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If you are starting a dollar store the days of only having a one-dollar-price-point format option are long gone. Today there are more format options than many can imagine. In fact, for the new entrepreneur who is about to undertake a dollar store startup, understanding the options and then clearly defining the format for their store have become critical steps in the preplanning process. Making this decision is required before a final business plan can be complete. Even more important to you as a leader is the fact that without a clearly understood store format you will find some decisions difficult to make. If you are unclear about the format, image the confusion for your employees and your customers.

Start by examining the format options available. In today’s marketplace the dollar format has stretched to include dollar-price-point, dollar-plus (Dollar-plus now includes a variety of one-dollar and over, as well as various single higher price points such as five-dollar only, ten-dollar only, and many other variations.), and even just bargain centers, and closeout stores. The list goes on from there. Your challenge when starting a dollar store is to Continue reading ‘You Must Have Format Clarity When Starting a Dollar Store’ »

How do you become a hot dog vendor? If you’re sick of your job, this question may have pooped into your head a few times. You probably think that I am out of my mind for suggesting food vending as a long-term career option, but the potential earnings of a successful vendor could be up to $1000 U.S. dollars a day! Yes, that is per day worth of profits.

The reason behind this is on an average year in America, up to 18 billion hot dogs are consumed, which means approximately 15 million being eaten in a day! Now imagine the profit good vendors could make out of that sum!

It is not difficult to become a hot dog vendor at all. Here’s what you will need. Continue reading ‘How to Become a Hot Dog Vendor’ »

Why would one want to create a hot dog vendor business? Think about it this way, would you prefer to be your own boss or work for one instead? It is clear that to own a hot dog vendor business, you will be your own boss, work your own hours and do things the way you want to do them.

Now, it may seem like a great thrill to be your own boss but the most important point to look at is will you be making enough money out of this job and if not, why bother regardless of the fun?

This business model can prove to be very successful with good vendors Continue reading ‘How to Create a Successful Hot Dog Vendor Business’ »

Cleaning is one of the top priorities of any home owner that desires to live in a hygienic and clean dwelling. In order to maintain their desired levels of cleanliness, they are most willingly ready to do anything that is well within their budget and can produce the desired results. Many individuals and home owners are stuck between the mad rush of work and balancing a social life and have no energy at the end of the day to take care of their homes. One of the top alternatives that many proprietors are looking into is the feasibility of outsourcing the services of a domestic cleaning company to take care of their homes.

Most of the top cleaning companies around offer the best of services that come amalgamated with talent that has been mastered with years of field experience. These companies offer a rigorous training and development course to their employees so as to ensure that they meet up to the demands, requests, specifications and requirements of their customer. While doing this, they utilize the best of cleaning equipment in the industry and use them with Continue reading ‘Domestic Cleaning Companies’ »

Cleanliness is one of those imperative factors that all homes need to maintain to live in a sanitary and hygienic environment. Not only does it maintain a certain level of standard at one’s home but it also contributes towards an unquestionable social appeal that is well appreciated by friends and family.

However, with today’s chaotic world and the hustle which accompanies it, cleaning can become a daunting task for a home owner to maintain his/her desired levels of hygiene at their homes, particularly after a hard day at work. For home owners that either work in shifts or have added responsibilities or live family lives, the best option for cleaning their homes and maintaining its sanitized conditions is by outsourcing a cleaning company that will be able to deliver results well above expectations. There are numerous benefits that come with a home cleaning company when one appoints them to clean up their homes. Not only do they provide the highest level of domestic cleaning but they also provide the best possible services even in unusual circumstances. Continue reading ‘Benefits of Using Home Cleaning Companies’ »

This just in from BusinessWeek: “Nouriel Roubini, the NYU economist who accurately predicted the financial meltdown, writes an important commentary in The Globe and Mail about two disparate American economies: “There is a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn,” he says.”

Roubini goes on to outline two separate Economies emerging within the United States — a smaller economy driven by large corporations that has slowly begun to emerge from recession, and the larger economy that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.

Echoing what I have been discussing in recent months with small business owners and in my Twitter postings @marketyoursite, small business owners Continue reading ‘Roubini – Small Business Behind the Lagging US Recovery’ »