Staring a shop?

knotbox

knotbox

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What costs would be accoiated apart from the joint itself do you have to pay the companies to carry thier brandds and what not?

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Im not outta line your outta line the whole frikin system is outta line and when you reach over and put your hand into a pile of goo and find out its your best friends face, well guess what marge its chinatown.
 
The best advice I can say is;

-work a couple of years in a ski shop.

-Get involved and get to know who's who in the industry.

-Save up a lot of money, a lot...

-Get some administrative and management skills, experience, lessons... whatever it takes for you to know how to do paperwork. This is what kills most shops.

-Don't expect to make tons of money.

D-Rocks!
 
ya u will it will be hard going for a while and u will be basically out of work in the summer unless u r in a good location.

for success i would say u need 1. Tons of money

2. a VERY good location

3.VERY good marketing

4. and always try to apeal to the youth becasue lets face it....they make or break a new company,

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make sure that you're ready to only ski maybe one day a week in the winter.

and trust no one.

if you have a good shop and good connections, companies will come to you.

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-Ben Bormann
 
try like 1 day a month in the winter. if ur starting a shop u will be devoting your life to skiing and your store...this means if u actually START this shop that u will be incharge of everything and this shop will be your life for a couple of years or until u have finacial security....this will mean alot less of the things u love......like i said before it will be hard times....keep that chin up though and keep your eye on the goal and dont let anyone tell u otherwise.

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dude, retail is hell. especially starting out. and even after 5 or more years. its a hard business. alot of ppl will tell you that too.

 
and give us the heads up becaue ns will probable support you.

'kevin whyed nils pull you out?' 'Cuz i was touchin bitches.' 'No seriously why did he put scott in for you.' 'Scott doesn't touch bitches.'

Viva Candide
 
it's one day a week. trust me.

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'That's what Punk is to me. The near final understanding that the world is ours, and that we only have to realize it to make it so.'

-Ben Bormann
 
it's all about a rental shop, I worked asst manager in one a few seasons ago, we made our money back on the skis within three weeks, we had a 109 day season and grossed like 640,000$. Profit was around 350kish. I'll prolly open one up here in a few years if I can find a decent location

We pay our debt sometimes.
 
you need to have a good location where theres lots of skiiers or you wont last 1 hour

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Work in a shop, get a feel for how things are run. Off-season purchasing, backorders, equipment rentals/tuning if you choose to. There are so many facets of running a shop that I've seen in my few years at my shop. It's a big task, but once you get it off the groud, and have a buyer base or people who support you, it's a great thing. And always puts you around skiing.

Stay Classy Newschoolers
 
I am planning on something like this. I have thought about it and to be a regular ski shack just wont cut it. You wont be able to make enough monye in the summer. S i thought about what i would want to sell and heres my list, skis, poles, boots, outer wear, goggles, helmets, bikes,bike helmets, skateboards, aggressive skates, and rock climbing equipment. I would also have a half pipe and some dirt jumps in the back and charge kids $2 to ride there for the day.

 
That's way too wide of a selection of summer stuff.

Bikes, skateboards, and inline stuff is so vast that you'd only have room for the very core of core stuff.

If you're going to run a store, it has to be pretty much one sport per season, otherwise there's not going to be much selection of each sport, making your prices for stuff higher.

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^ i agree. bikes would take up so much room. boots do, too. you have to have a gigantic store to keep all your stock. it's hard to do if you're not specialized in bikes. i know around here there are probably 10 bike shops in town already.

i hate roadbikers.

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'That's what Punk is to me. The near final understanding that the world is ours, and that we only have to realize it to make it so.'

-Ben Bormann
 
Make sure your selling something yyear round and your hsop just isn't sitting there doing nothing during hte summer.

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Jib and Huck...livin life to the best
 
Unless it's an online shop only, then you can just take it down for the summer and re-open come October.

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if your starting out dont carry boots. boots would be such a bitch to sell cause you need a few of each size and then youll have lots left over.

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