How to Open a New Age Store

Business Overview:

If you want to manifest your dreams, serve others and attract greater wealth into your life you should consider learning how to open a new age store. If you’re interested in the New Age philosophy, then this is a business idea that will provide you with a great deal of freedom to create a profitable business around your passion while contributing to the spiritual awareness of the world. There’s a great deal of freedom in what type of new age store you want to have. You could open a new age book shop, or a new age gift shop focused on stones, crystals, and incense, or specialize in offering classes and selling the necessary items needed. Alternatively you could open a store specializing in other areas of the New Age such as candles, angel items, Feng Shui, and so on. With the growth of the New Age community in recent years, along with an increase in general public interest in the New Age following the success of the best-selling book and DVD The Secret, there’s no doubt that opening a new age store could prove to be a highly profitable business venture for you. Indeed, in addition to selling new age products you could also further increase your revenue by teaching classes, hiring out space to healers, or hosting special events. A passion for the New Age and a desire to become successful through contributing positively to others are the only major requirements to achieve success opening a new age store, as no special skills or qualifications are needed for this business.

A Day in the Life of a New Age Store Business Owner:

A typical day for a new age store business owner would start by opening up your new age store for business around 9 a.m. or so. Throughout the day customers would enter your store, and you’d help them find the products they are looking for. You may also take bookings for special classes if you choose to offer them, such as energy readings, using crystals properly, etc. A huge part of this business is engaging with your customers, talking about their interests and sharing your thoughts on the topic at hand. You would then close up shop around 6 p.m. or so, ensuring the store is secure, clean, tidy, and ready to be opened for business the next day. Of course, you could hire staff to open and close your store for you and serve customers. In this case a typical day would consist of ensuring the smooth running of your store, monitoring stock levels, and placing orders for more products if your stock levels got low.

About Your Customers:

Your customers will be people who share an interest in the New Age and its spiritual philosophies.

What You Need to Start:

• Business plan
• Marketing plan
• Storefront
• Inventory (new age books, candles, angel items, etc.)
• Staff
• Business license and insurance
• Computer with finance software

The Good:

• If you’re interested in the New Age, you’ll be doing something you love all day.
• The New Age is a growing community and general public interest is increasing—so you can profit from this positive trend both now and into the future.
• There are opportunities for increasing revenue in addition to selling products by doing things like offering classes and organizing special events.
• This business offers a lot of freedom—you can choose from many products and areas of the New Age to specialize your store in (books, Feng Shui, candles, etc.).
• You’ll be making a living contributing in a positive way to the spiritual health and consciousness of the planet.

The Bad:

• It may take some time for you to see profits as initial start-up costs for opening a store are quite high.
• You will need to invest quite a lot of your time getting your new age store up and running, at least in the beginning.

Resources:

• National Retail Federation
• Retail Merchants Association
• Bureau of Labor Statistics on Clothing, Accessory and General Merchandise Stores
• Wikipedia on New Age

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