What Makes A Business Successful
After being in business for almost ten years. I can honestly say that success in business is achieved with hard work, dedication and consistent quality. Whether it be a product or a service provided people recognize quality and will come back every time.
It has been almost ten years since we opened the doors at Elegant Limousines. We started this blog back in 2010 and have not been back to update since 2013. So I feel that we owe it to our audience to fill you in on what we have been doing and where we are today.
There is so much I have to share I just don't know where to start. So reaching back in my fogged memory I remember a time when we decided to start growing again after the terrible times that Florida saw do to the housing crash. We had scaled back big time. Our office was at our home and we were the only drivers. All of our limos were kept in a local storage facility. It was time to move to a location that we could have an office and a better place to keep our limos. At this time we only had 3 vehicles in the fleet. Bertha our 20 passenger Excursion, Betsy 2 the 8 passenger Lincoln limo and our black Town Car that was kept in the garage at our home.
Finding a new location
I looked on craigslist , realtor sites and came up empty. It is not easy to find a location that would accommodate us. By chance I was driving home from work one day. Yes I still had my day job at this point, but that is another story. I saw ( For Rent ) on what looked like a possible good location. I checked out the area and called the number on the sign. The owner told me this unit was too small for what we needed but he did have another location that might work. I called my wife to fill her in and let her know I was looking at a possible location. Per usual I got the ( Stop blowing smoke) response from my loving and supportive wife. Well the joke was on her... This place was perfect for what we needed at the time. We now have a place we could park 2 limos inside and have an office. It had zero street exposure, but it beat working out of a storage unit. The local business real estate was still in recovery mode. This gave us the upper hand in securing a lease price that was comfortable for us and the landlord was happy to have good tenants.
Moving In and Making It Work
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