Minding my business
Subtitle: the complete, no-nonsense, start-to-finish guide to owning and running your own store
By: by Adeena Mignogna
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781626360075
Subjects: Retail Stores; Management; Vocational guidance; Ownership; New business enterprises; Retail trade
Description: With no previous business experience, Mignogna decided to open up a paint-your-own pottery store. In this handbook, she details all the things she did right-- and wrong-- so that anyone following in her footsteps won't make the same mistakes.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: why I wrote this book; title: My, what a cute little store!; title: Introduction; title: The Pot & Bead : a new life; title: You want to do what? : perceptions of retail; title: Leasing, landlords, and opening late; title: Safe and secure; title: Employees; title: Follow your gut (or how to lose a lot of money trying to buy; title: Someone else's business); title: Customers; title: Ya gotta love them; title: Competition; title: They gotta know you're there; title: Putting the social in social media; title: Hard work does not equal money in your pocket; title: Other things that keep you up at night; title: How to survive those first two years; title: What ever happened to that cute little store?; title: Introduction; title: A double life; title: Money mistakes we make; title: Money in, money out; title: More on employees; title: The internet-it's for businesses now!; title: Getting the business ready to sell; title: At leases end; title: Take my business, please!; title: For sale, by owner; title: Closing the business; title: So you still want to do this; title: The final word-why exactly are you in business?; title: Appendix a: timeline; title: Appendix b: business plan; title: Appendix c: lease clauses; title: Appendix d: the reading list; title: Index.