match point network
I recently spent the summer before the semester with my uncle who lives down in Florida in the city of Orlando. I was helping him set up his new business in town where he bought a franchise of a clothing store. I was basically helping him set up his stock room and the front. We also built some shelves and racks for the clothes and tried to create a good layout for the space he had available to him. It was a lot of fun and I learned some things about business that I didn't quite know before.
My uncle has bought this franchise out of a desire for the product. He has always been the kind of person who you would think is like a fashion designer since he knows so much about clothing and jewelry, but he just has a genuine passion for everything of that sort. He never really had the opportunity to do anything with design because of different life circumstances and financial problems that he ran in to in the past. Now though, he finally got to a point of stability and decided to make a go at running his own fashion store. So now he will begin selli9ng clothing, jewelry, glasses, and things like that at his own store.
What I found the most interesting about the whole experience was the business aspect of what he was trying to do. Neither I, nor my Uncle, knew anything about setting up a franchise before this summer. He got the idea and then knew immediately he would need some kind of outside consultation. He signed up with a firm called the match point network, which works with people in his similar situation. They basically talked with him every step of the way all summer long, and probably still are, about how to make his business as successful as it could possibly be. Now he has just about two weeks till he plans to open the store and all he is waiting on is his inventory and for enough employees to really run the place. He wants to run the inside of the shop, but not to be alone. I hope that when I graduate I can have the clarity of vision that my Uncle seems to have right now in his own life.