tackle business

Would anybody care to comment on the trials, tribulations or rewards of
operating a tackle business (manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, service
provider).

First decide if you would "love" the business, second, decide if you
have the resources to survive the start up. If the ansewer is yes, yes,
then your "love" of the business should produce the dedication
neccessary for success.
Location, location, location g
JK

Occasionally, total morons will return things that they destroy and expect a
full refund in the spirit of "customer satisfaction". Fortunately, these idiots
typically frequent Walmart and only visit "mom and pop" tackle shops for free
advice while pretending to be an interested buyer.

Gone Angling wrote:
Would anybody care to comment on the trials, tribulations or rewards of
operating a tackle business (manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, service
provider).

Hi GA,

You won't be "Gone Angling" any more if you start your own small business.

You will be "Gone Working" or "Gone Worrying" or "Gone Crazy" or "Gone
Broke"?

You need to have something very small or very big or very different to
survive in small business in the US today.

"Very small" - this mean something that is on your own property or out of a
building that is almost free to use, with no employees by your folks, wife
and kids.

"Very big" - this means at least 5 or more large high volume well placed
shops with a manager in each who probably has to make almost as much as you
do.

"Different" - this means a small, well placed "bait-n-tackle" or "fly shop"
that is on the way out of town to a good fisheries or near a good fisheries.
These little shops with gasoline, bait, tackle, marine supplies, fast
food/deli and a mini mart can be deadly. The big "box stores" can't compete
here.

In time there will be multiple box stores in all large cities. They will
sell most of the large ticket items, so you need to sell the terminal
tackle, bait, flies, ice, etc with good fishing information thrown in free.

Expenses like rent, utilities, yellow page adds, insurances, self employment
tax, Worker Comp Ins, wages, benefits, professional services, office
equipment, signs, office supplies and tenant improvements are all getting
higher every year in America and especially in California.

Some people are successful at anything they do, so the only thing that
matters is the fact that they are interested in it.

A tackle shop is good for one guy that love people and know the business and
another guy that is a retired "brain surgeon" with about 5 mil his wife
doesn't know about so he can afford to pour into a fun small business.


--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Gone Angling" wrote in message
...

Would anybody care to comment on the trials, tribulations or rewards of
operating a tackle business (manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, service
provider).

Obviously spoken from experience. Bill, if your shop is half as nice as
your website I'm sure you're one of the guys that does quite well in the
tackle business.

Warren

"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
. ..
Hi GA,

You won't be "Gone Angling" any more if you start your own small business.

You will be "Gone Working" or "Gone Worrying" or "Gone Crazy" or "Gone
Broke"?

You need to have something very small or very big or very different to
survive in small business in the US today.

"Very small" - this mean something that is on your own property or out of
a
building that is almost free to use, with no employees by your folks, wife
and kids.

"Very big" - this means at least 5 or more large high volume well placed
shops with a manager in each who probably has to make almost as much as
you
do.

"Different" - this means a small, well placed "bait-n-tackle" or "fly
shop"
that is on the way out of town to a good fisheries or near a good
fisheries.
These little shops with gasoline, bait, tackle, marine supplies, fast
food/deli and a mini mart can be deadly. The big "box stores" can't
compete
here.

In time there will be multiple box stores in all large cities. They will
sell most of the large ticket items, so you need to sell the terminal
tackle, bait, flies, ice, etc with good fishing information thrown in
free.

Expenses like rent, utilities, yellow page adds, insurances, self
employment
tax, Worker Comp Ins, wages, benefits, professional services, office
equipment, signs, office supplies and tenant improvements are all getting
higher every year in America and especially in California.

Some people are successful at anything they do, so the only thing that
matters is the fact that they are interested in it.

A tackle shop is good for one guy that love people and know the business
and
another guy that is a retired "brain surgeon" with about 5 mil his wife
doesn't know about so he can afford to pour into a fun small business.


--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Gone Angling" wrote in message
...

Would anybody care to comment on the trials, tribulations or rewards of
operating a tackle business (manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, service
provider).

Sorry. No time to comment. Too busy.

--
Bob Rickard
www.secretweaponlures.com
--------------------------=x O')))


"Gone Angling" wrote in message
...
Would anybody care to comment on the trials, tribulations or rewards of
operating a tackle business (manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, service
provider).

The good part is you get all your tackle wholesale. The bad part is that it
still costs you more than you would pay for it at Walmart.
Mark McCoybr
McCoy's Market Bumpus Mills, Tennesseebr
http://www.mccoysmarket.com

MMccoy01 wrote:
The good part is you get all your tackle wholesale. The bad part is
that it still costs you more than you would pay for it at Walmart.
Mark McCoybr
McCoy's Market Bumpus Mills, Tennesseebr
http://www.mccoysmarket.com


I boycott Wal-Mart and everyone who believes in small business and the
American Dream should also.

Here are a few reasons why:

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3044wal-mart.html

When your stuck on the Mountain and out of hooks, guess where I go? The
mountain wal-mart.
"SHRED©" wrote in message
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MMccoy01 wrote:
The good part is you get all your tackle wholesale. The bad part is
that it still costs you more than you would pay for it at Walmart.
Mark McCoybr
McCoy's Market Bumpus Mills, Tennesseebr
http://www.mccoysmarket.com


I boycott Wal-Mart and everyone who believes in small business and the
American Dream should also.

Here are a few reasons why:

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3044wal-mart.html

Sounds like it should be small (and stay small) and something different. It
will only be fun if you have some dough stored away that you don't mind
throwing at it. In other words you are prepared to sustain a loss.
Suppose you don't take a war games attitude to it and approach it much like
angling itself. In any case i do believe that it can be done and a gone angling
type of life can happen too.