Creative Keren
Creative Nail Studio
Hi geeks, it's been a while since I've posted on here but I'm in a real pickle and need some sound advice from my fellow geeks. I'll try my best to condense this...
I started my business two years ago and originally I was mobile. I HATED it as I got fed up of driving for miles and someone not being in because they 'forgot' or them always trying to haggle on prices. An opportunity came for me to be salon based on a % basis and I snapped it up. I got my fingers seriously burnt as the clowns didn't have a clue what they were doing and demanded that I lower my prices down to (e.g) £10 for a set of l&p with free nail art. So, I left very tactfully I might say but they weren't happy and tried their absolute best to tarnish my rep and so I struggled for a few months but continued to push on through. I've been at a different salon now for over a year and I love it. I'm so lucky that the owner and I (there's no one else there) get on so well and everything seems to be so easy and enjoyable but here's where a few spanners got thrown into the works.
I rent a space from her but together we have built up a really good reputation and client base but over the past few months it's been getting very quiet for both of us. We've tried various things, ladies nights, amazing offers, incorporated loyalty scheme and more but it's not really been doing anything. I've been struggling to pay her our agreed weekly rent recently and some days we have not one soul in. She's said to me that she's looking into opening a home salon and getting costing etc to see if she can get her garage converted. So chances are the salon won't be there in a few months time.
She's invited me to come and work with her on the same basis but at her home salon which is great but now I really don't know what to do. I live in a 2bed apartment and don't have the room for a home salon - perhaps a nail station but that'd be in my lounge and I worry that it's not going to give the right impression for my business. Another option is for me to move to a larger property and open my own home salon but then I wonder with things being so slow, if it carries on how will I afford a bigger place and the bills?
Then I saw a small salon that's on the market to rent at £495 PCM that used to be a hairdressers. I looked into it briefly and the location is good with hardly any competition around that side of town but again do I really want to take on more expense? My last option is to get a full time job and carry on with my regular clients around my job, working from home and save up to move and open my own home salon.
I've worked SO hard building up a loyal client base and put everything into my business so I don't want to give it up or feel like I taking a huge step back.
Please can someone give me some advice or their opinion.
Thanks geeks
I started my business two years ago and originally I was mobile. I HATED it as I got fed up of driving for miles and someone not being in because they 'forgot' or them always trying to haggle on prices. An opportunity came for me to be salon based on a % basis and I snapped it up. I got my fingers seriously burnt as the clowns didn't have a clue what they were doing and demanded that I lower my prices down to (e.g) £10 for a set of l&p with free nail art. So, I left very tactfully I might say but they weren't happy and tried their absolute best to tarnish my rep and so I struggled for a few months but continued to push on through. I've been at a different salon now for over a year and I love it. I'm so lucky that the owner and I (there's no one else there) get on so well and everything seems to be so easy and enjoyable but here's where a few spanners got thrown into the works.
I rent a space from her but together we have built up a really good reputation and client base but over the past few months it's been getting very quiet for both of us. We've tried various things, ladies nights, amazing offers, incorporated loyalty scheme and more but it's not really been doing anything. I've been struggling to pay her our agreed weekly rent recently and some days we have not one soul in. She's said to me that she's looking into opening a home salon and getting costing etc to see if she can get her garage converted. So chances are the salon won't be there in a few months time.
She's invited me to come and work with her on the same basis but at her home salon which is great but now I really don't know what to do. I live in a 2bed apartment and don't have the room for a home salon - perhaps a nail station but that'd be in my lounge and I worry that it's not going to give the right impression for my business. Another option is for me to move to a larger property and open my own home salon but then I wonder with things being so slow, if it carries on how will I afford a bigger place and the bills?
Then I saw a small salon that's on the market to rent at £495 PCM that used to be a hairdressers. I looked into it briefly and the location is good with hardly any competition around that side of town but again do I really want to take on more expense? My last option is to get a full time job and carry on with my regular clients around my job, working from home and save up to move and open my own home salon.
I've worked SO hard building up a loyal client base and put everything into my business so I don't want to give it up or feel like I taking a huge step back.
Please can someone give me some advice or their opinion.
Thanks geeks