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Yeah this is definitely on the list of possibilities. Wife's car is a 02 Camry. Our other vehicle is a grand caravan type of deal. I might be picking up a sports car for my daily drive, which wouldn't wrap/graphic well on the back window.

Obviously this month I'm focusing on gaining new customers/advertising. It seems like I should just funnel as many people as I can to an email signup. Then have that email newsletter I create go to their emails, and facebook, my website etc. That way I can control the emails instead of say...

Yeah I can see that. Especially since while I'm driving I'm never going to write down a phone number. If I was to advertise on a bus, it's purely to let people know this fish store exists. Brand awareness instead of lead generation.

So when my keyword is ranking lets say 1.8. What is that telling me? I have adblock on so it makes it hard to see how google is displaying these. But when I looked on another computer it seems the the adsense add is on the bottom of the page. Would 1.8 put me on page 2 of the search at the...

Still no one sign waving for me yet. But someone saw my sandwich board on the street. They literally live 30 seconds away from my shop. They had no idea I was there, saw the sandwhich board and spent $400 over two trips yesterday. This is why I think the sign waver will work. I have a really...

Setup adwords. After doing research, it seems like google's CPC estimates are kind of a scam. I'm starting with my CPC low and will work upwords to get the clicks I want. It seems that it's setup that if you overshoot the going rate, you're just paying more than you need too? In the...

So an update on the facebook offer. The "promotion" part of it on facebook's end is over. It used $28 bucks. and reached 4600 people... That got me 2 likes, and a total of 9 people who have claimed the offer. I'd say a total bust as far as facebook promoting goes. Now that I'm home I can...

I just wanted to drop a quick note as I'm out the door. I got an email back about advertising on local transit bus system. Pricing is per bus per 4 weeks: Kings - $455 Queens - $385 (very limited space) Tails - $355 11x17 Interiors - $17 11x34 Interiors - $34 ** we will do a...

Your right. I need to buckle down and figure out an adwords campaign etc. For some reason I'm having a hard time believing it's going to generate me money. What I'm thinking is that lets say someone is looking for a stingray and type it in to google. They might land on my site, problem is...

Yeah I looked on the big chain websites and didn't find the info I was looking for. While generally I'd agree with the sign waver comments. I believe that most fish keepers will check out EVERY store they are aware of that exists. You might also say posting on craigslist would only bring...

I've been researching some promotion things today. As I want to keep growing business. This month isn't over yet. But Sales were up 25% basically. If I want to try and keep that momentum I need to find more new customers. I just created a facebook offer that is giving away free fish food...

They crazy part is, that would probably put sales through the roof. My biggest hurdle right now is people knowing I'm there. Surely that would get newspaper and tv coverage lol.

Yeah from day one, people could find out who I am or what my business is. The main goal is to not have my customers stumble upon this thread and seeing me acting not as professional as in person. By simply creating this thread, I have no doubt that if I hid my information as much as I could...

Got my sign installed today! Sales are going well this month. I've done $200 more than last month as of today with a week to go. Which is trends continue would be a 25% increase from last month. Craigslist is still bringing in customers, few more from Yelp as well. My fiance got...

So doubling back then. Is it all about the time slot on Tv then? Cause you had a morning spot that wasnt working well?

yeah, I'm currently looking at other options. As it's $75 each person. So each employee will be $75 also even if they're just part time... I'm gonna go in to my bank tomorrow and see what options they offer as well.

QB is a consideration but I think the time investment isn't going to be worth it for me. This is why I'm investigating it, if it's super easy and cheap possibly do it myself, but really looking for a cheaper way to outsource it. I'm reading conflicting thing on google searches. It seems I can...

I switched to an S corp at tax time. Now I'd like to pay myself my salary this month. Tax person said they charge $75 a month for payroll services... so I need to learn to do this myself. I'm going to start googling now, but hoping some of the other business owners have tips.

On an unrelated note. Has anyone run a facebook contest? Like post a picture of your aquarium, get the most likes and you'll get $100 gift certificate type of deal. I'm wondering if it worked out well for them. To me it seems like it'd get me more facebook likes, but does that mean anything...

I believe they will correct that soon. But honestly it's not that big of a deal. The way I "deal" is saving 4k on another POS system that has other bullshit things besides this to deal with. I've put 20k through the Square system now. Had 2 returns, they just ended up exchanging it for store...

I love square. I read tons of horror stories etc on the internet before I switched to it. Ever since I have, I haven't had a single problem. Instead of having problems, sometimes I come into work and there's an update and I've gained more features. I love the fact I can look at the data online...

So I ordered and got my bluetooth barcode scanner for the Square Register system... It's awesome. The range is great. I still get signal like across the street from my store etc. It has cut checkout time by like 50% at least. I'm considering whether I want to implement it on my fish and plants...

The dry goods I'd say are mostly LED lights, sponge filters, chemicals etc. Not much food. People only need so much food.. The ONLY reason I'm moving so much dry goods is because my prices in store are the same as online. Part of the problem though is that an LED 4 foot fixture. Costs me like...

I'd say it's 50/50 in dry goods vs fish. Which I am very surprised about.

Just found out I'll have a fish hobby "celebrity" in my shop tomorrow for 3 hours. It's super short notice so I've posted it on local fish forums and facebook. I've attempted to "boost promotion" on facebook for $5 just to test it.. It's been about 30 mins and hasn't used any of the money...

I expected to have much lower sales initially. This is what has made building the rest of the store out so difficult. Right now the store is about 60% built out. Many long nights after the store closes to get things installed each and every week. I had anticipated it being very slow during the...

First full month in the books. Put a little over 10k through the register. Here some more pics from the store. Just got the planted co2 tanks setup, more plants arriving tomorrow. Met with a sign maker on Wednesday morning. Shot him some of my graphics etc over yesterday. I'll be meeting with...

He's just addressing the problem in a different way. By making the company more efficient. He can make up some of those lost calls each week. It's never bad to improve efficiency. The more Lyrical speaks, the more I would just go slap 100,000 infront of his biggest competitors estimator. If...

I think you're a bit off here. Obviously it is easier to take a guy who has worked on the crews for 5 years and train them to do the bids. 5 years ago you weren't working on these crews and now you run the whole show. You can take a white collar worker and put them into the position you want. It...

Manastone by far. Would you rather give up cheese or give up the ability to drive any vehicle for transportation, legal or otherwise.

I'm that way too. I've just never bought a banner and don't know where the break point is... Like crappy ones are $80. Perfectly good ones are $150 and $400 are only slightly better etc? But yeah my gut says buy the more expensive one.

While I'm not thrilled. Lets be real here. It's not like I'm throwing around a 50k a year position and can fill it easily. I'm offering someone 2 days a week currently on an as needed basis. Not exactly a line forming for that kind of work. We will see his work ethic in the coming weeks. It was...

Yeah I would hound the shit out of them if I was paying. This is a friend who has done all my design work. I frequently get "wow who made this logo etc comments" He's really good at what he does, but for some reason it's taking a long time to finish this one correction.

I'm going to give the guy a chance still as it's hard to pin someone down with knowledge and only work then part time which is all I need at the moment. I won't tolerate anything else and I'll make it clear no call /no show = don't both coming back. The kid is only 21 and worked at his mom and...

Noted. I might have to order some of that up. I'm using their brand of liquid traps now. It's killing ants. but Not getting the source. I suppose if I put that at the entrance points it would stop them from coming in.

Noted. I might have to order some of that up. I'm using their brand of liquid traps now. It's killing ants. but Not getting the source. I suppose if I put that at the entrance points it would stop them from coming in.

double post.

Event went well, 150 totes handed out. 6 people have redeemed their free package of food. Tank has some angels, rainbows and a school of rummynose in it. Waiting for filtration and lighting to arrive. Or at least more filtration and lighting. Putting a new Fluval FX6 on it so I can demo it in...

Filling the tank up as we speak. Pray that it holds :P Obviously I saw it holding water before I bought it. But moving a large tank can cause things to shift.

2,000 used on craigslist. A new 300 gallon double deep. 72x36x27 from the wholesalers was $1450 with no stand or canopy just glass tank. It's also been on back order for 5 weeks. That's what had me looking on craigslist. As I had this big open spot at the very front of my store.