Hey guys, this is Matt getting serious here. So about a 9 months ago I moved my game store Trade-N-Save into my Pawn Store Pawn Plus in Pensacola. Well let me backup. We opened my first game store in 2003. It survived and thrived all the way up until today past my other stores which opened then closed in less than half that time. Well, our sales went from 15,000 a month(900sq ft) to $5,000 a month and even with internet sales it was not enough to cover costs...
So fast forward to now where even my Pawn Store is not generating enough profit to stay in business so now we must make a decision. Convert to a quasi secondhand buyer/online seller of anything of value or just wholesale all of our inventory, fixtures, tools, video game console parts and start over?
For the last 3 months I have been working for my brother in a field I never would have tried if I had the choice, construction! Yes the computer nerd that has been fixing Xbox 360's and buying, selling, trading games for 15 years is swinging a hammer making fences and decks!
I have been behind the retail counter almost my whole adult life...I really am tired of it. Hence the fence and deck building. I don't have a college degree or any specific marketable skills besides everything that goes into running a business...but who would want to hire a guy like me?