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Just post up the yelp address. We all leave bad reviews.. pretty much ruined at that point. Yelp is a hell of a drug. Crap on google reviews while we're there. Any time someone looks up directions or googles the name, they'll see 1 star.

Just wanted to give a little update on the sign waving thing. It's absolute gold for gaining new customers. I swear it nets me 1 customer every hour someone is out there. It's really hard for people to grind out long stretches on the sign... So I have my current employee hitting some hot spots...

At this point I'm hoping the car is full of hidden drugs and they just needed to stash the car somewhere while the heat dies down. They wanted the plates back so there's no possibility of the car getting picked from the plates. In 3 months they find you with your guard down and the car back at...

You need to find another job. Then say you're leaving to take more money unless they cut the bullshit hours and match the money. Otherwise put up or shut up.

Here's a shot of my only "pet". His name is Hank and he's 4 years old and about 22 inches. Pardon the crappy cell phone pics. DSLR is at home from the last photo shoot at the shop.

It would be awesome if a restraining orders shows up.

Cut. Give up the internet for 1 year or lose the ability to have an orgasm for 1 year?

Last month is in the books. Highest grossing month so far. $14,435.11 This weekend has been insane too. I'm 4 days into the month and have done. $3,493.87 Lots of LED light sales, has left my shelf looking empty. I now have an email to the company about rushing the order out as I don't want...

Nope. The only thing close to that is paying for 2 day delivery on live plants right now because the weather is so hot. So my margin is less on plants during the heat. When it's cooler I can ship them normal priority for about half the cost.

I think it's a case of relativity. A business with lots of employees, high cost equipment repairs etc is more likely to die to cash flow. My store I can literally run the thing off of 36k for an entire year never selling a single thing, and I'd still be taking home a salary and all bills be paid...

My spouse still works. I'm sure I could get a line of credit. I just would rather not. A lot of decisions have panned out much better by slowing things down. When the cash flow is sitting right there, it's so easy to just order it and then regret it. If I got to the point where I was strapped I...

Just depends on who's advice you take.

My aunt just had her colon removed. She had the choice of a bag or intestines connected directly to rectum. She went with it being connected to her rectum and seems to be doing just fine with it. So you might ask about that.

I understand your concerns. From reading the thread it probably seems that way. But in reality the construction is behind closed doors etc. When I mention to customers, I'll be installing another 150 tanks, they go oh really? Wow I thought you had a lot already. I think my main success is...

I'm the same way Tarrant. But when asking customers what they do with them, there's surprisingly a decent portion that does go through them. One guy says he goes through every time to see if the oil change place he likes has a coupon in it. Then it gets put on the fridge. That would be a home...

Thanks for that Opiate. Some good insight in there. On an unrelated note. What are people doing for reviews on their website? I've got 6 posisitve google+ reviews, 7 faceboook reviews and 22 yelp reviews. Unfortunately yelp is filtering out 18 of those reviews. I'm reading that people are...

Anyone have some ideas for a coupon mailer going out? For $300 roughly I can get a full page ad in a coupon book that gets sent out to 15000 local homes. I'm thinking about giving away 1 free live aquarium plant. Retail Value of 5.50 or so. Cost to me is like 1.50. Then the next coupon should...

Half way through the month. If it continues will be my new sales record. Constantly working on sourcing products for cheaper/keeping them in stock. A lot of wholesalers are on tough times right now. Means they run oos semi frequently.

I'm sure it would increase it, but retention rate seems to be basically 100% as is. I'm definitely chomping at the bit to get things installed. My builder is caught up with his real profession of bee keeping. The honey flow is on until it rains... which it's been sunny for like a month straight...

Running a photo contest with facebook user gating... Great results so far. Like 50 new likes in under 12 hours. Spreading around facebook gaining brand image. The cost to me is $15 to run the contest via software. Prize was donated by the sponsor. Will do this monthly for sure.

I totally agree. Except my store is still only 60% built lol. Once it's done, for sure there will be a video that will blow people's minds :P

Technically yes, but the profit margin for me is ridiculously bad. There are 2 dealers in the united states for ADA. Aqua Forest in Sanfran, and ADG in Texas. I'd order from them wholesale, then mark it up... You'd get it cheaper from one of them. I do carry things like Aquatop and Mr. Aqua...

So I finally found some success on facebook. I had my graphics guy make an infographic of some useful aquarium info with my logo on it. Posted it yesterday and so far 3200 people have viewed it and it's had 58 shares. Which as resulted in 9 new likes for my page. Which doesn't mean much cause...

3rd Full month is in the books. Just under 13k. Didn't mean my goal, but when I set the goal I forgot to factor in the summer is always slower in sales. From everything I'm hearing around me, the sky is falling and no pet stores are making money. I seem to be weathering this month just fine.

Yeah. I noticed the pun when I was typing it.. But was too lazy of a way to write it without one.

The free items are very liquid. For instance I can get 6 of these every 3 months.http://www.amazon.com/Seachem-439-Pr...1+gallon+prime As for selling the products. if they sell I'd have to reorder them as I need to have them around to be scanned each quarter. If I get full retail for the 6...

Except the products don't have to be on the shelf. They can be sitting in a box in the back room.

Wondering what you guys think on this situation. A product line I carry has a a rewards program of sorts. I currently carry 31 products of their line. At 70 products of their line. I get 3 "store use" items per quarter. At 101 products I get 6 per quarter. The store use products have a retail...

My overall click through rate is 0.46% Some of my keywords are obscure and have like 10% click through rates. Where as something like Portland Aquarium is being shown to a shit ton of people but the click rate is very low. That is skewing the results pretty badly. Does the clicking system...

I ask every customer that comes through the door also. Now in fact I've run into people who've been in before and I've asked them twice. I guess that's part of the problem of retail is LOTS of customers as opposed to fewer customers who spend more with your business. There have definitely...

Halfway point on the month. I'm on track to match last month. I was trying to increase by 2k, so far I'm behind that. However the weather has been really good. In previous years at the other store I managed, summer months = way less income. For Adwords It's only spent $50 so far. 30 clicks...

I'm wondering if anyone knows the answer as it seems I can't put the right string of words together for google to answer it for me. If I put a logo for my business on the back window of my car, do I need to get commercial business insurance? This vehicle just takes me from home to work etc.

Finally got someone waving a sign for me. Been going 5 hours and have had 4 people come in from it directly. I'd say that's money well spent. Cause who knows how many people will come in during the week from seeing the sign today but were too busy to stop.

Got a letter in the mail from the IRS about a tax penalty for filing taxes late. I had this done by a professional for me. I did wait till about a week before they were due to get started. But I had $100 in deductions from receipts was all, and ended up switching to an S corp. Which mean my...

I spent the day creating 3 videos on breeding tropical fish outdoors. I'm hoping once they're uploading I can get them to go viral at least on fish forums and locally. I'll be interested to see how many views I can garner from about 4 hours of work for promotion.

Thanks for replying. I think this dialogue is helping me quite a bit. I was also considering having car window shades made with my logo. And giving them out to friends/family who I know would be respectful and represent my brand well. For instance having a friend put the shade in the window...

Interesting, I wonder if a cartopper has to be recognizable. For instance people might recognize say Pizza Hut, but does Corndog's Pizza produce the same results?

What are people's thoughts on the info that should be on the graphic? I think my goal is just brand awareness. Letting people know I exist. Whenever I see other advertisements I never consider writing down the phone number or website. Perhaps I'd remember the website later. Although I'd say...

Do you wrap vehicles that are not advertising friendly? Obviously it's more beneficial to wrap say a work van than a sports car. I'm also wondering at the rate of return of say a full vehicle wrap with graphics vs company logo, and website etc on the back window. Obviously you'd think a wrap...

Wow, just wanted to say that the mailchimp wordpress plugin archive is awesome. I can display all my past newsletters on my website with it automatically.