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Become a Gift Shop Owner

Open Your Own Gift Store

If you love gift shopping and are looking for a creative and rewarding retail business to start, then opening a gift shop is for you.

About a Career as a Gift Shop Owner

When you open a gift shop, you will have a business that lets you get paid to indulge your passion for gift shopping while helping people celebrate some of the happiest moments in life.

From birthdays to new babies to just because, gift shop owners have the satisfaction of helping people show they care.

While gift sales are highest on holidays such as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and especially Christmas, spending on gifts for year-round occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries is growing, offering greater opportunity for gift shop owners.

As a gift shop owner, you will have access to high quality, exclusive wholesale merchandise from all over the world, plus prestigious and popular brand names.

You’ll see the joy on customers' faces when they discover the treasures you’ve unearthed for them and find the perfect gift for someone they love.

When you open a gift shop you will have the freedom to make your own decisions and express your creative spirit through your store, including deciding what kind of gifts you want to sell.

You might choose to open a gift shop offering a wide range of gifts that appeal to many people. Or you could specialize in particular types of gifts, or gifts for particular types of people.

For example, you might choose to open any of these types of gift stores:

  • Artisan gift shop selling arts and crafts
  • Card and gift shop
  • Ethnic gift shop
  • Gift boutique
  • Holiday store
  • Novelty shop selling gag gifts
  • Personalized gift shop selling items that can be personalized e.g. for weddings
  • Souvenir gift shop
  • Specialty gift shop selling gifts for people who belong to a particular group:
    • based on demographics (e.g. gifts for a particular age group, gender, religion, etc.)
    • based on interests (e.g. gifts for pet owners, nature lovers, science buffs, etc.)

As long as you have the desire, you can become a gift shop owner. No special education or experience is necessary to break into this business and succeed.

Guide to Become a Gift Shop Owner

This edition of the guide is from 2020. You can find the most recently updated information for this career in the Gift Shop Owner Certificate Course offered by International Association of Professions Career College (also known as IAP Career College) at iapcollege.com. Visit Gift Shop Owner Certificate Course to learn more.

If opening a gift shop sounds like the career of your dreams, the FabJob Guide to Become a Gift Shop Owner is for you! In this e-book you will discover how you can get started and succeed in the gift store business.

The gift shop guide offers insider tips and expert advice from successful gift shop owners and industry insiders. The experts who share advice in this guide include:

  • Rich Honea, owner of Scott James East Village, a unique gift store which has been voted #1 in San Diego four years in a row by San Diego Magazine
  • Barbara Lenhardt, Director of Retail Services, Virginia Museum of Fine Art Shop, and former owner of a gift shop called Victorian Treasures which she sold after 15 years
  • Frank and Georgeann Mondelli, co-owners of Nikki’s Card & Gift Shop, an award-winning Hallmark Gold Crown Store in Maywood, New Jersey, just outside of New York City, that has been in business over 22 years and has grown from 1,200 to 4,000 square feet

The guide covers topics of vital importance to anyone who wants to open a gift shop in the United States or Canada, plus helpful advice for stating a gift shop in any country.

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The guide also includes many samples and checklists, including:

  • Sample business plan for a gift store
  • Sample gift shop floor plan
  • Sample lease agreement
  • Sample budgets for a gift shop
  • Sample daily sales report
  • Sample gift shop press release
  • Checklist to evaluate competing gift stores
  • Checklist for finding the perfect location for your gift store
  • Gift shop supplies checklist
  • Store operations checklist
  • And more!

The information in this guide can save you many hours of research, help you avoid some costly mistakes, and give you information you need to open your own gift shop.

How to Get the Guide

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You can earn back the price of the guide your very first day in business. Plus this guide can help you open a retail gift shop much more quickly and profitably.

If you believe you deserve to have the career of your dreams, this guide is for you. It gives you what you need to know to open a gift store.

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    Brenna Pearce, Editor:

    The FabJob Guide to Become a Gift Shop Owner will take you step-by-step through what you need to know to open and operate your own gift shop. You’ll learn the ins and outs of running a gift store and be ready to get started in a new and exciting career as a gift shop owner.”

    Cynthia Sutton-Stolle, Co-owner, The Silver Barn, Columbus, Texas:

    It’s very rewarding when you see a customer excited to find a great item, especially when you had them in mind when you bought the product at market. It’s exciting to see people come to the store and comment on how they like the store, they like the merchandise, and they like how things are displayed.”

    Rich Honea, Owner, Scott James East Village (gift store voted #1 in San Diego four years in a row by San Diego Magazine):

    I can tell you without hesitation that I have the same passion for my business that I had when I first opened. I love the people, the store, the area, the shopping, the merchandise — everything! I can’t imagine doing anything else.” (Cynthia and Rich are two of the gift shop owners who give advice in this FabJob guide)

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