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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 built s...
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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 ind...
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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 dow...
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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 ma...
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According to Microsoft, Office Live Basics includes:
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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 mi...
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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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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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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 pos...
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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 remarkabl...
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