• Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Growth-oriented retailers, restaurateurs, and other entrepreneurs with storefronts typically launch their ventures with a plan to open new locations. Just as the business plan for the first location presented complex issues, challenges, and problems, plans for a new site bring new questions:
• How do we replicate our business model?
• How do we avoid the mistakes we made the first time around?
• How can we analyze our current location's performance to build a better plan for the new one?
• What new challenges will another location bring?

At this panel discussion, you will learn directly from business owners who have experience and expertise in these areas. They will share their mistakes, successes, decisions, and lessons from opening new locations. Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with them, asking the specific questions that you face as you create plans to expand your own business.

Confirmed Panelists

Michael Thomas, Piggy Toes
Michael Rovitto, Michael Anthony Salon Spa
Peter Hanig, Hanig's