Some may say that you need to learn how to manage the little things more before you decide to move on up to larger scale projects that’s guaranteed to drive you towards lunacy. That applies to every professional setting as well, and no just because you wrote “multitasking” on your first resume doesn’t mean you can actually do it. That’s just having a bad attention span. In Big Ambitions you do the exact same thing, only less punishing since you can easily reload a save to get your money back. In this guide we’ll make sure that you’ll be confident enough to leave your small gift shop behind and have a little bit of extra cash before moving on to your next venture.
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Generally speaking, all shops can make enough of a profit when you sell secondary items to supplement your main inventory. The more product you can shoehorn into a store then the better, no customer will visit a gift shop to only buy flowers, but if what you’re selling is good enough they’ll probably buy a few more things on the way out!
The first thing you need to remember when running your gift shop, or any business for that matter, is to make sure your customer comes back, you don’t have to recognize them, just hearing the register open is more than enough. This would be the perfect time to open your Bizman to look at satisfaction, keeping everything in the green is what you should be after to keep the bread coming in.
You can easily increase your interior satisfaction by laying down the most expensive flooring you can find in the designer, you’d be surprised how something so gaudy can attract so many people with disposable income to come your shop. This is the same deal with the flooring along with the other bits and pieces of furniture you can get your hands on.
Next is cleanliness, a flashy interior can’t do you any good if you don’t clean up after the local window shoppers. Buy yourself a cleaning station and get busy once the store is closed or if it’s a slow day. Just interact with it in the backroom and walk around your store until you reach 100% cleanliness. Naturally you’re going to want to hire someone to do this for you in the future, and if you do be sure they receive the proper training.
For pricing you’re going to have to get a feel for how much money your customer’s are willing to spend, so yeah at first this means you will lost a little bit of money while experimenting, but when you hit that sweet spot and see those pricing numbers crawl towards 100% then you know you’re doing something right. This is why graphs are you best friend, as long as you pay attention to the data you’ll recover from your losses in no time.
Since you’ll be managing other shops soon you’re going to have to hire a few extra hands to do the heavy lifting. You can do this by heading over to the nearest recruitment agency and have someone sent over to your place of business to begin working. But you don’t want them to begin working immediately, that will have to wait since you still need to train them!
Interact with your employees by clicking on ‘MyEmployees’ on your phone and make sure to have them unassigned for the duration of your training. You’ll see their wants and demands here as well, be sure to give whatever they want so they’ll actually enjoy working for you for a change.
This is where the shoehorning comes in, always make sure that there’s a good chance of you making an extra profit out of your customers. If their primary goal is to walk into your store to buy something expensive then put some cheap items on the shelf next to it and watch them mindlessly grab what they can.
This can only happen if you follow the steps mentioned before, your store needs to be in tip-top shape if you want to squeeze every penny out of whatever walks through your doorstep. Trial and error is your friend, but once you figure out what works your gift shop will end up on a Fortune 500 list eventually!
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