so you know the basics of running a
business and you want to know more
well you've come to the right place and
if you just wanted to know the basics
i'm going to link to a video on that in
the description
here we're going to talk a lot about
perk points staff setups for making
money and setups for making perk points
plus a few random bits of info that will
hopefully answer any lingering questions
before i start do know that there's no
right or wrong way to run a business
we're all just here to have fun
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get into it when you start a business
you won't have
any perk points i need horror music for
announcements like these
now the annoying thing is that to get
perk points you actually have to do
stuff
any interactions your staff have won't
give you anything but you will get five
points per sales interaction
10 for restocking and 15 for closing a
sale one of the best ways to get points
is to open your store with the smallest
markup of five percent
which will maximize the amount you can
sell then if you have staff get them on
sales
while having your sim focus on closing
sales and restocking
if your sim has some spare time they can
help out with sales as well
but essentially you're focusing on the
tasks that get you more perk points
buying the small version of the faster
restocking and faster checkouts perks
will bring down the time it takes to
restock or close a cell from
30 to 20 game minutes so getting these
early can pay dividends so to speak
in helping you perform actions faster
and get more points quicker
now to be honest when starting out and
restocking and closing sales
is a very slow process it can be
slightly faster to gain perk points by
setting the markup to a hundred percent
and spamming sales options but this gets
very tiring on your hands and is boring
so i don't recommend it
unless your goal of running the business
is to make
fast money now sims shoppers suck
if you have expensive and cheap items
they'll often ignore your expensive
items
so if you're looking to make money crank
up that markup to 50 or 100
and set all your cheap items not for
sale so it seems to literally only have
a choice between the expensive stuff
it will be hard to make a sale but
eventually you will get there
closing the deal on that 15 000 smalling
violin that you just sold for thirty
thousand simoleons
is a quick fifteen thousand smalling in
profit if profit is your goal
save up for the short sale perk it's
expensive but will give you an option
that secures a sale
there's about a six hour cooldown
however if you're open for a long day
you can use it about three times and if
the markup's fifteen thousand simoleons
that's a guaranteed forty five thousand
small in profit now if you manage to
close a deal without using the perk
during the day you can make even more
you just need one admittedly expensive
perk to make this happen
in terms of perks some of the best perks
i suggest are instant restocking and
the large version of faster checkouts
simply to make your life easier and make
gaining perk points faster
beyond this for profit cheaper
restocking reduces the wholesale cost of
all items by 25
the serious shopper perk will mean
customers start off with a higher sales
bar
and the curious shopper perk will mean
that they linger in your store for
longer
both are great for sales note that sims
don't need to have their bath filled to
the top to make a purchase but the
higher it is when they finish shopping
the more of a chance they have to make
one
now the next thing we need to talk about
is staff and i must say
staff in the sims 4 are relatively
useless
firstly there are three things they're
measured on maintenance
work ethic and sales work ethic is by
far the most important
without it you'll be spending more time
managing your staff than they will be
spending working
i'm not even joking so look for that
first one hiring ideally you want at
least four out of five points in work
ethic
it's definitely worth buying the more
expensive employees as well
because the cheap ones do nothing but
play on their phone you'll be able to
hire
one employee at the start but it will
cost you 350 perk points for the ability
to hire a second
and 1 200 for the third don't bother
with the third until you've got most of
the other perks you need
as you won't get perk points from
anything your employees do
it's also good to have them clean the
store as you can't get points from doing
this anyway
or to help with sales pitches so you can
restock and close sales which are the
interactions that get you more points
it's also a good idea to appraise an
employee a few times when they're
working to help keep their satisfaction
high
but that's pretty easy to do now just
for a bunch of
random bits of info that could help you
if you want to sell items your sim has
crafted that you can't buy in buy mode
you only need to make one and you'll be
able to restock it
anyway even if you don't have another in
your inventory you can of course
make multiple of an item to reduce the
restocking cost note that this also
applies to food sales
but food will need to be kept in a
refrigerated display case to keep it
fresh for longer
similarly collectibles can be sold and
you'll be able to restock them even if
you don't have multiple
setting up collectible stores can be a
really great way to give other sims in
your neighborhood
easy access to objects that are tricky
to get clothing can be sold easily by
purchasing a mannequin in buy mode
and then having your sim fitted out with
an outfit and setting it for sale
when you purchase perks they will apply
to the business as a whole
not the sim that purchased them meaning
all members of the sims household will
be able to receive their benefit
also note that if you sell your business
then you will lose all your perks so be
warned before deciding on this option
if you're finding you don't have enough
customers consider increasing your curb
appeal
through a fancy sign or launching an
advertising campaign
which can be actioned through your
register and that should just about
cover it
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something i've missed please feel free
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not including something
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