Excerpt from How to Run a Store at a Profit: Figuring Expenses and Mark-Up Counter and Window Displays How a Retailer in Creased Business 400% In Fourteen Months Short Cuts in Handling Trade Larger Net Profits Training Your Men to Sell Fifteen years it takes to make a business- man", says the manager of a great store; "five to know what goods and clerk hire total five to know the cost to keep store; five to recognize profit and stand up for it." But you can bridge these years - you can stop guessing at success. While your competitors are still estimating their cost to sell, you can make your itemized expense sheet show your gain on every line you handle. When you "guess in" the difference between buying and sale price, you "guess in" your profit. When you gamble on Exvense, you are gambling with your business die. Paper profits are no insurance for the merchant who keeps his expenses in the dark or fears to face them. Turn the light on your business! Face the facts! Itemize Expense, and make your price to cover. Think nothing of the large gross profit, for out of it must come all your running expenses. Know your cost to run and measure your success only by net profit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.