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To continue with some of my previous experiences in Nouveau Riche....

Over a year ago, my two sons (now in their 20's), my partner, and I began talking about opening a comic book store in Scottsdale. We didn't take it too seriously at the time, and didn't do anything about it. In Spring of 2008, my son Sean and I were talking, and he mentioned to me that he liked the idea of running a business, and wouldn't mind revisiting the comic book store idea. I brought it up to his brother Andy, and my partner, Avery, and we all agreed it would be a fun venture, so we started having weekly meetings to plan it.

We had gotten to the point where I was calculating financial projections and needed to have an idea of how much to budget for rent, so we started looking at spaces.

Well, around the time I signed up for Nouveau Riche, we found the perfect space. We weren't really ready to take action yet, but we knew that this was the space meant for us. All four of us felt that way! We had to have financing in place and a business plan on the desk of the landlord in just a few days.

I started researching business plans, and spent nearly 72 hours straight working on ours. Then I remembered SEEK - the Super Entrepreneurial Encyclopedia of Knowledge. SEEK had information about business plans AND obtaining financing.

I put together a great business plan, and brought it to an investor friend, who bought into it right away, lending us the start up costs and reserves we needed to get started. I also sent it to the landlord, who approved us right away. WOW!

We had some buildout to do so got started on that. We also had other considerations - like the computer system we would use, inventory tracking, accounting, etc. etc.; and then of course, getting the word out.

SEEK took us through all of that.

And here we are, six months later, with Comic Zone (http://www.ComicZoneAZ.com), and we are loving it!

SEEK is a most amazing product that I highly recommend to all business owners who want to succeed!