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Want to open a business? What is to be done? Not sure? Make a list! You can't open a shop or restaurant without knowing, especially when this is your very first time.

Look for a place to open your business. It can be from your home provided you've got enough places. Otherwise, go for shop lots. Try to find a place where is near to both residential and commercial districts. If possible, find a place where there are multi-parking lots so that your customers won't have difficulties when they drive to you.

Name your business and get registered for license. You can't run an illegal business. Try to think of a name that can easily be remembered.

Prepare leaflets to be distributed to people. You can put the leaflets in mailboxes, vehicles' window screens, and handouts to people who pass by. It must be simple with clearly stated information such as the location, the name of your shop, opening hours and others.

Come up with an opening promotion such as discounts, cheaper price and free gift to attract people coming to you.

If you're opening a boutique, make sure you follow the trend so that you can sell latest fashion to your customer. You have to update yourself in order to stay competitive.

If you're opening a restaurant, make sure you know how to cook in case your cooks got sick and can't come to work or they got fired by you. You must also think of what type of food that you're selling, how should the food be prepare, where to buy the ingredients and so on. You can't serve your customers with an empty restaurant.

Hire workers that you need for a start. You can hire more in the future. You need to have at least a cashier, 2-4 servers to serve customers, and 1 caretaker to keep the place clean and tidy. You can't open your shop when there's no one but you doing all jobs.

There may be other things that you need to keep in mind, they may come later on when you see profit in the business that you're doing.