How to Begin a Horse Tack Store

It is only natural for people with an interest in horses to want to take their love of horses and turn it into a thriving business. Opening a tack shop is an excellent way to make a living, and an excellent way to meet other horse lovers in your area. But as with any business, you need to prepare carefully in order to be successful.

Things You'll Need

  • Suitable location
  • Tack supplies
  • Sales flyers
  • Horse trailer
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Instructions

    • 1

      Find a suitable location for your tack shop business. The ideal tack shop location will have plenty of vehicular traffic to drive impulse shoppers. Locating the tack shop in a rural area will help ensure that a good number of passersby are interested in the products your tack shop has to sell.

    • 2

      Consider starting your tack shop as a consignment store. Opening a consignment tack shop can greatly reduce your costs, since you will be selling items on consignment instead of buying saddles, bridles and other pieces of tack for resale.

    • 3

      Create colorful and eye-catching flyers, and hang them up at feed stores, horse shows and other places where horse owners gather. Use colorful pictures of horses, and include complete contact information on each flyer. If you are opening a consignment shop, use the flyers to solicit items for your store.

    • 4

      Make a deal with the management of local horse shows. Ask if you can bring a trailer full of your tack to the show grounds to sell on show day. Many competitors will need replacements for broken items, so a horse show is an excellent place to sell tack. Be sure to keep a stack of your business cards and flyers on the fender of the tack trailer to solicit additional business.