BeautiqueSpa
Well-Known Member
If you knew then what you know now, would you still open your salon?
I have the opportunity and desire to open a salon and run it myself from the business side of things. I have worked with my partner in many different types of businesses and in many different positions to the point where I am now experienced in payroll, bookkeeping, accounts, promotions, branding, marketing, advertising, admin, legal, bar work, customer services and sales. I have also got myself trained in a good few beauty treatments including nails and lashes, not for myself to do the treatments but so that I can know what my staff should be trained in and be capable of doing and also to in the case of sick days I could fill in for staff.
Would you advise me to do it or not? I will be using my life savings to do it. The salon that I would be opening will be in the town centre, and would be a fun salon which does get ready type treatments, so make up, lashes, brows, bouncy blow drys, facials, make up, nails and pedicures.
I really want to run my own business having worked for someone else for so long and my passion is the beauty industry but I understand that beauty/hair is a bit of a revolving door for new salons that crash and burn
I understand that staffing will always be an issue and also one of my biggest hurdles will be initial customers as I don't have a book of customers as I have never worked in the industry myself.
Please be brutally honest as I cannot afford to just throw away my nest egg on something that is sure to be a flop.
I have the opportunity and desire to open a salon and run it myself from the business side of things. I have worked with my partner in many different types of businesses and in many different positions to the point where I am now experienced in payroll, bookkeeping, accounts, promotions, branding, marketing, advertising, admin, legal, bar work, customer services and sales. I have also got myself trained in a good few beauty treatments including nails and lashes, not for myself to do the treatments but so that I can know what my staff should be trained in and be capable of doing and also to in the case of sick days I could fill in for staff.
Would you advise me to do it or not? I will be using my life savings to do it. The salon that I would be opening will be in the town centre, and would be a fun salon which does get ready type treatments, so make up, lashes, brows, bouncy blow drys, facials, make up, nails and pedicures.
I really want to run my own business having worked for someone else for so long and my passion is the beauty industry but I understand that beauty/hair is a bit of a revolving door for new salons that crash and burn
I understand that staffing will always be an issue and also one of my biggest hurdles will be initial customers as I don't have a book of customers as I have never worked in the industry myself.
Please be brutally honest as I cannot afford to just throw away my nest egg on something that is sure to be a flop.