Ever heard the saying, "You're either born it or you aint it"? It seems to be true to some degree, the rest of us just have to work a lot harder at it. But I'm sure if that's where your interest lies and you run with it, you can only be successful. Just remember, "The road to success is paved with failure" - Author unknown (to me at least).
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I totally agree with this statement: "being at the right place at the right time with the right idea"
Furthermore Andrian: I've always been interested in the printing business. It seems like there are just so many of that type of businesses out there. Is it hard for you to get clients or is your business already established in such a way that clients simply find you?
The business is established to a degree but one still has to go and fetch the business. The trick I found is to support other businesses in their endeavours to make money. So, if I print something for a photographer who sells it on to his customer then we both score. I don't need to find the downstream customer myself, all I need to do is to support the photographer. You see, I try to service those who are building their own customer base.
Very nice . Some intricate work thereOriginally Posted by adrianh
We are going to be neighbours
When is the site going up?
What do you mean?
Your website I mean.
Are you on Facebook?
Have you tried to look at it?
Yeah I looked at your face book page and it looks good but if you use your facebook page in conjunction with a website you can pull clients from all over the country and every one who google's for a art's and crafts supplier near you will get to see your shop and the work you do and people love info so the more the better about what you do,what you sell,what you can do,who you cater to...etc because allot of businesses as well as normal customers love the fact that they know what they get and allot of people are lazy so if they want something from a shop like yours and don't know about you they don't want to drive around they want to google and know if they come to you you can take care of there needs.Just my 2 cents.
I know that “going online” is not by any means a magic potion for optimal sales or anything, but it has its place. If the website and maintenance thereof is less than your profit over say 3 years surely it’s worth it. I don’t know much but it seems advantages to me that you have one. I am not focussed on retail but even me, old pmbguy, is looking at “going online” sometime next year. Hell, even if its profit can cover my insurance or something in 5 years, why not. Its a numbers game.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin
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