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a basic business rule would be supply and demand. How much demand is there in Rockland Maine. Say the surrounding population is 50,000. lets say 20,000 own imports. Of that 20,000 (most of which would be your regular grocery getting mom) 15% want to mod thier car, of that 15% 1/2 know of your shop through ad's or just passing by and so goto your shop instead of internet or mail order, that leaves you with 666 possible connumers. Lets say the 666 consumers spend an average of $200 a year at your store. Thats $132,000 before taxes. Then of course you need to pay for the products you sell, so that $200 a person spend you make $50 off it (thats a nice ratio) thats $33200 a year before taxes and rent for shop space. It's a cool idea but you don't want to rush in to anything, research everything and see whats available. Personally if u want to open a import shop move to my old community the closest real shop was 1/2 an hour a way, you would have a whole area of about 100,000 mid class kids to yourself <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> wow sorry this post dragged on with so many #'s flying around.
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