The world of Cope Occurrences
Our main competition moved to a new location. Being the successful business men that they are, they have a small sign at the old location saying that they moved. The sign doesn’t provide any information on the new location or even provide a phone number. You can only see the sign from one direction as […]
We got a bit of interesting news from a customer this last Saturday. It turns out that our local competition, Dapco Hobbies, has gone up for sale. I like to think that it is because of our awesome management of our store, but more than likely it is more the mis-management of theirs. With the […]
I’ve been to the doctor several times in the last few months. I have extremely high blood pressure and it was under control with a medication I was taking. After about being on this medication for about a year, my feet and legs started to swell. Sometimes this is an indication that you have had […]
We finally got on offer on our house that we accepted! So, we were ready to move forward with the HobbyTown Franchise. The buyers had the house inspected and we had a few items that we needed to have fixed. One problem that I had was the inspector was a complete dork that didn’t know […]
We hired a company to move our stuff to Idaho Falls. But after the movers had left, we still had a fair amount of stuff that needed to be moved but they couldn’t take. Some of the stuff was gas and the like that they weren’t allowed to take because it was flamable, some was […]
1. I enjoy spending time with my family. Talon is a riot, I just love his sweet innocent nature. I sure wish I had his energy. 2. I always mean to send a note or call to keep in touch but never seem to get around to it. 3. I’m glad that computers are a […]
Well, I’m happy to say that after having been in business for ourselves for a year, we were able to purchase a house of our own! We were told by the bank when we first opened our business that it would be two years before we would be able to get financing for a house. […]
We put our house on the market when we were looking at the QuikDrop franchise. Fortunately, we weren’t able to get the house sold before both of the QuikDrop stores went out of business. Talk about dodging a bullet! Not only would we have been putting the store into a smaller area, we would have […]
The whole idea of starting our own business came about while Stacia and I were taking our daily walks. During this time, the housing market was way up and people were buying and selling houses like they were trading collectible cards. Stacia and I would talk about a lot of things, but one of the […]
I decided that I wanted to keep a record of our experience, buying and then working on setting up a small business franchise called HobbyTown USA. Hopefully I can provide a little insight into what it takes to setup your own business.