Develop a budget that includes all the equipment you will need to start as well as essential documentation – any licensing, insurance, business cards, advertisements, etc. Start building your clientele.
For decades, it had been assumed that making good money in high-end retail depended on building a clientele: it might take a few years to create a million-dollar book (that is, a client list capable of generating a million dollars in sales), which the better specialty stores would reward with a six-figure salary.
"We have not lost hundreds of millions of pounds on the Net in the few years the Net was developing," he said, a not-so-veiled reference to companies like Amazon.com that have spent and lost large amounts of money building their clientele.
The company has slowly been building a clientele in Southern California with its shop-in-shops at Bloomingdale's stores in recent years.
"You're slowly building up your clientele, building up your collectors, building your résumé." She admitted that she had been pretty fortunate, too.
She is now styling hair at a salon in Bay Ridge, where she is working toward building up her clientele.
Through it all, the Yábars persevered, building a faithful clientele and an ecolodge in the foothills of the Amazon, near Manu, that is now an almost mandatory stop for ornithologists and birders traveling to South America.
Building a new clientele can take a year or more, said Mr. Daley, who has tended bar at the Kettle in all three locations and has owned it since 1998.
