Brick and Mortar Start Up… Inside Peek and Contrast To Home Based Business
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Entrepreneurship.
Being Your Own Boss.
Time and Financial Freedom.
Purpose Filled Life.
So what’s it take to get off the ground?
Work. Commitment. Enthusiam. Sacrifices. Decision. Marketing. Staying the course. Overcoming. Celebrating along the way.
Starting your brick and mortar
My family comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. We understand that freedom is in being your own boss. Employees build empires for entrepreneurs. Which do you want to be?
One of my sons, Andrew, and his wife Amanda Blake, a few months ago, made a decision to start a juice business. They had no funds for it, but rather a big dream. And where there’s a dream, there’s a way.
They went though a company called Kickstart to fund their dream.
This last weekend I went down to Alabama to the family and the work and dedication and planning are in full effect.
They have been working out of a commercial kitchen between 11 pm and 6 am. and working full time during the day… Doing whatever it takes to bring their dream lifestyle and passions to the front.
They have been going to stores and community events, the farmers markets, salons, doing public demos in parks, at athletic events, everywhere they can get in…to spread the word about their new business and the benefits of good health for their community. They are selling out everywhere they go.
They did a location study and found a high foot traffic area in a great town nearby to make sure they can been seen and is convenient. Across the street are cakeshops, famous BBQ, outdoor cafes, boutique stores and right next door is a successful bike shop where many health conscious cyclists come and go all day…
Here’s their picture in front of their new shop. It used to be a screen printing shop… now it’s going to be Sprout n Pour. They have lots to do to get it open and ready by July 1!
Walking the inside of the store to discuss build out. Did you know when you sign a lease for commercial space, YOU do the build out for whatever you want? Floors, walls, ceilings, kitchen space, etc? That’s not included. You get what already there and YOU bear the cost of any change ups. This is an open space with no kitchen or prep area and no flooring etc.
Creating the kitchen and prep space, office and seating space, bathroom space. Walls to kitchen will be windows so people can watch the cold press process as juices are being made. This will be awesome for schools and groups to tour and the community to learn.
The kids gave me a demo on how cold press juicing works and why it’s the best for you.
This is one of the machines they use and brought home for the weekend to show me.
They ONLY use the best and freshest and organic veggies from local Birmingham farms.
Cold-press juicing is a way to extract every good nutrient from the veggie and fruit and is very time consuming.
Ready to press
Cupful by cupful, they scoop one at a time into special juicing clothes
These pulp/juice clothes are then folded and placed into their cold press juicing machine.
As the pressor squeezes the wraps, the juice with all it’s micro-nutrients comes pouring out.
What’s left is the pulp, almost dry. Feels like a piece of felt. This is disposed of or can be used in recipes.
It’s bottled. This is just a home demo for me. But at their commercial kitchen, they are bottled and labeled and put on ice.
They have a blend they have called “spring” and it’s their best seller. That’s the recipe they made me for the demo.
A toast! To their success!
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Entrepreneurship and Success is a decision
There’s no free rides in business. You’ve got to work hard and smart my friends. You’ve got to truly have a vision for yourself and your business and your WHY has to be huge!
The other thing is to consider your cost difference between opening a brick and mortar vs that of a home based internet marketing business.
When you consider the upfront costs for this particular brick and mortar even…….
secure a lease
hire employees
buy equipment
build out your commerical space
deal with licensing and permits
buy your product
create your product
hours spent in community outreach and awareness
to that of my home based internet marketing business…
1) Join an online program that teaches people how to do internet marketing
2) Offer that product online
3) Become a study of the product so you know how to market
4) Not tied to location, store hours, employees not showing up, insurance, stocking products, the works….
It’s amazing.
I love what I do.
They love what they do.
Different stokes for different folks but we are both living our passions.
My start up is the product I buy to learn how to market and my advertising.
Their start up is all that plus their lease, build out, wages, insurance, produce, bottles and jars, and a whole bunch of other things.
But they are following their heart.
I love what I do because I can up and go anytime, work from anywhere and heck… help them out at their store while my business works on automatic.
What is your Business Preference?
If you’d like to live the internet lifestyle, join with me right here and we’ll get you going.
To Your “No Boss” Lifestyle…
Debbie Turner