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re: What New Business Does Your Town Need?
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:42 pm to derSturm37
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:42 pm to derSturm37
My wife and I own a successful retail business. As for ideas, it's really not hard. Take inventory of what businesses your area has and identify what it's missing. There is always a market that isn't be served for you to make a living on.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel or build a better mouse trap. Provide good service, good prices, and you should be fine. Perhaps find a franchise in another town you feel would be successful there. One of the more successful businesses to come into our area is a franchise butcher shop. The owner knew our area needed such a business (there wasn't one here) and he wasn't a butcher. He found a franchise and now he runs the most successful location in the company.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel or build a better mouse trap. Provide good service, good prices, and you should be fine. Perhaps find a franchise in another town you feel would be successful there. One of the more successful businesses to come into our area is a franchise butcher shop. The owner knew our area needed such a business (there wasn't one here) and he wasn't a butcher. He found a franchise and now he runs the most successful location in the company.
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Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:46 pm to derSturm37
A gym.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:52 pm to Aubie Spr96
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My wife and I own a successful retail business. As for ideas, it's really not hard. Take inventory of what businesses your area has and identify what it's missing. There is always a market that isn't be served for you to make a living on.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel or build a better mouse trap. Provide good service, good prices, and you should be fine. Perhaps find a franchise in another town you feel would be successful there. One of the more successful businesses to come into our area is a franchise butcher shop. The owner knew our area needed such a business (there wasn't one here) and he wasn't a butcher. He found a franchise and now he runs the most successful location in the company
Thanks. I appreciate it.
Pinpointing that underserved market is where I'm at right now. I've done it before; not having any platinum epiphanies here lately.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:54 pm to derSturm37
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Are there Braum's in Houston, yet?
I am pretty sure there arent. I lived right near one when i lived in Fort Worth. I remember the first time i went inside, i found it odd that it was a burger ice cream place that also sold a few odd and end grocery items.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:54 pm to tWildcat
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A gym.
A guy just opened up a huge one near here. No telling how much he sank into it. Big high dollar signs all over the building. I'm keeping an eye on it; I don't expect it to work out for him. Do they ever?
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:57 pm to derSturm37
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Do they ever?
I would be scared to open a gym. I researched Anytime Fitness once and came away unimpressed from an owning stand point. Perhaps a boxing gym (marketed as fitness more than boxing) or cross fit but only if your community is missing one. The great thing about those type businesses is that you can get a cheap store front.
This post was edited on 3/1/15 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:02 pm to derSturm37
We had one open up a couple towns over and he is doing real well it seems. Location really helped him though. He bought a building between a high school and small college so he gets a lot of younger people.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:06 pm to derSturm37
Warrensburg, MO, needs a Starbuck's, a Target, a Buffalo Wild Wings, and a mall 
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:06 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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The great thing about [a gym] is that you can get a cheap store front.
That's true. And it's the right kind of thinking. A cheaper lease is definitely high on my list. I'd much prefer to spend the savings on the interior. No parfum parlors here.
I'd really like to hit the 20-somethings. Something they need that no one has given them. Not a gym though. I think that, due to human nature (interpersonal squabblings) the cool gym becomes the lame gym overnight. This too often.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:09 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Warrensburg, MO, needs a Starbuck's, a Target, a Buffalo Wild Wings, and a mall
Haha. Maybe caffeine on the left, alcohol on the right, and wings in the middle?
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:11 pm to derSturm37
Just an idea. If you did want to gym you could research actually making a dance studio with other type equipment used for body pump/ excercise type equipment. Market it towards women and bring in different teachers to run different programs, ballet, yoga, body pump, pilates, jazz, etc. They build the clients and rent the time. I dont know how business practical it is but its an idea.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:15 pm to derSturm37
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caffeine on the left, alcohol on the right, and wings in the middle?
Me likey
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:15 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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I am pretty sure there arent [Braums in Houston]. I lived right near one when i lived in Fort Worth. I remember the first time i went inside, i found it odd that it was a burger ice cream place that also sold a few odd and end grocery items.
Looked it up: Braums is not a franchise. Every store is owned by the Braums family. Damn.
This post was edited on 3/1/15 at 11:16 pm
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:16 pm to derSturm37
Snowboard shop
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:25 pm to derSturm37
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Braums is not a franchise. Every store is owned by the Braums family. Damn.
Didn't know that.
Braum's is good stuff. Wish we had it up here.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:42 pm to derSturm37
LINK
Example.
This guy retired from Boeing and went to Italy and studied meat curing. He came back and opened this store providing products that previously were unavailable.
Take a good idea from somewhere else and bring it to your town.
Example.
This guy retired from Boeing and went to Italy and studied meat curing. He came back and opened this store providing products that previously were unavailable.
Take a good idea from somewhere else and bring it to your town.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:49 pm to derSturm37
WhirlyBall
Posted on 3/2/15 at 12:00 am to Aubie Spr96
I'm actually learning meat curing now. I lived in Europe for a while and literally none of the cured meats here taste remotely close. Due to our laws they can't ship cured meats without being pasteurized, and that kills all the good flavors that make it unique. A good charcuterie shop would kill in Houston or Dallas. You'd get enough European clientele to sustain biz until Americans got into it. And given the artisan craze going on now, that wouldn't take long at all.
This post was edited on 3/2/15 at 12:01 am
Posted on 3/2/15 at 12:15 am to SwayzeBalla
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Snowboard shop
Yes, the skiers of Houston, Texas are pretty much SOL at present.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 12:17 am to TheCheshireHog
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WhirlyBall
Had to look it up. Looks awesome. You open it and I will be there.
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