indulgebeauty
Active Member
ok here goes...........
I took over a sunbed shop nearly 3 years ago and was 3 months pregnant, the previous owner had a bad reputation ( people drinking in the shop, not turning up to open most days etc) so when i opened ( under new management) i had a lot of customers coming in for a nose and deciding to come back.
I changed the name and was happy with the amount of customers i had. After i gave birth some 6 weeks later i went to college and done nvq level 2 beauty, i started advertising for models and was doing my treatments really cheap, just to cover my products!
I may have put some customers off with me not doind the treatments as well as i should, anyway then i went to college and done a nail enhancement course, again i was doing these in the salon while i was training for £10 per set and had lots of people in but not coming back.
Now i have been qualified for 18 months and i am finding it hard to get those customers back in.
My weekly takings have not improved as much as i'd liked, i take roughly 5-600 per week mostly on the sunbeds and my overheads are sky high as i have opened another salon in a better part of the town and now i have to pay out wages!
I am thinking of selling the shop after xmas if all doesn't pick up! The shop has potential and i have spent alot of money on the basement converting it into 2 beauty rooms or to rent out to a holistic therapist which would contribute towards the rent and encourage more customrs to come in!
Anyway the advice i need is, do i sell my salon after xmas when the lease runs out at the end of jan, and focus on my other salon? Or do i plod along like i have done the last 2 and half years and hope word of mouth travels?
I can't afford to advertise although i have taken out one of the plasma screen adverts int he local post office which is crammed every day.
I am on a dead end road with hardly any passing trade!
sorry if my dilema is long winded i am at the end of my tether!
I took over a sunbed shop nearly 3 years ago and was 3 months pregnant, the previous owner had a bad reputation ( people drinking in the shop, not turning up to open most days etc) so when i opened ( under new management) i had a lot of customers coming in for a nose and deciding to come back.
I changed the name and was happy with the amount of customers i had. After i gave birth some 6 weeks later i went to college and done nvq level 2 beauty, i started advertising for models and was doing my treatments really cheap, just to cover my products!
I may have put some customers off with me not doind the treatments as well as i should, anyway then i went to college and done a nail enhancement course, again i was doing these in the salon while i was training for £10 per set and had lots of people in but not coming back.
Now i have been qualified for 18 months and i am finding it hard to get those customers back in.
My weekly takings have not improved as much as i'd liked, i take roughly 5-600 per week mostly on the sunbeds and my overheads are sky high as i have opened another salon in a better part of the town and now i have to pay out wages!
I am thinking of selling the shop after xmas if all doesn't pick up! The shop has potential and i have spent alot of money on the basement converting it into 2 beauty rooms or to rent out to a holistic therapist which would contribute towards the rent and encourage more customrs to come in!
Anyway the advice i need is, do i sell my salon after xmas when the lease runs out at the end of jan, and focus on my other salon? Or do i plod along like i have done the last 2 and half years and hope word of mouth travels?
I can't afford to advertise although i have taken out one of the plasma screen adverts int he local post office which is crammed every day.
I am on a dead end road with hardly any passing trade!
sorry if my dilema is long winded i am at the end of my tether!
