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how others are doing in an easily I was a printer for 17 years and
readable way. I like to catch up hated 16 years and 11 months
on things between customers and of it!
Pixel is perfect for that. Q11) What has been the
ROD HILLIER, BEKEN & SON,
Q5) What is your preferred best way of attracting
ISLE OF WIGHT
product to sell and why? customers into the shop?
Anything that a genuine customer Having such a wide range of
Q1) How long have you wants and then buys. items is probably the best. By
worked in retail? Q6) How do you promote having a teenage buyer we can
I have been working here your business? stock items like ipod accessories Push through the editors pay rise.
for 15 years now and been We only advertise in a very small for younger people as well as the Q16) If any generous reps
the owner for 8 of those. way now. I am not convinced usual camera shop things. are reading this, I would
Q2) How has business a lot of advertising works in Q12) What’s next for your like a [freebie of your
changed over the last six this area, as a lot of those who shop? choice] - no promises, but
months? advertised heavily in the past Get rid of the overdraft again we if you don’t ask …
For us it has been making it around here have now closed. hope. Its always been my aim Quantity of display models
viable by reducing stock and Q7) What aspects of your and Dani did it last year but a for the window. I have always
only selling profi table items and job do you enjoy the most? larger than usual tax bill meant thought if we could get hold of
not things such as digital SLRs. Defi nitely working with Danielle using it again for a while. dummy cameras and binoculars
Our turnover is down but profi t on Saturdays and school Q13) Funniest/most to put in the window we would
is level or up in most months. holidays. She does all the embarrassing moment in sell lots more as we can’t afford
Q3) Ever served anyone fi nancial things and ordering that store? to use the real thing for displays.
famous? (if so, who?) has made the business viable, Recently it has been having to Q17) If I didn’t work here,
Alan Titchmarsh and former and makes me laugh as well. go for a ten minute walk during I’d be …
newsreader Kenneth Kendall Q8) What was the best a quiet spell as I felt as though I A multi millionaire. Somewhere
come in now. selling product in store over was going to fall asleep only to there is a very wealthy person
Anika Rice, singer Steve Harley the Christmas period? be told when I got back “even my sat by a swimming pool thinking
and actor Paul McGann are Jigsaw puzzles. grandparents don’t do that” I wish I owned a camera shop
among those who have been in Q9) Favourite product in Q14) What’s the highest in Cowes and somehow we got
in the past. your shop? value sale you’ve made? mixed up at birth.
Q4) What’s your favourite Panasonic TZ7 and Roberts A £3000 lens several years ago. Q18) Finally, what is the
thing about Pixel? (be Stream 83i radio. Q15) If you could be Pixel best joke you know?
nice!) Q10) What was your fi rst editor for a day, what People thinking that small
It gives details of products and job? would you do? business owners are rich!
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