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Hi everyone please could you all help me out here, me and my sister opened up our beauty salon on 1st December last year in our hometown of newcastle, we offer beauty services, nails, spray tanning and we have a couple of sunbeds.
about 2 weeks in we learnt that the shop we are renting has had numerous people open salons of the same nature then close again without warning, the last owners took block booking payments for the sunbeds and when the customers went back to use their minutes the shop was empty and closed.
A guy who works in the deli over the road told me this aswell and he said it is going to take a while for the locals to trust us.
this has resulted in us being EXTREMELY quiet, most days not a soul walks through the door! today the only person to set foot in the salon has been myself and the postman!
We have delivered thousands of leaflets as well as left them In the local shops. we are on facebook and instagram and we have posted loads of offers and even competitions. For some reason there is a massive lack of interest in us no matter what we do. We are just scraping by but the takings we are getting are barely covering the bills so we have no wages by the end of it. We had a January sale on where everything was 30% off mon-fri then 50% off on saturdays.
theres a huge lack of support from family and friends. Out of our entire family our mother and cousin are the only people who have even visited the shop, they have only negative comments from the very start, even before opening, we were doubted and patronised about every aspect of becoming business owners, even though we done a course last year prior to opening.
Our friends have no interes, they ask for freebies and when we say no they suddenly dont want the treatment anymore and they are 'skint', we had tried to organise a girly night for them within the salon after usual closing time with discounted treatments and free wine for everyone who came. As soon as it got around to prices a lot of them changed their minds about it.
I know im ranting and I am sorry but we are completely at our witts ends here as to ehat to do. I feel like we've tried everything possible but a lot of time and effort not to mention money has went into our business adventure and we are desperate to see it succeed.
Has anyone got any advice ar all for me please? I honestly don't know where we are going wrong here and im running out of ideas.
Thank you, Charlene xxx
about 2 weeks in we learnt that the shop we are renting has had numerous people open salons of the same nature then close again without warning, the last owners took block booking payments for the sunbeds and when the customers went back to use their minutes the shop was empty and closed.
A guy who works in the deli over the road told me this aswell and he said it is going to take a while for the locals to trust us.
this has resulted in us being EXTREMELY quiet, most days not a soul walks through the door! today the only person to set foot in the salon has been myself and the postman!
We have delivered thousands of leaflets as well as left them In the local shops. we are on facebook and instagram and we have posted loads of offers and even competitions. For some reason there is a massive lack of interest in us no matter what we do. We are just scraping by but the takings we are getting are barely covering the bills so we have no wages by the end of it. We had a January sale on where everything was 30% off mon-fri then 50% off on saturdays.
theres a huge lack of support from family and friends. Out of our entire family our mother and cousin are the only people who have even visited the shop, they have only negative comments from the very start, even before opening, we were doubted and patronised about every aspect of becoming business owners, even though we done a course last year prior to opening.
Our friends have no interes, they ask for freebies and when we say no they suddenly dont want the treatment anymore and they are 'skint', we had tried to organise a girly night for them within the salon after usual closing time with discounted treatments and free wine for everyone who came. As soon as it got around to prices a lot of them changed their minds about it.
I know im ranting and I am sorry but we are completely at our witts ends here as to ehat to do. I feel like we've tried everything possible but a lot of time and effort not to mention money has went into our business adventure and we are desperate to see it succeed.
Has anyone got any advice ar all for me please? I honestly don't know where we are going wrong here and im running out of ideas.
Thank you, Charlene xxx