From: "The Party People Shop" <PartyPeople@bigpond.com>
To: "Luis & Pamela Ramos" <WILDABOUTBALLOONS@prodigy.net>,
Subject: Re: Square Footage
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:06:12 +1100

How does one answer this question with honesty and with integrity.
I do believe that you really start as a child,crawling, walking, running
sprinting,then comes district state and country and finally the major league
if not the Olympics .
Most of us started that way,and some go on to bigger and better things,
others fall by the way side and blame everyone and anyone but them selves.
The main intern is money or capital, how much do you have,what`s more how
much are you prepared to loose.
I would think the most successful business have all the right equipment but
that is usually acquired over a period of time as they grew and saw what was
needed to preform certain tasks. Incidentally a labour saving device is not
a rich old widow, but the item that preforms that certain task easier and
quicker.In the growing stages you might have to change many courses to find
to right tact that you wish to follow,and not all changes are success full
in not pain full in the way of dollars going out of you pocket, and the
heart aches.
We have three computers the each do certain tasks, three printers, fax
machine copier 4 cars  and 5 mobile phones and this is only the start of
what we require, the list is so long, and what I should be doing this Sunday
is entering all owe stock for our pos system where I am trying to enter over
5000 items, but your question to e-mail got the better of me.
I could tell you more and should require this please fell to ask the
questions direct or indirect.
I only wish that I knew what I know now when we first started 14 yrs .
Good Luck.

Peter J. Nikolas The Party People Syd.Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: Luis & Pamela Ramos <WILDABOUTBALLOONS@prodigy.net>
To: Balloon Deco list <balloondeco@fooledya.com>
Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2000 1:30
Subject: Square Footagetage


>Hi out there!  We are preparing to open a store front and are curious about
>what size store everyone started out with.  I was thinking about 2500-3000
>to start with but would love to here from everyone out there what the pros
>and cons are you experienced when you opened up and or expanded.  Also, we
>are looking into register systems, p.o.s. systems, general store layouts
and
>any setting up advice you have.  Thanks for your help and you can email me
>privately if you want.  I appreciate the information.
>Pamela Ramos
>Wild About Balloons
>Anchorage, Alaska, USA
>wildaboutballoons@prodigy.net
>
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