harmonyholistic
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Hi I have an opportunity to work within a gym in my home town. I have recently qualified in male face body and intimate waxing. I qualified with Andy rouillard at axiom body works. So I am axiom certified. I am also qualified in female intimate waxing but not with axiom body works. But considering doing redoing this with axiom sometime in the future. . I do also have many other qualifications. Including sports massage ( qualified fourteen years so this is the old qualification not the new one ) aromatherapy, Indian head massage, reflexology, hot stones massage and Hopi ear candling. I also have my level two in beauty therapy and I'm a cnd trained shellac technician. I am also qualified at level two nail technology. But acrylics are very much my weak point and I'm not happy with the results. The rest of my treatments are spot on and I feel well above average. I use top quality products
At the moment I only have a very small client base. So still in the building stage. But the town I li in is saturated with nail technicians and beauty therapists so competition is fierce.
I have been working from home. But don't get a lot of clients. I think people are suspicious of the fact that I work from home and they undervalue my abilities because of this.
I'm not sure where to go now. I have the chance to work within a local gym in the town center. But I'm worried that in the early days I may struggle to make the rent. I do get working families tax credits at the moment and I'm able to live on that whilst I build up my business up to now I've not made any profit from my business as everything I do earn has been used to buy products and investing in training. It has cost me lot of money up to now and I'm almost at a point where I don't need too much more.
I'm not sure what to whether to continue working from home and advertise rigorously. Or to take the chance of renting this room. But I am worried that the fact that the gym is a serious body builders gym it may put ladies off coming to me for there treatments.
They have two rooms in there. One large room. Which would cost me £350 a month and one small room that would cost £250 a month.
I'm am mindful of the fact that that it is much safer to work within the gym. For the male intimate waxing and male treatments in general and in time I would like to specialise in male and female waxing and male grooming and drop the beauty side of things. I am the only qualified male waxing specilist within a forty mile radius. No one else offers male intimate waxing or body waxing.
I am not sure what to do. If I rent the small room it would be too small to fit a nail desk in. But if I rent the large room then I can easily fit all my clients in for treatments. Male and female. But if I rent the larger room then I'm worried that I will struggle to pay the rent as £350 a month is a lot of money when your already on a low income. If I'm in the small room I would have to drop the nail treatments altogether and continue to offer this at home.
Can anyone offer any advice here. Does anyone know if I would be able to survive with the quals I have if I found that female clients are put off. How quickly do you think I would be in a position to make the full rent value. Because I know that I would struggle the way things are now. But I have only just started offering the full male waxing service. I know that the gym would provide some clients during competition time. As the owner of the gym had pointed out to me.n
At the moment I only have a very small client base. So still in the building stage. But the town I li in is saturated with nail technicians and beauty therapists so competition is fierce.
I have been working from home. But don't get a lot of clients. I think people are suspicious of the fact that I work from home and they undervalue my abilities because of this.
I'm not sure where to go now. I have the chance to work within a local gym in the town center. But I'm worried that in the early days I may struggle to make the rent. I do get working families tax credits at the moment and I'm able to live on that whilst I build up my business up to now I've not made any profit from my business as everything I do earn has been used to buy products and investing in training. It has cost me lot of money up to now and I'm almost at a point where I don't need too much more.
I'm not sure what to whether to continue working from home and advertise rigorously. Or to take the chance of renting this room. But I am worried that the fact that the gym is a serious body builders gym it may put ladies off coming to me for there treatments.
They have two rooms in there. One large room. Which would cost me £350 a month and one small room that would cost £250 a month.
I'm am mindful of the fact that that it is much safer to work within the gym. For the male intimate waxing and male treatments in general and in time I would like to specialise in male and female waxing and male grooming and drop the beauty side of things. I am the only qualified male waxing specilist within a forty mile radius. No one else offers male intimate waxing or body waxing.
I am not sure what to do. If I rent the small room it would be too small to fit a nail desk in. But if I rent the large room then I can easily fit all my clients in for treatments. Male and female. But if I rent the larger room then I'm worried that I will struggle to pay the rent as £350 a month is a lot of money when your already on a low income. If I'm in the small room I would have to drop the nail treatments altogether and continue to offer this at home.
Can anyone offer any advice here. Does anyone know if I would be able to survive with the quals I have if I found that female clients are put off. How quickly do you think I would be in a position to make the full rent value. Because I know that I would struggle the way things are now. But I have only just started offering the full male waxing service. I know that the gym would provide some clients during competition time. As the owner of the gym had pointed out to me.n
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