Contact Name: Angela Jordan

Company Name: Mission Excel Tutoring

Website: http://www.mission-excel.com

Email: info@mission-excel.com

Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Celebration!

Special Gifts for Teachers
Free Gifts • Games & Contests •Math & Reading Sense • Face Painting • Food
• Olympic-Style medals for all participating children
All Learning Levels: Pre-K to College

Grand Opening Specials: No Registration Fee!
• 2 in 1 – Academic After School & Tutoring (Ages 6-12) $50/week
• One-on-one Tutoring: Math Arithmetic to Calculus II, English Pre-K to College $20/hour
• In Only 6 Weeks – ACE the SAT® Classes! (only $65/week – supplies and materials included)
Grand Prize: Mission Excel Tutoring Scholarship
9600 Two Notch Rd, Suite 5
Saturday, September 17, 2011
2:00 – 6:00

Inexpensive way to have Grand Opening Flyers Designed

Companies first starting out are always under tight budget constraints and don’t always have the time and personnel to help them with creating flyers or announcements.  Here is a quick and inexpensive way to have flyers, business cards, and posters designed without breaking the bank.

Fiverr.com is a place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5.00: Funny and bizarre, social marketing, graphics, advertising, technology, business project all can be hired for $5.00.  Imagine you want to have a simple flyer made advertising your grand opening to use on social media networks.  Instead of wasting time doing it yourself, spend $5.00 and have a professional build a poster or flyer for you in 2-3 days.  Most designers will allow one to six revisions to a flyer, but the nice part is that this is throw away marketing material.  This is a once in a life time flyer.  Don’t spend countless hours designing it, have something created that is professional looking and be finished.  Then use it to market your business grand opening and move on.

There will come a time when you will need a professional graphic designer to build custom advertising, but for now the key is creating a flyer and getting the word out to the public that you’re open.

Contact Name: Renat Zarbailov

Company Name: Quality Barbers

Website: http://www.qualitybarbers.com

Email: qualitybarbers@gmail.com

Come celebrate with us! There will be food, music and free t-shirts. To celebrate our Grand-Opening, Quality Barbers is offering One Year of FREE haircuts to the lucky winner ($300 value). To enter the contest, you must register on our web site below and facebook/twitter-connect with us, mention about Quality Barbers on your wall three times before September 6, 2011. Winner will be announced on the eve of our Grand-Opening celebration — September 6, 2011. Winner must be present to receive the win.

Disclaimer: Winner receives 1 haircut/month (12 haircuts/year total). Win awarded to males only and is non-transferable. Names with multiple email address registrations will be disqualified from contest. Quality Barbers Inc. does not share your personal information with third parties.

Get Free Haircuts for One Year! Register here:

Yelp Now Open and Get Reviews

Did you Yelp “Now Open” and seek reviews encouraging people to talk about your business? People have been watching how your business develops and are anticipating your opening.  Your business is the talk of the business in town, local residents and among family members driving by your business.  Think of how many times you have said to a family member “You know the _____ store on _______ street is now open.”

Shelves stock to compactly, staff is friendly, and there is excitement of the grand opening, so why not encourage people to review your business?  Yelp’s online community can spread the word faster about a business then the 10-foot rented hot air balloon with a sign on it reading “Now Open” that sits on the parkway.

Encourage them to Yelp Now Open

Strategically place signs that say “People love us on Yelp”. Plant the seed in their head when walking out the door.  Place a Yelp sign in the restrooms and say “Hey, if this bathroom is clean, Yelp it to the world.” Keep the grand opening buzz going by providing special offers for people who use Yelp Check-in Offers.

Yelp is a user review and recommendation website and mobile applet that allows users to rate their experience with a business. Exceeding 15 million reviews of business, new business should encourage customers to Yelp about their experience and should monitor its reviews.

Manage your Yelp Image

Customers will be reviewing your business staff, product and service.  Consider them as micro managers who’s criticisms will dictate the longevity of your business. Address Yelp criticisms with employees to correct problems and improve services.  Look upon Yelp as a business tool to help fine-tune your business.  Include Yelp into your Grand Opening plans and take advantage of the free input that will help you build a successful business.

Contact Name: Joe Rodriguez

Company Name: Irving Park Dentistry

Website: http://irvingparkdentistry.com/

Email: irving.park@yahoo.com

Irving Park Dentistry is proud to announce their Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday May 21st.

Come out and join us. We will be offering FREE child exams during this time, so don’t forget to bring them too.

There would also be food, beverages, door prizes, clown face painting and lots of fun!

The duty of a Fire Inspector is to make sure your retail business is safe, not only for the customers, but also the employees.  Retail owners need to understand and learn what is required of them as a retail outlet.  Calling in the local Fire Inspector to look at new displays designs and store layout prior to opening can save everyone a headache.  What “we think” is a small inconvenience for a customer to walk around a display, may be a safety hazards or violation of city municipality codes.

New employees need to understand taking shortcuts and stacking up empty cardboard cartons next to an emergency exit is not acceptable.  Every employee should know where all fire extinguishers are located and how to operate them correctly.   Posting of emergency phone number should be clearly marked for all employees to see.  Procedures on what to do if a fire occurs and how to evacuate the store should be address.  After all this is your business and as a retail owner you are responsible for the safety of customers and employees.

Do not assume you know what you are doing as a retail owner when it comes to fire safety. Most Fire Inspectors will work with you develop proper training material or may offer a class at your facility to educate owners, managers, and employees.  Employee inexperience may stack two products side-by-side, when combined are highly combustible or hazardous. Proper education will prevent these mishaps and also save you time and money rearrange store merchandize.

Just as you plan for the seasons, make sure you train staff regularly and often.  Many retails stores hire temporary staff during the holidays, mandate a safety day and reiterate the safety requirements.  If possible schedule the Fire Inspector to be present.  Some employees may think this is a goof off meeting and not take it seriously.

Learn to work with the Fire Inspector and have a safe and educated staff, minus the headaches of moving merchandise or redesigning displays.

Each year more and more people are texting and the trend is not declining.  Look around and you see people texting while eating, in meetings, and even going to the bathroom – it is an addiction to some. IPad users are using applications to link into the data stream. Allowing them to Internet surf, control the TV, and to send and receive text messages. Information is flowing all around us and a trick to getting your business in the text messaging loop is by converting Twitter message in to SMS text messages.

Like any opt-in marketing program you are going to have to entice followers to join the service, but this you have to do that with email newsletters, Facebook fan pages, and all the other social marketing programs.  However, there is a way to allow followers to follow your Twitter messages via SMS text-messaging.   Tell customer to text “follow (Twitter account)” to 40404.  This is a Twitter feature that allows for mobile message distribution.  Followers receive these Twitter messages as a SMS text message.

This service is available for US residents and any Carrier charges still apply for receiving text messages.

Dale Obrochta is an experienced writer and professional corporate entertainer who enable discouraged employees in business to revitalizing their life, mind, and body effortlessly using simple logic.

Author: Andrew Hallinan

A grand opening is both the end result of a lot of hard work and the beginning of dream.  The first day of a business turns the many long hours of sweat, time, energy, money, and preparation into the start of new beginning (which, ironically, is going to require more of all that sweat, time, and energy).  But just how do you get through all that hard work to have a successful grand opening?  The best way to make sure everything gets done that needs to is to write it all out and prioritize.  Here\’s some help in thinking through as you write out a to-do list.

1. Licensing
Some of the hardest things to obtain in opening a new business are the required, government issued, permits, licenses, and inspections.  But first you need to know exactly what all those requirements are so a plan can be made to pass them all with flying colors.  Once you believe you have met the requirements, planning and waiting for an appointment for inspection can be almost as lengthy of a process as working to meet the requirements.  Once all the necessary tests have been passed, its equally as important to know what standards will continually need to be upheld and kept close watch on (such as public safety and health regulations).  Also be sure to know what licenses and certifications need to be out for public display.  And even if it is not a requirement to display some, consider framing and hanging them anyway as it will likely put people at ease and let guests know how high of a standard you hold your business to.

2. Design
Once the legal requirements are met, the rest of the building needs to be designed and planned.  Lighting, cooling, main walkways, and lines of sight should all be optimized for whatever fits your new business best.  Thoughts about what a customer will see first and last needs to be considered as well as figuring out the best placement of business sings, both indoors and outdoors.  The indoors needs to be easy to navigate (for both customers and workers) and the whole building, from the outside in, should flow together cohesively.  The outside lights and signs should be up and lit as soon as possible to start branding your new business and letting potential customers know when your grand opening is.

3. Goods
For new businesses dealing with non-perishable items, stocking shelves is a bit easier than for those dealing with medicines or foods.  For non-perishable items, order than as far in advance as possible (once you have a place to store them, that is), that way there will be no worrying.  If things do need to be ordered closer to the grand opening date, ask vendors to provide you access to a tracking system.  This way you will always know where those goods are  and when they can be expected.  If there is the possibility that you will not be on-site when deliveries might be made, be sure to leave clear instructions in an obvious place (most often a sign taped to the front door), a cell phone number where you can instantly be reached with more instructions, and an alternate delivery address on the chance that you cannot be reached by phone.

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Author: Andrew Hallinan

Your grand opening is a very important day with lots of jitters and excitement for all involved.  And because it is the first day you are introducing your new company to the the world, to potential clients and customers, its very important that everyone involved puts their ‘best foot forward’.  In order to ensure this happens, its very important that all employees are a part of the employee training process.  Not only do new employees need to be trained for their particular roles that they will be fulfilling in the weeks and months ahead, but all employees should be prepared to fill multiple jobs in the chaos of the first day and grand opening celebration.  Training is so important because the employees are the face and voice of the business.

Basic Training: Interacting with Customers
Every employee, regardless of their prior work experience, should be trained in the basics, such as greeting customers, health and safety regulations, the location and stocking of goods, as well as closing and opening procedures.  For training on interactions with customers, the best idea is often to provide an example script and then to role-play.  Take the time and energy to make sure all employees know their roles well enough to be confident and professional for both the grand opening and the months to follow.  Their speech, actions, and knowledge of the store should reflect this training and standard of professionalism.

Basic Training: Stocking Shelves
Another aspect of running the new business that every employee should know is how to display the goods and merchandise.  Most often this means knowing how to stock shelves and then label with prices.  If no goods are out, available to customers for purchase, then the ‘closed’ sign might as well be out.  In other words, if there is ever a possibility of a customer dropping in looking to spend money but the shelves aren\’t stocked, then there is no point in paying employees to ‘man the post’.  In order to make sure that never happens, all employees, regardless of their paid positions, should know how to stock goods and label pricing.

Basic Training: Checkout Procedure
Knowing how to put the correct prices on goods ties in to an earlier point of everyone needing to know how to check a customer out in a timely manner.  Being able to complete a customer\’s desired transaction in a timely and professional manner is tied into the earlier point of all employees needing to know how to interact with patrons.  But employees will not be able to complete the transaction without knowing pricing.  And clients quickly become frustrated with shopping if they do not know how much an item is going to cost them.  Once both parties know this information, only then can transactions, money in exchange for goods, go smoothly.  This enables customers to leave satisfied and employees to work efficiently.  Make sure that employees know not only how to label, but where the pricing and bar code information can be found by using a master, computerized, listing program.

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