Polls: We Asked, You Said
Vote, view the results or leave a comment for our Retailing polls. Topics include exit strategies, starting a business, business planning and what motivates you.
At What Point is Your Retail Business?
As your retail business grows, its financial and organizational needs evolve. And as a retailer, your quest for information changes along with your business. Where you once may have needed help developing a business plan, you may now be researching pricing strategies. So in order to better serve you, the reader, I'd like to know at what point in the business lifecycle is your retail business?
As your retail business grows, its financial and organizational needs evolve. And as a retailer, your quest for information changes along with your business. Where you once may have needed help developing a business plan, you may now be researching pricing strategies. So in order to better serve you, the reader, I'd like to know at what point in the business lifecycle is your retail business?
Do You Have Help?
Like most retail owners just starting out, we tried to do all the work ourselves. From marketing the products and paying the bills to juggling the telephone, the customers and the vendors, it was all up to us. How many employees does your business have?
Like most retail owners just starting out, we tried to do all the work ourselves. From marketing the products and paying the bills to juggling the telephone, the customers and the vendors, it was all up to us. How many employees does your business have?
Is This Your Full Time Gig?
Operating from a brick and mortar shop is only one of many forms of retailing. These days, retailing doesn't even have to be done full time to be a success.
Operating from a brick and mortar shop is only one of many forms of retailing. These days, retailing doesn't even have to be done full time to be a success.
Shoe Survey for Retailers
What shoes would you recommend to other retail workers who spend much of their time standing and walking?
What shoes would you recommend to other retail workers who spend much of their time standing and walking?
What is Your Exit Strategy?
If you die or grow tired of your business, what will happen to it? What exit strategy have you planned for your retail business?
If you die or grow tired of your business, what will happen to it? What exit strategy have you planned for your retail business?
When Did You Start Your First Business?
In our household, where retailing is a common dinner table topic, the children are often exposed to business planning and marketing talk. It's no wonder that all three of the teenagers have begun their own enterprises. But it's not just our family.
In our household, where retailing is a common dinner table topic, the children are often exposed to business planning and marketing talk. It's no wonder that all three of the teenagers have begun their own enterprises. But it's not just our family.
Why Do You Want to Start a Retail Business?
Most of the people reading this came here with a common goal. That is, to learn about some aspect of starting and operating a retail business. Yet people choose to go into business for themselves for many different reasons. We each have different driving forces that lead the entrepreneur in us. What motivates you to want to start a retail business?
Most of the people reading this came here with a common goal. That is, to learn about some aspect of starting and operating a retail business. Yet people choose to go into business for themselves for many different reasons. We each have different driving forces that lead the entrepreneur in us. What motivates you to want to start a retail business?