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Post by GiantsFan on Apr 3, 2018 0:20:31 GMT
artisticscrapper - maybe your LSS can check out other stores that are working. My LSS (45 min away) is always filled with people. They have current products for scrapping, journaling, card-making, mixed media, bible journaling. They do lots of classes and crops. Maybe your friend can contact Laurie (the owner) and ask for advice on how to be successful. It's in Los Gatos so not in competition with a SoCal store. They don't have a website but their FB page is creative escape los gatos
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Post by scrapbookwriter on Apr 3, 2018 2:31:36 GMT
What stae are you in? Can she drive to a competitor (even if it's hours away) to see what a successful store looks like? We are in Southern California. There isn’t much near by but I think it might work if she checks out a few websites of some of the better, successful stores. Thanks for the suggestion. Pages of Tyme in Mission Viejo is a great store. I spent a happy day scrapbooking there last month. They carry the Foundations Decor line of wood products, too. Pages of Tyme
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 3, 2018 3:13:46 GMT
I was thinking more on a local level, and more informal. Maybe meet once a month over dinner and discuss their situations and find solutions. Almost every profession has such. As a 30 year carpet cleaner, I was involved with our local area carpet cleaners, a lot of them I still see on occasion. We even had an informal program of help. If someone had to go off work because of hospitalization or injury, others would step in and cover the work them. If when you decide to go into any business you have to ask yourself "Why am I going to start/buy a business?" A lot of folks say they want to be in charge, or I just love the business. The only reason to go into any business is to MAKE MONEY, nothing else makes sense. Anything else is a hobby with major debt. Oh, I totally get what you’re saying. My DH owned a retail store that was part of a retail co-op where the local owners talked and helped each other out all the time. Many of them became actual friends. In contrast, most of the independent LSS owners viewed each other as competition and didn’t want to work together in a similar manner until just before Archiver’s moved in and by then it was too little, too late.
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