CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Whether a: • Conventional brick n' mortar store in a strip mall or picturesque downtown started with some used records and used furniture • An online store on...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Sometimes, there may be no need for any kind of product at all beyond music itself. Particularly if you plan to work with local artists or within a specific genre of...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST In fact, having a tangible product at all may be unnecessary until you've made those first couple of sales. Canadian singer/songwriter Brad Turcotte offered free...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Of course, fledgling retail record stores properly bootstrapped need not even have inventory to succeed in the beginning. The technique of drop shipping allows you to...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST According to Microsoft, Office Live Basics includes: • free web hosting and domain name • User friendly design tools for your website • 500 MB of storage on your...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Ebay is one option for online start-up and even a couple old record collections volunteered by friends and relatives can be the beginning of an inventory. An uncle of...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Of course, some start-up record stores like CD Baby, Portland, oregon, have forgone a brick n' mortar location altogether in favor of a virtual store on the Internet....
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Also in his post entitled "Keeping-independent-record-stores-alive", music business coach Joe Taylor Jr. suggests: 3. Make it easy to do business. Offer online...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST In fact, music business coach Joe Taylor Jr. insists there are at least four ways an independent music retailer can compete successfully against the big chains. In a post...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Today, 26 years later, the company has grown to a chain of nine stores throughout Virginia and launched its own online music magazine 9X. That success may seem remarkable...
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If you think starting a local record store requires thousands in capital and deals with every large scale label and small independent record company on the planet, you're mistaken. Jim Bland and...
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Many bootstrapped businesses will be started in the home, some as part-time jobs until they develop real revenue. In fact, one site provided by Small Business and Government Grants Resources suggests...
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In conclusion, when managing your cash flow, Inc.com recommends: • Live without variable expenses • Set cost-cutting targets • Stretch business cash (to the limit) • Get paid (duh!) Starting...
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(Continued from the previous post) Maybe you don't generally think of hiring as a place to save money, but Inc.com suggests: • Keep hiring costs down • Find a recruiting niche • Grow with...
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Inc.com put together this big list of bootstrap ideas culled from across its massive website. The bursts of inspiration run the gamut from marketing and advertising to human resources, finance and...
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An article by Barabara Weltman in Bottom Line/Retirement suggests some guidelines for bootstrapping a business for less than $1,000 to see you through your retirement years. I'm not quite there...
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When looking for that money making idea, remember that saying about acorns and oaks. Sometimes simple opportunities can lend themselves to small start-ups making money needed to transform an idea...
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One further note on drop shipping. There's no need to find a conventional supplier for merchandise, and selling the same thing as every other site on the Internet or every other catalogue might...
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A while ago I promised readers a post on drop shipping and have been derelict in getting to it because of pressing business. Simply put, drop shipping is a technique allowing retail businesses to...
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We will be trying a new experiment here at Bootstrapme.com in the coming months. Borrowing from a comment noted earlier by Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo on a Venture Voice podcast, we will be using...
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Sure, they have become a means of personal expression to the world sharing with a global audience what we think and feel. However, the weblog, or simply "blog" as it is often called today,...
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About.com's small business information guide Darrell Zahotsky has this advice for those seeking a bootsrtrap solution to getting your message out. Think low-budget, high-impact marketing....
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No, bootstrapping is not limited to the IT, high tech or industrial sectors. In fact, a man named Mike McGroarty of Perry, OH, claims it's possible to make up to $3,421 in a day selling small...
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To commemorate the Fourth of July, here are 11 examples of entrepreneurs who achieved financial independence through bootstrapping as reported in this 1995 article in Inc.com. • In 1985, college...
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