Assess the Competition

Prior to opening a furniture refinishing and repair business within your community, it's a smart move to determine how strong the competition is. Use the link below to find competitors near you. Simply enter your city, state and zip code to get a list of furniture refinishing and repair businesses in your town.

• Find Competing Furniture Refinishing & Repair Businesses

How are you going to successfully complete with existing firms? It's important that you never underestimate the competition.

Find Good Remote Business Advice

Once you've finished assessing the competion, it's essential that you have a conversation with someone who is in the business. If you think your local competitors will give you advice, you're being overoptimistic. What's in it for them?

On the other hand, an individual who has a furniture refinishing and repair business in a different city can be a great learning resource for you, as long as they don't view you as a competitive threat. Indeed, many experienced entrepreneurs enjoy offering advice to startup entrepreneurs. In my experience, you may have to call ten business owners in order to find one who is willing to share his wisdom with you.

How do you go about finding an owner of a furniture refinishing and repair business in a different locale who can assist you?

It's easy. Here's a link you can use to find a mentor outside of your area.

• Search for Furniture Refinishing & Repair Business Owners

Franchising May Be a Better Way to Go

Your chances for achieving your top business goals greatly improve if you opt for franchising and benefit from the prior work of others and their lessons learned.

Before you consider starting a furniture refinishing and repair business, you may want to investigate whether there are good franchise opportunities available that might make sense for you.

The link below gives you access to our franchise directory so you can see if there's a franchise opportunity for you. You might even find something that points you in a completely different direction.

• How to Buy a Franchise