[NJblue]

PlanetSmoothie,

I hope you are still around when we move down there. I have a Planet Smoothie close to where I work and I go there for lunch quite frequently - love the Chocolate Elvis!

Based on your current location, I can say that I would schedule my visits to Home Depot around lunch time so that I could grab lunch as part of my Home Depot run. Thinking along those lines, perhaps you could make a joint arrangement with the manager at Home Depot. Perhaps they would let you put a sign in their entrance advertising your business and offering a 10% discount to anyone that shows a Home Depot receipt from the current day. That way, you would benefit from some of the Home Depot traffic and eventually build a loyal following who will come even if they don't have to go to Home Depot for something. Home Depot would benefit because there would be an added incentive to come to them versus Lowes or other competitors.

Another thing that our local Planet Smoothie offers which you may or may not already be trying is a punch card where you get a free small Smoothie for every 10 Smoothies that you buy.

They also have some advertisements from nearby small businesses by their entrance. My guess is that if I were to go to these other businesses, that I would see advertisements for Planet Smoothie there as a reciprocal advertising agreement.

Hang in there. I'll need my Chocolate Elvis fix when we get down there.