By jeremyj - 10/06/2012 00:24 - United States

Today, is the third day since I opened my small coffee shop. My parents had given me a nice frame to put my first dollar from working in. I had to sneak in a dollar from my own wallet so they wouldn't know how bad business was when they came to visit. FML
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Same thing different taste

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Maybe you need to rethink your business plan.

Things will pick up. Just need a few people to spread the word

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You need to look up Dave Ramsey. I opened a small business and that talk show host and author has all sorts of excellent info about running a business. Can't highly recommend his book Entreleadership enough. It's a absolute must read for business people! Guarantee it will help you out!

If you came to my little backwater town, your business would be booming with high schoolers.

Have a free coffee sampling day, advertise the heck out of it... Then sell people small bags of the same stuff you're sampling, but make the bags more expensive than just coming in and buying a cup so that people will overvalue the coffee and be inclined to come back as soon as their tiny bags run out.

It's going to start off slow before picking up. The key is to getting the word out, so advertise, give out free samples and coupons.