Hi there, you can advertise on salon geek, also beauty guild and the normal local stuff like friday adds etc. But honestly the first place I would advertise is on the window of your salon.
Please, please have a written contract. All to often we have salon owners and nail techs on here very bitter at moving on, mostly over the who the clients belong to as the issue.
So if you are happy to say the nail clients will be the techs if she moves on, get it in writing, if not, get it in writing
Rent, that depends on where you are, it can be anything from £60 a week to £100 a day.
For a new tech with no clients the way to help them build would be to say rather than rent for the first 6 months you want a %
If the tech is supplying all their own stock, 25% of what they make is a fair amount, then after 6 months you can review together and work out what would be a fair rent worked on the avarage figure from the % for the last 6 months.
If you are supplying all the products than 40 to 50% for you would be a better rate.
For that, I as a nail tech would expect to be able to keep a copy of my diary at the salon, so that when I'm busy or not there your staff can take my bookings, I would need you to call me when you take bookings not wait until I come in because I too would be taking bookings for myself, this would also mean I would call the salon when I needed to update you.
I would want to be able to use your card machine, the way this has worked for me in the past was my customer would pay by card and I would be given the cash from the till.
I had an envelope in the safe and at the end of every day I would put the salons 25% in there.
The salon should put the tech on their web site, if they have one and a nice poster in the window is a big help, even when the tech has a table sat at the window it's amazing how many people say they didn't realise there was a nail tech there until they saw the poster
From the law side of things you need to be clear as to who is responsible for insurance, it's amazing how many misunderstandings arise because the tech thinks they are covered by the salon and the salon assume the tech has their own insurance.
If you have staff I feel it's important to make it clear that the nail tech is responsible for cleaning their own area and not be on the rota for the salon, bottom line they are self employed, don't get paid sick leave or holiday pay and you are not responsible for them or how they run their business.
Again on this site I have seen many self employed techs become angry when a salon owner or their staff, tries to treat them like an employee instead of another business owner. I'm sure others will be along with advise for you, this is just my experience and my take on how things work.
hth