Specialty Shop Retailing: How to Run Your Own Store Revised
Author: Carol L. Schroeder
List Price: $27.95
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ISBN: 0471212644
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (15 August, 2002)
Sales Rank: 2,568
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Must Read for the shop owner 'newbie'
I read this book while I was writing my first business plan (ever) for a gourmet shop. When combined with a good plan outline and appropriate market research this book will be all you need to finish a plan that the bank will love! When the Small Business Admin. reviewed my work they told me to get to the bank QUICK because I had a great plan with a solid base of research and strategies. The info in this book was part of the plan's foundation.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Pretty good book but Retail Business Kit for Dummies better
Let me start by introducing myself and explaining an apparent potential conflict of interest...I'm a CPA in Redmond, WA and am always on the lookup for resources that I can suggest to clients. I have quite a few independent retail clients and so was interested in this book.
I also happen to be the author of QuickBooks for Dummies and Quicken for Dummies.
Okay, all that said, I think Carol Schroeder's book is a pretty good one. The book has lots of good information for the independent retailer or the prospective independent retailer. (As you can see, I gave it four stars!) But I really think that the Retail Business Kit for Dummies is a better book. There's more information in the Dummies book and it's an easier read.
One final comment: Before you say to yourself, "Hey, he's just recommending another Dummies book, that's bogus!" let me point out that both the Dummies series of books and "Specialty Shop Retailing" are published by the same company, John Wiley & Sons.
Maybe the thought I'll leave you with is this: If you're interested in learning more about starting and running a successful retail store, read Retail Business Kit for Dummies first... then, if you want more information and have time for another book, read Specialty Shop Retailing. You will get good information in the Shroeder book that isn't in the Dummies book.
Steve
Rating: 5 out of 5
Specialty Shop Retail
Took notes throughout the book! Even though I've owned the business for three years I gleaned lots of invaluable information from the experience of Orange and her husband. Would recommend to anyone in retail--new to it or an "old hat." Similar Products
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