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Mary Pipkin Read more on The Wenatchee World As a small business owner I am sure you brainstorm almost everyday ways in which you can increase your visibility and ultimately make more money. Have you ever considered getting an open sign? An open sign will increase your visibility and bring more traffic to your store. More visibility is the key to making more money. There are many different open signs available on the market today so you have to choose whichever one works best for you and your business. Most open signs come with the all too familiar neon blue border with the word “open” in a neon red color. People can see those colors from a distance and know that you are open for business. You would probably be surprised at the number of people who pass by your business every single day and have no clue if you are open or not. The bright lights on the open neon sign attract the eye, so even if a potential customer had no clue that your business was there, the presence of an open neon sign would bring it to their attention. Once you get their attention, they are more likely to stop. Unfortunately many small business owners overlook this very simple tool that can add profit to their bottom line. Open signs are very affordable yet extremely effective. Stop wasting your money on newspaper and radio ads. Get the one thing that will cost less and work better then newspaper or radio. There is nothing better then on site advertising and that is exactly what an open sign is. It advertises your business to all of your potential customers with just one flick of a switch. Stop wrecking your brain trying to figure out how to get more customers in your store and simply invest in an open sign today. We have 18/10 Hampton silverware and Wolfgang Puck silverware. It’s good stuff. The Hampton silverware we machine was. The Wolfgang Puck silverware we wash by hand. And both sets are getting these brown splotches. It amazes me how many businesses I see everyday without an open sign. I often wonder do they realize just how much money they are letting slip through their hands. I once read a quote and it said, “A business with no sign is a sign of no business.” If you think about it, it is really true. If you are not letting people know you are open then you are probably not getting the maximum amount of customers coming into your store. Here are 2 reasons every small business needs an open sign: 1) It lets customers know your open – I cannot count the number of times I have passed up a business simply because I did not know if they were open or not. I did not want to take the time to get out of my car to go check and see. Is that lazy of me? Probably so, but just think of how many of your potential customers are thinking the exact same way. People do not like to be inconvenienced, and getting out of your car to walk up to a business that might or might not be open is an inconvenience. An open sign would eliminate your customers having to guess if you are open or not. 2) It invites them to come in – An open sign can also be an invitation that says, “Welcome, come right in.” You want your potential customers to feel welcome to come in your store. The more customers that come in your store the more money you will make. Open signs have been proven to increase traffic to small businesses. So if your if your looking for an inexpensive way to get more people in your store invest in an Open Sign today! One of the most exciting activities youâ??ll ever undertake is going through the process of identifying just the right business to open for yourself. As you explore the options youâ??ll find an unbelievable set of choices before you. As you narrow down to the final small group of alternatives, caution is needed. You must carefully examine all of the finalists to select the perfect business for you. In todayâ??s economic climate more and more entrepreneurs are viewing dollarstores as the perfect choice. But then the real work starts. There are so many tasks that must be done to prepare for opening a dollar store. Each one is critical in its own way. And each subsequent task builds on performing the previous task correctly. Get one step out of place and you will lose time. Youâ??ll be frustrated as you wait for that step to finally be completed so you can move on to the next. Donâ??t make missteps as you prepare to open your store. In this article I present tips to prepare for opening a dollar store. Treat the preparation process for opening a dollar store like it is a project. There are key steps that must be completed. There is an appropriate order for the completion of those steps. There is involvement by an assortment of resources and companies. All come together are create the dollarstore you are finally ready to open. Develop a master project plan including a project checklist to help with the management of your store opening. This is easy to do and it helps eliminate forgotten tasks and information about each task. List each of the most critical actions that must be taken in the appropriate order on your project plan. Include a designated owner for each action and a targeted completion date. For example painting the store location might be the responsibility of your landlord. There is likely an agreed date for completion. List all of that information at the right step on your project plan. Itâ??s then easy to monitor how things are progressing and whether there are delays that will impact other actions such as installing floor coverings or store display fixtures. Break the more complex tasks down into smaller, more easily performed tasks. If there are several key actions involved in a specific task, then break them out as separate actions under the label of the primary task. Ordering merchandise is a perfect example of this. Since you will likely be ordering merchandise from a large number of vendors it would help to break out each of the major orders onto your master project plan spreadsheet. You can then verify youâ??ve properly placed each order. Youâ??ll also be able to track deliveries against the planned arrival date. Check, check and double check your progress at opening a dollar store. As with any major project youâ??ll need to constantly track how things are progressing toward your dollarstore grand opening. If critical new tasks appear, add them to you master plan and begin tracking. As tasks are completed make sure all of the tasks awaiting that completion are moving forward. If tasks fall behind, make changes to allow you to catch up. Use you checklist to open your dollarstore as scheduled. To your success when opening a dollar store! Find out what steps you need to take when Opening a Dollar Store.
Product Description The 2009 Irish Open Golf Championship will take place at the Baltray Golf Club in County Louth, between May 14-17, 2009. It had been scheduled to be played for the third year running at the Adare Country Club, however, financial difficulties has prevented that from happening this year but the Baltray will still provide the perfect setting for this prestigious European Tour Event. Baltray however is no stranger to the Irish Open Golf Championship, having hosted the event in 2004, when Australian, Brett Rumford was victorious with an impressive score of 14 under par. The Championship was first played in 1927 and continued running for 23 years until 1950. Like many sports however, at that time, the tournament suffered from post war financial constraints and was discontinued until 1975. It has been a European Tour favourite ever since and some of the biggest names in European Golf history have won the tournament. The 2008 Irish Open was won by Englishman, Richard Finch, who famously fell into the lake when playing his second shot to the 18th green. Fortunately for him, before getting wet he managed to strike the ball on to the green, before putting out to win his second European tour event. Other famous winners have been Ireland’s favourite golfing son, Padraig Harrington, who won at the Adare Club in 2007, before going on to win his first golfing major, the British Open. He also won the British Open in 2008 and won his third Major a couple of months later when taking the PGA Championship in America. Harrington was the first Irish winner since John O’Leary won in 1982. Former US Open champion, Michael Campbell won the Irish Open in 2003, but there have been several Majors winners who have triumphed in Ireland. Nick Faldo, who won six Majors, famously won in Ireland three years in succession between 1991-1993. German Bernhard Langer won a record equalling four times between 1974-94. Five times Major winner, Seve Ballesteros has won three Irish opens while other winners have been Ian Woosnam (twice), Jose Maria Olazabla, Colin Montgomerie (three wins) and current world number three, Sergio Garcia. The O’Connors are famous Irish golfing names; Father, Christie, won the Irish Open a record four times, between 1964-72 and then his son, Christie O’Connor junior won in 1975. The field this year will be as illustrious as ever, featuring many world and European stars who will bid to join an astonishing Irish Open roll of honour. Favourite to win the tournament is likely to be Harrington as he looks to prepare to bounce back to Major form with both the US Open and British Open fast on the horizon over the next couple of months. However, with so many youngsters making breakthrouh’s this year, perhaps it will young Ulsterman, Rory McIlroy who may carry best Irish hopes on the back of a respectable 20th place finish at the US Masters in Augusta in April and will be looking to add to his first European Tour win, the Dubai Desert classic back in February. More information about the Irish Open Golf Tournament from Rod can be read at the site that he is a regular contributor at. |
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