Here’s a little business 101. The single, biggest key to success for a business is customers. Without the customer, there is no need for the business. Getting and keeping customers is very important, but first businesses need to get customers. This is why a professional store grand opening is so important. A professional grand opening will create a consumer base for your business from the very first day. Having a well planned and well organized grand opening, you give your business a look, a brand, and an image that sets it a part from every other business. Obviously, the better the image, the better business will be.

Your Grand Opening Celebration
While a store grand opening is a party and celebration, it is also your business’ first day on the job and it needs to be clean and professional. It is worth the investment to hire professionals to do a professional job. Working with professionals will not only make you feel better about the image you are creating for your new business, but also the results will show up in your sales for years to come. Launching a new business requires a lot of work, as you have or are discovering. But glossing over details of your store grand opening is like going to a job interview with curlers in your hair, wearing your oldest pair of pajamas, and without even brushing your teeth. How your business comes out of the starting gate communicates to your employers what kind of employee you will be. In this case, the potential customers stopping by your grand opening celebrations are your employer. You have already put a major amount of time, energy and money into starting your business, and as a business grand opening is technically the last thing that will be planned before officially starting your business, it cannot reflect the fact that you are probably tired and over-worked.

Hosting a Professional Grand Opening
As mentioned, your store grand opening is a professional celebration! Because of that, the celebration needs to include more than just fun activities designed to convince people to stop by and check your business out. Because this is the birth of a new business, unique from every other business, brand building should start the same day. Most people plan to have small give-a-ways with their new company’s name and logo on it, possibly business cards which also include contact information and operating hours. What may get over-looked, however, is how all these little things are the beginning of their brand development. Brand building directly effects the first impression of your business that has already been mentioned. Your store grand opening marks the first day of brand building and awareness. It is important that this advertising campaign starts out well, too.

In the end, your new business will get noticed even if you haven’t put a lot of thought or design into a store grand opening. The part you do have control over is exactly how you are noticed and what impression new patrons walk away (or drive by) with. How do you want the community to first notice you?

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