SUCCESS IN STORE
How to Start or Buy a Retail Business, Enjoy Running It and Make Money

by Geoffrey Heard and Gordon Woolf

with an introduction by Dick Smith

Here are some useful links for retailers and would-be retailers: This is just a taste, as we will have a lot more soon. Bookmark this page to return.

What has been happening in your part of the retail industry in the USA. Here is a table of figures for each category for each year from 1992 to 2001: <http://www.census.gov/svsd/retlann/view/table2.txt> Check out <http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/artstbl.html> for a lot more info, some almost up to the current tyear.

Gateway to Associations: A searchable database with links to 6500 associations. <http://www.asaenet.org/cda/asae/associations_search/1,3200,MEN3,00.html>

And if you want a lesson in how not to run a store, here is the text of that infamous Norwegian parrot sketch from Monty Python.

Florida Entrepreneurs Resource Page

Starting a business in Florida

Business Information Guides (Canada)

Business Entry Point - a useful starting point for new businesses in Australia

CCH Small Business Guides

How anti-shoplifting devices work

VisualStore -- Retail Design and Visual Merchandising Resource

The Small Business School has a lot of general information, particularly in the retail section (click on "industries" at the top, then select retail).

StartupJournal -- The Wall Street Journal's startup site for entrepreneurs

RetailWire -- discussion forum on new retail issues

Business Owners' Idea Cafe -- There are many web sites which purport to offer help for those new to business, but one which seems to deliver is this one, which has been going since 1995. The forums are active with a good number of useful answers.

How to Start and Operate your own Southwest Store and Trading Post: In this free online book Dusty and Bonnie Henson, owners of the El Paso Saddleblanket Co. in Texas tell how to start in the specific business of "Cowboy, Indian, Mexican and Mountain Man" supplies. But it gives a lot of general information too. Naturally they push the idea of buying stock from them, just a little.

There is quite a useful retail glossary on the About.com site.

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