to finally see your store. joe s family business, monterey basil ver. we ve been here 15 years. is one of four independent jewelry stores next to each other he and his wife mary own and operate. i m mary. it s so nice to meet you. nice to meet you. we are thrilled to be here today. i m thrilled to have you. so i saw this silver store. what s the name of this one? this is morning star pearl. targeting older women and a silver shop targeting younger ones. this is called splash. splash is less about an age group and more about fun. and then there s the most recent store called everything must go. filled with various leftovers at close-out prices appealing to bargain hunters of all ages. how did this happen? how you have one, then another and another one? is it just that space kept opening up? i don t know. it sort of progressed that way. i didn t i never plan too much. the reason we re here is
because your son wrote us a letter. my parents gave everything to give to us so that we would have a leg up in this world and have never asked for something in return. they are both now 64 and 65 years old without a retirement nest egg to rely on. it sounds like you guys, your whole life, your married life and business life flown by the seat of your pants. true. it s true. of course. is that how you see it? absolutely. you are making a nice living. something happened tomorrow, right, you don t have anything put away yet. yeah. i think it s time to think about that. planning for the future has never been joe and mary s style. but with retirement on the horizon, they now suddenly need a strategy. and we came in to give them one. on behalf of your children then, i am excited to get this team in here. i know you have been talking to them, and have them tell what you they thought through for your business so that at some point you guys can retire. oh, my god. now it s time t
so excited and surprised and i don t know who do i hug first? who do i write? can i make them lasagna. mary might be making more than one when she and joe see what the interior designers have drawn up for their business. joe can hardly wait to see what s coming next. well, i m excited for you to see what we have in store for you. and then i m excited to see what you do with it. we ll find out. i m very excited to find out. we re not finished helping yet. we ve got big surprises in store for them. stay tuned to see what they are. more and more businesses are turning to instagram to reach younger demographics. five ways to get the most out of your presence on the site courtesy of small biz trends.com. one, take a better picture. sites like pop photo.com and
a single location, if we re able to do that, joe, it will reduce the overall payroll by two thirds. unbelievable. that s huge. that would be great. according to our team f these guys are going to up the value of their business, then they are going to need to optimize it by consolidating all four locations into a single store. mary and joe, you know, we have talked about how important it is to kind of bring this all under one roof. and so think we ve got a real surprise for you here. have a seat. interior designers of the san francisco-based firm genzler usually work on plans for large corporate clients. after looking over joe and mary s space and talking with them, the designers are ready to present their ideas. what we re proposing is that we condense those three spaces into one to give you
stuff and left with just the clunkers. hey, and here comes dawn. dawn roland. hi. that s where our next expert cpa dawn roland comes in. my goodness. you have a full-blown point of sale system. you re kidding. you have a touch screen monitor which is nice and easy. you have a full key board cash register, computer, the software is installed all set to go. thanks to a generous donation by the intuit reseller program dawn got joe and mary fast tracked on the latest inventory control system. my gosh. that is so cool. dreaming of this for a long time. never stepped into it. i just was stepped away actually. no more excuses. you re going to know everything that sells, every minute of the day. and you ll be able to share those numbers with suppliers. exactly. they can help keep you in stock on the goods that sell.