I recently passed a shop advertising shoe repair and fine arts…
At first I thought the owners were touting the quality of their shoe repair work, but upon further inspection…
They are simply offering shoe repair services as well as paintings. And I didn’t get a picture of a handwritten sign inside the window, but they offer vacuum repair services too! (You can see the model vacuum sitting in the window on the right side of the image above.)
I wonder which of the 3 gets the most business? And perhaps the owner could provide some analysis on who is more likely to buy paintings – someone with broken shoes or a broken vacuum?
Perhaps the art would sell better if they did repairs while you wait. The customers could peruse the art while waiting. Maybe they should sell fine coffee as well.
I would offer slurpees also. Everyone likes those. And maybe ice cream… and chips and salsa… and sausage, mushroom, green pepper pizza… and some hats and gloves because it is getting cold outside and people may have forgotten their gear… and a razor and shaving cream for those who forgot to shave in the morning… and an Idiots guide to kayaking because a lot of people have wanted to kayak but just never built up the courage to do it so maybe reading the book might give them some courage in knowing that it can’t be that hard…
Sex toys. Gotta have sex toys as well.
I mean really…what’s vacuum repair, fine Art and shoe repair without a butt plug or two?
This is why America’s economy is in the toilet: lack of a basic business plan.
@ Steve
Yes! I have always wanted to learn more about kayaking. I tried it once in an open-top kayak on the ocean in Mexico…sunburned my legs so badly I could barely walk. Bad idea. I need an idiot’s guide.
However, I DO NOT like mushrooms on my pizza.
I wish I could be like the Renaissance men of old. Do some oil painting, discover a new planet, make my fortune in the tea trade, be the father of a new science, write voluminous tomes in Latin and smoke a long-handled pipe.
All men die. Not all men really live.
I didn’t like him anyway. He wasn’t right in the head.