Well, if we’ve learned anything over our ten years of owning and operating a brick and mortar store, it’s that it requires YOUR time and dedication. In our efforts to keep thriving as a land based gift retailer, we lost ground in our inability to juggle all of life’s demands including other full time […]
Last week John and I received a call from the owner of our biggest selling line. This was the type of call that all retailers hate to hear. “Hey, we’re moving our operation cross country and by the way, product will not be available until January 2007. And we have to cancel your […]
Even since before we opened our small business, we thought our location was the best in our area. When we opened our first little shop in 1998, we were two doors down from a very popular weekend breakfast restaurant. The Big Kitchen Cafe has been serving hearty home style breakfasts since 1980.
Most of the misguided […]
These posts will be dedicated exclusively to issues and interests of stand alone retail small businesses. These small businesses do not have an Internet web site of any kind, whether just a simple static page for information only or one based on ecommerce sales. Discussions will be based on whether or not to choose to […]