Comments on: Common small business mistakes – Setting business hours https://smallbizsurvival.com/2007/09/common-small-business-mistakes-setting.html The small town and rural business resource Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tips for setting business hours https://smallbizsurvival.com/2007/09/common-small-business-mistakes-setting.html#comment-10377 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:13:40 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1349#comment-10377 […] years ago, I wrote about a couple of other local business, one with inconsistent hours that were always changing and one that wasn’t always open when […]

]]> By: Becky McCray https://smallbizsurvival.com/2007/09/common-small-business-mistakes-setting.html#comment-569 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:46:00 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1349#comment-569 Rick, that is an excellent example of correcting business hours. You’ve made terrific choices, handling your special challenge in a smart way. Thanks for sharing your experience!

]]> By: Rick Cockrum https://smallbizsurvival.com/2007/09/common-small-business-mistakes-setting.html#comment-568 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:28:00 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1349#comment-568 Hello Becky,

This is a discussion my wife and I have had at our theatre. Movies have different run times. We settled on start times such that no matter how long the movie, we could always keep the same start time for every show except the late evening show. It could start later than 9:40, our normal start time, but never earlier. This simplified things for our customers immensely. On a related note – we always run the movie, even if only one person comes. I think we’ve built confidence in our customers by these two things. When we first bought the theatre, we would get occasional complaints regarding the previous owners over their tendency to unstable hours.

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