Im opening a new hair salon any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. I have owned a salon before and sold it last year I got a job working in retail but realised it was just a hiding to nothing and really miss being self employed and the freedom it entails. A lot of people warned me that once you have been self employed in my case for eight years its very hard to go back to being an employee I had to learn the hard way of course.
My old business originated as sunbed shop and did really well for the first few years and then I went and retrained as a Hairdresser as I had originally been an apprentice for Charles Worthington in London but I never completed my training due to the financial aspect of living In London and the wages an apprentice gets.
I have no intention of getting into the sunbed game again as it entails long hours and gets so much bad press. Im just worried if there's a market for a new salon as there seem to be salon's opening and closing every few weeks these days.
Just wondered how other salon's are doing what your main area of business is and how you recruit new customers? Should I go down the extention route are brazillian blow drys doing well for people? And is there a large number of repeat business for route re touches etc?
Im just worried because the last time I had a salon the majority of customers we seemed to attract where colour corrections from xxl box dyes etc and just worried a hair salon is a big risk in todays economy.
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
My old business originated as sunbed shop and did really well for the first few years and then I went and retrained as a Hairdresser as I had originally been an apprentice for Charles Worthington in London but I never completed my training due to the financial aspect of living In London and the wages an apprentice gets.
I have no intention of getting into the sunbed game again as it entails long hours and gets so much bad press. Im just worried if there's a market for a new salon as there seem to be salon's opening and closing every few weeks these days.
Just wondered how other salon's are doing what your main area of business is and how you recruit new customers? Should I go down the extention route are brazillian blow drys doing well for people? And is there a large number of repeat business for route re touches etc?
Im just worried because the last time I had a salon the majority of customers we seemed to attract where colour corrections from xxl box dyes etc and just worried a hair salon is a big risk in todays economy.
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
