now I have to put together a personal financial report for them and write letter to request...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
STILL WORKING ON THE LOCATION
The last few weeks one of the biggest concerns has been finding a location for the store. It really is much harder than you would think. I have had a few problems with it already, one being you really can not tell the size of a location just from looking in the window. I have run across a few now...
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GETTING READY FOR CLASS AND I'VE ALREADY HIT MY FIRST BUMP IN THE ROAD
I am pulling all my related posts from 'Thoughts of the Moment' and putting them here so that people can see the what I have done so far and the thoughts I have had. This way the whole story is right here in this Blog, instead of scattered. Originally posted Wed 9/7/2005 7:06 AM My Start-up Business...
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TOMORROW I AM GOING TO TAKE MY FIRST BUSINESS CLASS
I am pulling all my related posts from 'Thoughts of the Moment' and putting them here so that people can see the what I have done so far and the thoughts I have had. This way the whole story is right here in this Blog, instead of scattered. Originally posted Tue 9/6/2005 9:01 AM I just signed up for...
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