Registering and advertising as mobile

[Penny Vintage]

Hello all, this is my 1st thread! I am abit stuck with advertising and registering. Basically, I qualified in december as a nail tech and had a fulltime job so was practising on friends and family then work fell off and was taken away from my admin role, instead of sacking me they found a job for me to do but its only 2 or 3 days a Month.
My whole plan was to go mobile with my nails, and work at my current job as well. But Ive had alot of trouble finding ways of advertising, I want to go with yell.com and local papers but I need to be registered for this. So I called today to register etc and they said until I have my 1st customer I cant register.. But that means I cant advertise :Look_righ no customers
I dont have money to advertise at the moment, so I feel kind of stuck... Im also filling out the paperwork to get working tax credits so wanted to go self employed now so I can fill it in the form too, rather than ring them and change it a week or two later...
I dont know what to do at the moment, I feel like Im in limbo :?:

 

[essenceofbeauty]

Hiya!
I qualified in Beauty about 3 years ago now and like you wanted to do it mobile along side my current job. I didnt want to pay out on advertising etc so i got a few leaflets printed on vistaprint.co.uk (its free except the postage which comes to like £5 for 100 postcard size leaflets) The down side is it says it take 3 weeks to come (usually only takes 2 weeks but they like to cover themselves as it is abroad)

I then just did a few leaflet drops with these and put them on local boards etc. I also put myself on yell.com (just did it via the website) they didnt ask me about customers though?

Also try Gumtree that is great!

Hope this helps x

 

[The Beauty Shed]

That is rubbish!!! You can advertise with anyone before registering as self-employed, I have never even been asked if I'm registered or not. Just go for it, but I would check with local businesses if yell has worked for them as I wasted hundreds on advertising and never got 1 phone call!!! It may just be area though, I don't know, I just have the free listing now (and you can do that online).

I have heard netmums is great for free advertising too but haven't got round to that one yet.

Good luck x

 

[lelaah]

I find having a web address, and graphics on car help, also the free local news paper. You can certainly reg as self employed any time, and dont need to be registered to advertise.

 

[Bettierae]

What about a facebook profile in your salon name. Its worked fantastic for me, and i've only had it up and running a month. hth x x