Diane.White0529

You can cut some employee stuff if you have family willing to work there... Just saying... We live 5 minutes from where we want ours... When we open ours, it'll be me, my husband, and my two daughters... Between us we'll be able to cover all the ours and said off and since it'll be all family owned and operated, I've been told as long as we all have private insurance, we don't need all the workers comp stuff... Don't need an accountant so long as you know how to work something like QuickBooks... Square has pretty good options for card reading services and if you're going to hire outside help, even has online work hours tracking as they login for work on the square terminal... Think it'll pay them and all if I remember right... I would also suggest you do your employees as contract workers... Send a 1099 instead of dealing with taking taxes, providing insurance and so on if you don't want the extra cost... I'm an OCD nut with organization and why I know all that... Yeah it's being kinda an a*****e about insurance and workers comp but at the same time saves you from lawsuits by employees... And I only say this as I know a business owner who had an employee that supposedly hurt herself 13 times in 3 months and sued him, winning a small fortune, even though he had camera evidence that showed she "hurt" herself on purpose... He ended up selling his business to pay it off... Is why I say look into using contracted employees

One idea might be to do a poll in town... Can create one online with Google forms for free or if your town has a city fb that you can post on, can create a poll there... Could tell you not only how many people would be all for it for perhaps a general idea of what customers you might have and you could also include a "what type of tackle would you want to be sold there" and might get some ideas of what you would specifically sell there for the locals... Just an idea though... We're considering opening a store here as well cuz there's not one for like 45 minutes away and Walmart only carries just so much and our lake manager asked us to... The polling is an idea I had... Where I live and because of us wanting to put it at the lake, I have to talk to the mayor first so I want a full idea of what kind of profit because I'm going to offer a percentage of profit to the city to compensate us putting it out there... Rarely do you find a bait shop that's right next to the lake