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How Copying Canadian Tire Can Help Grow Your Small Business Big Time
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| Canadian Tire CEO Stephen Wetmore is growing his “smart stores” Some store sales have grown between six and eight per cent, and some departments have more than doubled.
You can grow your retail business by copying some of his proven ideas. Here’s how: |
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You Can Never Be Too Good Looking, Too Slim, Have Too Much Storage
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| If you were one of the fortunate few who got his/her iPad 2 lord it over the other folks who are waiting for ...something else. Of course they and you also carry around your smartphone, notebook, other mobile devices. They're too important not to be without...and the information they hold. Good thing is all that data, content you're creating doesn't make the things weigh any more except when you have to get a few external hard drives to carry it all. Who knew you just had to have 8-10 four drawer filing cabinets of stuff with you but...you do. Could put all the content at home but that's getting pretty full. Could put it in the cloud but that's a little scarey. All storage people can say is thank you for creating, storing, sharing.
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Storage Business Opportunities For The Organized Franchisee
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| For the left-brained, super-organized business professional, the idea of clutter around the workplace or the home is a grim thought indeed, so a welcome idea for a new business opportunity may be a storage business. Storage franchises are much more than just storage rental facilities, there are franchises available for everything from closet systems to garage organization, and for the right entrepreneur with a knack for organization, these franchises can really help you clean up. |
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Recession Proof Real Estate
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| They’re often called recession-proof – steady investments that are inexpensive and easy to maintain with consistent profit margins.
Not to mention, they’re one area of real estate that seems mostly unaffected, if not helped, by current rough market conditions.
They’re storage units and people always need them. And all across the country, with a growing population that provides a constant supply of people in transit and in need of storage, they’re shooting up everywhere. Storage facilities require relatively low building and management costs.
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Introduction to Self Storage Development
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| Self storage has seen some dramatic changes over the last few decades it has been in existence, especially in the last 15 years. In 1993, there were approximately 21,300 self storage facilities in the United States. Today, that number has more than doubled, with industry experts reporting roughly 60,000 facilities. Those facilities comprise more than 1.7 billion rentable square feet of storage space. |
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Technology is So Passé … It’s All About Fashion
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| We looked at the stuff at CES...at CTIA...at NAB...at all the shows and media
coverage. There was an epiphany (gotta love that word). The PC/CE/communications/content
industry isn't about technology...it's fashion! It's what's hot...what's not.
Notebooks...no netbooks...no smartphones...no ebooks...no tablets. Local storage...centralized
storage...personal storage...cloud storage. Your next product, service can be
hot, cold, dead in a month. We flip faster than skirts rise and fall. There are
no bold , ah ha predictions here but at least you'll know why you change phones,
computers (whatever) more often than you change cars. What's it gonna be tomorrow?
Don't ask the buying public(s)..invent it!!!! -- borrowed from John Doerr (come
on what do you think fashion is? Right creative borrowing!).
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Building a Self Storage Facility
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| All Across the United States, entrepreneurs are talking about the self storage business. The word is out that investing in the mini storage business can be very profitable. And it’s not just the experienced investors that have their eye on the Self Storage Business prize. With lower building and management costs than virtually all other real estate investments and a failure rate of around 7 percent, the self storage industry is drawing first-time business owners and investors alike. |
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Self Storage Feasibility Studies
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| So you’ve decided to get into the self-storage business by developing your own Self Storage Facility. Well the first step should be to locate a viable parcel of ground to develop. However, many investors find that determining an adequate site is a little more difficult than they imagined, and perhaps, should be done with the aid of an independent third party. Why? Because a feasibility study, conducted by a professional, will provide an in-depth analysis of the location to determine if it is viable for Self-Storage. |
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Franchises that Meet the Evolving Needs of a Mobile Society Prosper
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| With more people frequently relocating for personal and professional reasons, businesses that aid in the transition process are experiencing significant demand. In addition to moving companies, franchises that provide products and services like self-storage solutions and in-home care are meeting the needs of an increasingly mobile society. Zippy Shell, a mobile self-storage concept and FirstLight HomeCare, an in-home care franchise are among the opportunities featured on Franchise Solutions’ business directory that cater to the evolving needs of today’s consumers. |
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How I took my Storage Facility From 65% to 95%occupancy in 90 days.
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| I finally got word of this great business and was referred to someone in my home state of Indiana to talk with about the Industry. Scott Meyers of selfstorageinvesting dot com helped introduce me to the business. He then proceeded to teach me all there was to know on how to analyze and purchase existing self storage facilities. Now here I am a year later with one storage facility under my belt and ready to close my next one. |
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Storage -- Worry About It the Day After Tomorrow
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| We finished this analysis on storage types/applications over the weekend and Apple decided to finally talk about all their new devices and everyone (we mean everyone) jumped on the tablet bandwagon. We'll look at the area shortly but right now we can only say every bit of storage folks can make/ship is being used...then some! Right now let's look at the leading storage offerings -- flash, hard drive, clould (don't let em kid you the cloud is still hard drive). But only you can determine which storage option is best for you in each of your applications -- work in progress, valuable, super valuable, irreplaceable. Weigh the costs/risks and store accordingly. Don't wait till the Day After Tomorrow.
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Self Storage Investing Webinars Can Hold Valuable Tips
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| Self storage investing can be a difficult industry to get into. As with any real estate investing, it can be overwhelming at first to even begin to learn about all the rules, laws, and regulations that come with owning a self storage property. However, there are several great resources online that can help individuals learn about buying their first self storage property. Besides e-books and white papers about self storage investing, there are also webinars that can be great resources. |
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