Interested in opening a jewelry gallery or other specialty retail store?

Here's a great new read!

Karen Lorene, owner of Facere Gallery in Seattle, has started a blog based on her 3 decades of retailing experience. She intends for her information to be useful to ANY business and I'm sure it will be very useful to retailers and artisans, alike.

She writes in her first entries on her "Building a Business: Try This!" blog:

Chapter One: Build on What You Know

I assume you have a business dream. I also assume you have a bit of business knowledge because you more than likely grew up having had a lemonade stand, a retail summer job, you waitressed, you babysat, you shopped. That's how much business experience I had. If I can do it, you can do it!

Here's the beginning of thirty-seven years of experience in retail. I urge you to TRY THIS!
Let's get specific.

Start a list of what you have, what you need, what you want.

click here to read the whole blog entry.