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Originally Posted by Xaios
My two cents:
First cent...
I think, once you've chosen a name, you should pitch it to the community and see what kind of website designs we can come up with. I've been making websites for about 7 years, and have a decent amount of experience with server scripting and databases as well (although, admittedly, I've never worked with e-commerce).
Second cent...
Like everyone here, I find the concept of one of the community's members opening a high end boutique store a pretty damn noble pursuit, but I must stress this point: don't forget the little man. You can't have ALL high end stuff, because lets face it, 90% of guitar sales are cheap beginner guitars. It only makes good business sense to have some cheaper models on hand. Having said that, you will have to strike a balance, as you don't want 12 year old "ZOMG I CAN PLAY SMOKE ON TEH WADER!!!" kids overrunning the store and killing all of your nice stuff. Second reason why, is because almost all of us started small. My first guitar was a cheap mexi-strat, but it put me on the path of righteousness, so to speak. Perhaps you could even talk with that Kurt fellow from Rondo and see if you could get some distributing for some of his cheaper guitars, they seem to be a better value than most inexpensive guitars.
Of course, take everything I say with a grain of salt, because, obviously, I've never opened a guitar store. 
Having said that, best of luck to you!  |
That would be great man (the website stuff). I'd appreciate all the help I can get. I know HTML and some other stuff but I'm not good with advanced programming, coding, photoshop or anything like that. I know I could make a site that looks better than 99% of guitar shops' pages out there, but that's not saying much. I'd DEFINITELY take any help I could get
In regards to the other stuff, I'm not opposed to carrying imports and lower end stuff, but that's really going to be the primary focus of the shop.
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Originally Posted by yevetz
no need to ship internationally I have a bussines partner in Baltimore MD
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Well I'm definitely cool with working with you on stuff. I have a guy in The Netherlands who I supply stuff too sometimes, it's fun and mutually beneficial. We should probably keep that discussion private from here on out though