 Introducing myself
I posted a little on another area but thought I should put this here.
I should give a little rundown perhaps. I hate to say it and get bashed but I recently purchased a video store that has been in business for 17 years in a small town in Ohio. There is only 1 tanning facility that is combined with a hair/nail salon about 5 miles from me and they only offer 2 choices of beds both have 100 watt bulbs. My demographics are great with 95% white and about 19,000 people within a 5 mile radius.
The video store itself smelled terrible (due to smoking in it for years) so I painted everything, landlord replaced the carpet and I built 5 rooms with some extra space and I now have 4 tanning beds almost ready to roll next week and have been working on this for 2 months. I hung LCD TV's on the walls and made it look modern and new although the store itself was doing well for the previous owner who is now 73 years old and was ready to retire. I have very little invested and hope that my wife can earn a little money and have some fun. Our business is in between a large hardware store and a grocery store in a small strip mall that sits beside our kids middle school and in front of a newly built high school that opens up next year.
I have recieved some much needed advice from Sunsally (Ann Noe) and George from Prosun (thanks for the demo report) as well as many others on the site.
My business name is Colony Video II and River Valley Tanning.
Neal |