Is a Shop Good for Your Business? (2)
Tips of the day!
Remember, moving out of home into a retail shop can be an enormous turning point in starting and running your own business
Of all the businesses I’ve started from home, the most enjoyable moment is when you take this leap from kitchen table/garage to your first shop. It’s a great feeling to throw open those doors and create a buzz of excitement, pop the kettle on, and welcome your first customers.
When our Dutch bicycle business outgrew the garage and rented containers stage, the most logical step forward was to open a shop. And so the Littlehampton Dutch Bike Shop was born. Initially the costs were prohibitive and our business struggled to meet the additional costs of renting a shop, business rates, and so on.
But working from a shop gave our business instant credibility as would-be purchasers could now test-ride our bikes and visit our shop, and so overnight we went from being just another online faceless retailer to a high profile business.
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