Lease in Hand!! - My Journey to Opening a Store
SO EXCITED!!! After over 2 months from the day I first told the real estate agent I wanted to take the space I finally have a lease in hand.
So sorry I haven't been posting updates, it was such a painful and depressing process that I stopped thinking it would happen. Honestly I was at a point that talking about the store would make me upset since I had found the location and the landlord's attorney was taking forever to create a simple lease. It had me worried that this wasn't going to happen at all and I had cursed myself by talking about it before having the lease in hand.
Hooray :)) - this sounds good and I can read your happiness and relief. Congratulations to the lease!!! Your store sits in a cool building - I like the look from the outside. I'm sure it will look amazing from the inside as well when finished. I wish I would be near to help you to sort the comics ;) - but maybe it's better not as I might would end up reading more than sorting - haha.
My best wishes!!!
Honestly this is the biggest problem with getting my oldest Daughter to help. She wants to take like 50% of the comics she touches. I get hung up on some of the artwork and it pulls me in too...so can't really blame anyone for wanting to stop and read some of them. Plus as these are back issues there are a lot of cool story lines that I've been told to read, but wasn't into comics at the time. Now they are sitting in front of me, but no time to read them. Need to stay focused!
Can't wait to share some photos of the store. It's won't be crazy high end looking, but trying hard to be more then the average dumpy shop.
Haha yes, I can imagine the problem with your daughter. I did not read comics as a kid - I was only into books. But in my twenties, I had a comic addict as boyfriend and he introduced me into really cool comics. I loved to read them and I discovered that there is amazing art in comics.
Looking forward to see your photos of your shop.
Honestly I think it just takes getting introduced to comics for many people to get into them. They are written in a way to keep you hooked with lots of action and no book out there has the artwork of comics.
Aw man, I'm stoked for you. I can sense the excitement. I just went through all of this with my vintage store. We ended up using Square for POS, Hartford Mutual for business insurance, we built our website on Squarespace and used 4over.com for all signage and printing. Bags & Boxes we went generic at first and then found a couple thousand new bags at a yard sale of all places. If you have any questions about Square (POS) or Squarespace, I'm a pro ;)
@gomatthew are you on discord? Might have a few questions for you for sure. Also would like to take a look at your website to see what their platform allows for. A lot of my starting inventory is vintage toys and back issues/out of print stuff on the comic side so if it's working for your vintage items I'd bet it would work for me.
I love running into things at yard sales. Have found some of my best shipping supplies there...filled my entire 7 passenger suv with large bags of packing peanuts once for $10. Currently have a few thousand bubble mailers from one that I got for $15. Never know what you will find when you are driving around.
Dang.. I wish Steemit would give me pop up notifications.. sorry, just now seeing this. Right now we're doing a redesign on the website, but it's vintagetn.com. But they've got amazing tutorial videos:
Without using GINA I'd never keep up on replies to me and more important to mentions about me when someone tags me. What I used to do before I started using GINA was to look at my replies tab every day when I first logged in...it worked, but zero question getting notices is better.
I'm looking into some industry specific customer management software right now that is designed to manage subscriptions. This software is working on developing a POS system also, but isn't there yet. Their comic subscription software is great but without the POS it's a hard decision to go with them. The other one has it all, but none of it is great. Upside is they are also the supplier of the comics so their data is dead on and updated all day vs everyone has to use data feeds from them that update only daily. So many little details to think about...annoying for sure.
My last option is to go with the KISS approach and not pay for any software the first few months and see how things go. Then make some choices on these items once I'm up and running. Just know that customers hate change and once running I very easily can get to busy to actually implement new software.
Will look into the website info you gave there. Watched the first video and it looks very simple to work with.
Congrats on the lease signing, I know that has had you in knots for awhile. Looks like a nice brick and mortar front end. Insurances, the bane of everybody.
Thank you and yes it has been bothering me for a while now.
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