First you start with a very very very small business such as this...
http://www.americanhotdogcarts.com/
Then you can save money....
And expand your business, maybe own a small video store....
Rent a room at the mall or somewhere.
This guy is achieving... read about him.
Brian Curneal is part-owner of New Release Videos, 1331 Grand River. The store opened 2 months ago and features daily specials on video rentals.
Video store offers variety of films despite small space, caters to college students
By JEFFREY BALDYGA
The State News
The two-room area of a strip mall New Release Videos occupies doesn’t exactly measure up to the larger, corporate Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video stores not more than a half-mile away, co-owner Brian Curneal said.
The 1,700 square feet of space at 1331 E. Grand River Ave., next to Citizens Bank and Beaner’s Gourmet Coffee, is the perfect size for the store that opened earlier this year, Curneal said.
“I don’t need the same amount of space the larger stores do - I don’t carry as many older videos as other stores, so I don’t need to find room to shelve them,” he said.
The idea behind the store is that customers will find what they’re looking for in much less time than in some of the larger stores in the area such as Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, Curneal said.
“This store is more customer-friendly than the bigger stores,” he said. “This makes it easy for the customer to get in and out.”
Aside from new movies, New Release carries many independent films, Curneal said.
“We carry the independent videos and unrated versions that Blockbuster and Hollywood won’t carry,” he said.
However, Curneal’s competition said despite their size, they are still accessible to customer’s.
Blockbuster Communications spokesman Blake Lugash said his stores are set up to allow customers easy access to desired videos.
“Some of our newer stores have new releases shelved in the inner section and we base this on what the customers’ needs are,” he said.
Hollywood Video doesn’t have any set size for stores, said Michael Bemis, manager of the East Lansing store, 2786 E. Grand River Ave.
“The newer stores are smaller than the older ones,” he said. “We are finding more efficient ways to use floor space.”
Lugash said Blockbuster carries fewer independent films because the store is tailored to provide what is popular in the area.
Bemis said most Hollywood Video stores generally don’t carry a lot of videos made by independent companies or filmmakers, but the East Lansing store is an exception.
“We have what’s called the ‘First Rights’ section, which is all independent videos,” Bemis said. “We carry more than other Hollywood Video stores because we are tailored to the college audience.”
Curneal said New Release Videos carries a limited selection of children’s movies because it caters to a college crowd.
“College kids don’t want to watch cartoons,” he said. “I have 1,000 dollars invested in children’s videos and not one of them is rented out.”
Thirty-year-old New Release customer Lisa McNamara-Reid, who has been a customer since the store opened, said although she partially disagrees with the selection, the store slowly is getting better.
“I think the store has improved since it opened,” she said. “There are now more videos to choose from, but I have a 5-year-old son, so I think it needs a better children’s section.”
Curneal said the store has a policy requiring all employees take home movies as soon as they come in.
“This enables them to always know what they’re talking about when a customer asks a question,” he said.
Since the store opened in February, Curneal said business has been up and down, which he attributes to many different factors.
“Right now business is a little slow because most students are home for the summer, and 80 percent of our 1,400 members are students,” he said. “The construction on Grand River Avenue has also hurt business somewhat because eastbound drivers cannot make left turns into the parking lot.”
Although nearby Blockbuster and Hollywood Video stores present strong competition for the independently-owned store, East Lansing City Council member Beverly Baten said the store should prosper.
“As long as the owners have done their homework and know who they are catering to, they should do all right,” Baten said. “Any time an independent business opens in East Lansing, the city welcomes it with open arms.”
Then after that....
After you save some money,, then you can own a bigger business...
I read this business opportunies in the classifed ads in newspaper... Somebody want to sell their business store.
Business For Sale -
RESTAURANT. Southaven. High traffic location. Turn key operation. $325,000. Cara O'B*****, 901-3**-****. Bob L**** & Assoc., 662-8**-****
Start Date: 03/13/2005 Stop Date: 03/13/2005
So that is how businessmen do.... And of course you gotta take
some college, you can go to a community college for 2 years to learn
some things, especially marketing and how to sell and know about stocks.
And know how color and light attract customers.
