How to start a fish store?
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If you ever want to make any money plan on doing all or most of the work yourself. You will need to work evenings and weekends because this is when most people shop. Also plan on setting up a tank maintenance business as well if you ever want to make any $.
my friend just holds a fish store at his house!
haha if your house is big enough and you got alot of space,
maybe you could just build a shelter for you fish and stuff and get a license for it.
haha if your house is big enough and you got alot of space,
maybe you could just build a shelter for you fish and stuff and get a license for it.
ilovearowanas;2609357; said:
This isn't a bad way to start out. I don't know what your housing accomodations are, but if you had the room you could build one of those steel building for cheap these days.. especially if you think of 12 months rent, and on top of that most places want a 3-5 year lease agreement. With your own building you don't have that, plus it would bring value to your home, also with a new steel building it would be easy to run the plumbing and when they poured your cement slab just have them pour a few extra walls and bingo you have yourself a new monster fish tank... it could easily be a few thousand gallons. Stock it wisely with fish that would bring customers in and you now have a great attraction. All while being on the edge of your property and if you were get out of the hobby and close up shop...
well now you have an awesome garage with a awesome tank. Any mans dream...
Good luck...
Iafishkeeper;2609395; said:This isn't a bad way to start out. I don't know what your housing accomodations are, but if you had the room you could build one of those steel building for cheap these days.. especially if you think of 12 months rent, and on top of that most places want a 3-5 year lease agreement. With your own building you don't have that, plus it would bring value to your home, also with a new steel building it would be easy to run the plumbing and when they poured your cement slab just have them pour a few extra walls and bingo you have yourself a new monster fish tank... it could easily be a few thousand gallons. Stock it wisely with fish that would bring customers in and you now have a great attraction. All while being on the edge of your property and if you were get out of the hobby and close up shop...
well now you have an awesome garage with a awesome tank. Any mans dream...
Good luck...
Sounds goodI have owned a store. a good rule of thumb is to take the largest estimate you have and double it, maybe even triple it. Takes a while for people to get to know your new store, so have plenty of $$$ in reserve for slow periods. It's probably a better idea to purchase an existing store, than to start a completely new one, especially in this economic environment. Sadly there are a lot of shops closing these days. An accountant can help with your business formation (at least where i'm from anyway). Also, be prepared to work 12h/7d a week.
Ya, i have tryed to find stuff on how to start fish stor eon gogle but no luck. I gonna "try" to not be like other lfs buy selling proper fish to people i know can handle and no people that do anything to sell. Ya i have heard the term " keep the bread and the butter fish to" ,that pretty true. Thanks alot for alot of those posts.
Anyone got any more information. Really looking for an average cost of seting one up?
Anyone got any more information. Really looking for an average cost of seting one up?
