A number of years ago when I was starting my business I made appointments with the 2 banks I normally deal with. I was planning to buy out the inventory of another store that was closing down but I didn’t have that kind of money laying around of course. It was only $15000, [...]
A phone call we all dread to make but eventually have to for one reason or another, is to a tech support line. Long waits on hold, talking to reps who don’t speak English as a first language and sometimes even having to pay for the call are common problems with support lines. [...]
I heard rumor today that one of the other little video stores in town is closing up. The source isn’t the most reliable when it comes to rumors however, so I’ll just have to go do some snooping of my own to see if there’s any truth to it. If it does close [...]
As some people may have noticed, this site (and my subdomains) have been rather flaky lately, especially during the last few days. Emails with tech support have turned up very little useful info as to what’s causing the problem or a good long term solution. I’m getting rather fed up with it and [...]
The guys I’m renting my store from are also in the insurance business, providing home, business and car insurance. I used to get all 3 from them, but found that every year my premiums seemed to be creeping upwards. A customer/friend of ours was reminding me one day that he also sells insurance, [...]
The people we rent our store from have quite a lot of rental property investments, for example, they own the entire block where our store is located. Because of this, moving was made easier. I didn’t have to break my lease, they simply let me sign an extra year onto what was left [...]
I say it every time and yet here we are again, moving. I hate moving, I’m never moving again, blah blah blah. At least this time the move wasn’t far, just a few doors down on the same block so at least I didn’t need to hire a New York Moving Company. [...]
Been too busy at work to get a lot of gaming in for the last couple of weeks. Moving a store is a lot of work and a major pain in the ass. Most of the stuff is moved now but the new place is still a huge mess that needs sorting out. [...]
Another year came and went and when processing my year-end statements for my annual small business valuation I’ve found that this was our worst year yet. Even the holiday season kinda sucked, especially when compared to a few years ago. 2003 was our best year in the 8 years we’ve been open so [...]
Within the next couple of weeks I’ll be moving my business to a new location, funny thing is it’s just a couple doors away and with the same landlord. It’s a smaller place though, newly renovated, and the rent is $400 a month cheaper. Should be easier to heat too which means more [...]
Rumor has it that Medina Management Strategies may be getting into the Italian dessert business. Medina is alledgedly looking to add San Gelato to the list of franchises that it offers employee and management services too, joining the likes of Cuppy’s Coffee, Planet Wings and Specialty Coffee Co-op. To sit still in [...]
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Most people these days can do without a checking account, it’s so much easier to keep a savings account and just use a debit or credit card when making purchases whether you’re in a store or shopping online. A lot of stores won’t even accept personal checks anymore anyway, which makes them really only [...]
