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How does link trading and page rank play into this? How hard should I try to get on a few related sites? For my fish store, the club website is pagerank 4. Another member runs a fish info site that is page rank 5. I own a fish info site that is page rank 3. Now obviously I can link to my own...

Had the fire marshal walk through on Monday and I was a-ok. He says my business license should arrive in the mail next week. Said I could open that day if I wanted. So I'm setting my soft opening date for the 22nd. Still lots of things to setup, as I wasn't allowed to setup anything more since...

Yeah. They were called "Wonder Bulbs". They're bulbs just like bulbs for a garden. They are lilly species and apontogeton species. They are great, but it's hard for a store like me to get them in a package. I can order them outside of a package, but being in a package is what gets people to try...

Exactly BrutalTM. Basically each normal family thinks a 55 gallon aquarium is huge! So that's the biggest aquarium they'll own. I can either sell them a pair of oscars and lets say an arrowana and clear $100 for that tank. Or I can sell them live plants and a couple hundred tetras and clear...

An example, a store in the city I live in, ordered 4000 feeders a week. That's $280 cost. If you sell them 10 for $1 like alot of stores. That means you make $120 dollars if you sell every single one without a single death. Now if you account for the fact that it'll take 30 minutes each day to...

How many feeders were you getting for a dollar? Because they're 7 cents each wholesale. Every single store owner I've talked to loses money on feeders. Between losses and employees having to do water changes on the feeders to keep them alive.

If I want to go out of business I'll carry those. They are quick money, but not long term money.

Shooting for soft opening on 15th. As I can do some local promotion at some events this Saturday and Next Tuesday. I called the city to ask what's next to get a business license but the person wasn't in today... Pretty sure it's just Police and Fire marshal walk through.

Plumbing inspection passed. Onto the next hurdle.

Talked with the city and water district. Looks like I still need a permit with the city for plumbing.

Lol this shit just gets better and better. Today my plumber got an email that said the city I'm in is not responsible for the address I'm at. It's like this little sub section of a water company. So tomorrow I'll find out whats up. I think it can only get better from here. The weak thing is my...

You'd think it'd be some insane requirement as I'm a crazy cheap ass fuck right? Turns out the best service of my life was when it was snowing outside, and some buddies and I went into a restaurant and we all ended up ordering soup. Just so happens the soup was free refills. When one person...

Yes that's true. The government knows that theres so much tax evasion on tips that they say everyone in the USA can make at least $2 in tips per hour.

And so with only 2 tables before it's ramping up. Making $13 an hour for 1/3 of the work seems just fine to me. I've only ever met one server who impressed me and went above and beyond. I tipped $20 on a $14 tab. Every other dining experience ever, my server has only ever "done their job" Take...

I'll post the same thing I did on Foh. I tip $2 per hour I'm at a table. Assuming it's me and the Gf. I can go up sometimes if I feel extra generous. But honestly leaving the 2 dollars kills me. In Washington state, servers get min wage which is over $9 now. Now it was brought up that servers...

Got a letter from the city on my plumbing permit submitted last Tuesday. They are reviewing the permit and the drawing....

I'd recommendwww.rapidled.comand a solderless kit. Here is a DIY video on it in particular. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rLFh3Q_FEA

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I sent out my first newsletter using mailchimp this week. I have 41 subscribers, my retail location isnt open yet. However I would say it was a huge success. I requested that people email me back in what they were interested in me stockign fish wise. I received 7 emails back. Mailchimp also...

I plan to start out solo. Then add an employee as sales justify it. I figure if I'm struggling to be known at the beginning, what good is having 2 people sit there instead of one.

Now that I got pics up. I have a question. How do I pay myself a wage through the business? I'm guessing it's not just as easy as transfering money from Business account to personal account. I assume I need to pay the social security, L&I etc right then? I'm sure some ofyou guys pay yourself a...

Painting tanks black. Some tanks have custom backgrounds that are done by my builder. This tank looks weird, but you have to build the colors front to back. The tank looks great from the front. Also today I noticed my horrible stained carpet now has spray paint overspray on it. It's been raining...

Photo Bomb time. First rack for tanks is up. Sales counter area. All wood is maple from a sustainable local lumber source. Live edges on the counter. Sign is hand carved by my builder. Electrical I had done. All circuits are on a GFI and on switches. I've never seen another fish...

I just recently bought a DSLR for my business. My first DSLR ever. At this point I'd almost rather have less megapixels. I bought a refurb nikon 5200 with lense for like $480 on Ebay through B&H. It takes great pictures. I used someone elses camera before buying one. He had like a newer 5000...

I'll tell you what I'd of done! Nothing. Any time I have ever tried to remedy a situation in a public setting like that it only gets worse. When we go out, there's always atleast a 50% chance some other diners are gonna fuck it up. That's just the odds around here. Maybe someday it'll be like...

I'll shoot some pictures tomorrow. Today I vacuumed a bunch, painted some backs/sides of tanks. Primer conduit and put some paint on them. Also got a 180 gallon tank into the store as well.

Yeah it looks like you just eat it if they return it. I'm guessing most people wont. I've never returned an item to amazon ever.

Cheakyeah, do you have experience selling on amazon using the fulfillment center? Being that they're Washington based. I could hand deliver my products. I'm finding Items that are selling on there at the lowest price of say 7.49 that I buy wholesale for $1.89. It seems like I could just deliver...

Thanks for the post Cheakyeah. I fully intend to sell tons of fish onwww.aquabid.comIts as simple as buying it wholesale, then putting it online and selling it for double money. You have an interesting point about amazon I hadn't considered. I'm gonna look into that.

So the meeting with the city went well. Dismissed the crazy permit they wanted from me. Now they just want to see my water change system setup, with my plumber there and the inspectors at the same time to sign off on the plumbing permit. Which means quickly setting things up this week as we were...

As for smart phones android. I'd recommend ting wireless. Girlfriend and I are very light data users, which this app would be. If this was a work only phone, you could probably have most people on the crew with a phone and all share the mins/data for like $100 a month. Our cell bill dropped from...

My thoughts are. How will this help protect you on the weekend if it's phone driven? That means the driver has to leave an Iphone in the equipment over the weekend, which will be a high theft item. Also has to have it keep power to it over the weekend. I know some people with Lowjack on their...

In truth, I myself saved nothing. I have a longtime friend as an angel investor of 50k cash. So I won't have any loan hanging over my small business head. So far I've spent 15k of it. It looks like the store will be open and operating having spent 20k cash and oweing 12-20k to a friend who is my...

Lots of freeway jimmies rustled. But no one has mentioned my biggest. Traffic Jam for half a mile or so. After 10 minutes in traffic you see there is an accident on the OTHER side of the freeway going in the opposite direction. People slowed down to look so much that it caused a traffic jam...

So the saga with the city continues. I got a letter from them yesterday that states to go any further with the business application I need a tenant improvement permit. To apply for this permit, it requires an insane long list of things to be done. To name a few. Architectural drawings of the...

About half are existing customers. The other half are people who've found me on the forums/local club.

So I'm new to small business taxes. I've got some questions. What are some deductions I should be aware of? Right now I'm doing mileage deduction. But when you can't deduct for commuting to and from work. It seems like it won't have that large of an impact. I've been saving all receipts...

Yeah I'll post pictures when it's open and continuing through it's life. I don't think I'll make the 15th. I can force a soft opening them. But I'm realizing it will just be easier to build out another room of the store without people in there. I might shoot for march 1st. Not sure yet playing...

Building inspector walked through today. Told me to pull a plumbing and electrical permit and put in a lever door handle for ADA requirements. Also wants a lower counter for ADA access. 3 more inspectors to go.