How To Start A Successful Snow Cone Business

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With summertime here, you have probably started driving by lots of snow cone places - and if you are a savvy businessperson, you have probably noticed that some of these places are consistently swarming with people, and have probably at least considered starting one such business of your own. However, before you actually start a snow cone business, it is also important for you to recognize and acknowledge the fact that for every incessantly busy snow cone place you see, you also drive by at least one other snow cone place that has no customers at all - which, of course, brings up the pure and simple truth that there are some core secrets to starting a successful snow cone business.

One of your biggest factors for success will be location - but your snow cone place cannot just be in a place where a lot of people will see it; your snow cone place will also have to be in a place where people can easily turn into it, park, and head back out, all without any inconvenience!

Once you have picked a location (the parking lot of a shopping plaza is always a great place to think about), you should also realize that you will need to make "good snow cones"; as any high schooler can tell you, "good snow cones" mean that you will need to have lots of different flavors, and each snow cone should have a more-than-generous amount of flavoring!

Finally, creating name recognition and brand loyalty will be immensely important, and since high school students are the ones most likely to visit your snow cone stand, you should market aggressively at their schools, stirring up the idea that your snow cone place is not only a good place for a snow cone, but is also a cool hangout spot!

By following these steps, it should be easy for you to create a loyal following of high school students - and of course, this means that you should have no problem creating lines at your snow cone place, which will continue to bring in more and more customers!

Tips For Making Money By Shopping At Garage Sales

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You begin to realize that opportunities to make money exist in great abundance, as soon as you get in the habit of looking for these opportunities. And selling used items online is certainly at the top of the list when it comes to big, easy, profitable ways to make a bit of extra money. And while you might not have piles of useful used items laying around your own house, you can usually find great stuff for sale by others! As you begin to visit garage sales and yard sales, you will find that lots of people sell useful items for "get rid of it" prices - items you can sell for more on eBay!

When it comes to shopping at garage sales to make some extra money, the first key is to start with a small-scale operation. Your eBay seller rating is important, so if you start out selling a lot of little items, you will be able to build a solid eBay seller rating early on. The best way to approach the start of your foray into eBay is to start with a small, one-time investment for shopping at garage sales, and this investment will eventually pay you back, and you can use the profits to buy more stuff. Start with about $50, buying lots of smaller items; you can double or triple this money, pay your investment back to yourself, and then use only this money for your garage sale shopping from that point forward!

Once your investments begin to pay off, and you have a reservoir of extra money and a seller rating that is solid, you can begin to branch into some higher-priced items. The biggest key here is research; just because you might think something will sell for a high price does not mean it will! Learn to be proactive instead of reactive in your garage sale shopping, knowing what you are looking for before you head out there!

Finding items that others want and making these items available for auction is really all there is to making money on eBay. And once you become more and more of a pro at finding items people will want, your small investment will start to seriously grow.

Hiring Dependable Employees

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Hiring dependable employees will be one of the most important aspects of maintaining success as a business, regardless of whether you own a small business or are in charge of hiring for a much larger organization; of course, “hiring dependable employees” can often be far more difficult than it sounds. The necessary process for hiring dependable employees will vary slightly from situation to situation, as each business is certainly its own unique animal, but if you follow these tips, you will be on the right path to making sure the employees you hire will be dependable and worth keeping around for a long period of time.

When interviewing a prospective employee, many people make the mistake of focusing on their past employment history and on their credentials, but while these things are already listed in the prospective employee's resume, one thing you can really only get a good feel for in person is the employee's character; focus on character as much as possible in your interview, devising questions that will help you to get a good feel for what the interviewee's character is like.

Another thing that will be helpful is that you do a background check on the people you are interviewing; some companies choose to skip this step because of the cost of doing a background check on so many different people, but this is an important step in the hiring process, and it is well worth the money you will spend.

And of course, it is also worth your time to call the interviewee's former employers; while calling the references is a fine thing to do, you can pretty well assume that they will not put down a reference if that reference will say something negative about them, but calling their former employers will give you a much better picture of what they will be like as an employee of yours.