Hair Extensions

Hair Extensions

Jun 28, 2015 | Get Help

Question: Thanks for replying to me so rapidly, I am not a shop owner or professional cosmetologist at this time, I want to get into selling of the hair to not only make extra money, but also to help other in my community that may need or want the hair right then, without having to wait for a period of time to rec’d it, is this the path I need to take to set up an online business to sell the hair? If not please excuse me for wasting your time.

Answer:  First of all, I am very happy to receive and to answer your questions. Please feel free to contact me, because I think you have the right motivation to start a business in beauty. Not only to make some or a lot of extra money, but also because you want to help your clients.

There are some places where people are forced to travel far to get hair and of course if you can set up an online hair extensions business, with a kind of showroom or small salon you can make the life of your clients easier. If your clients are see you offer something extra, and they do not have to travel anymore, you can get a loyal clientele.

The great part is, you can start small and grow in line with the growth of your number of visitors and clients. Make sure you have a smart inventory at hand; this will help you to never say no to a client.

Make sure you organize a client survey, to know how many clients in your area are interested and what they expect from a hair selling shop.

While you interview them make sure you take note of their email account so you can contact them when you are in business.

Try to find out:

  • The types of hair extensions they are looking for
  • The hair extensions prices they are willing to pay
  • If they need hair extensions information, so you can educate them in the use
  • If they only want human hair extensions

The online business you can start using social media but for little money you can also open a website with web shop.

Make sure you register the name, check for names or below to find if the domain name is still available.

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I am interested in how to sell hair extension

I am interested in how to sell hair extension

Jun 28, 2015 | Get Help

Question: I am interested in how to sell hair extension, as I know this is a great business. I have read the reviews and is very impressing. I can be contact at gmail.com

 

Answer: Thanks for your email and indeed selling hair extensions is a very great business, because you can combine passion for beauty, making other people feel good and making money together.

Before to start your own business, so before you start to buy hair samples or contact customers, you need to ask yourself ¨Am I ready to become an entrepreneur?¨ Do not only ask yourself the question, but also some friends or relatives. Ask them to be frank and honest, questions like:

  • Am I creative to find solutions that will come on my path
  • Can I make tough decisions on my own, can I handle to take care of risks
  • Am I open for the advice of others, but capable of making my own decision at the end


Check for more our eBook ¨From Dream to your Own Hair Business, in Only 10 Days¨ or follow our training. Here you will also find a SWOT analyses to find first your Weaknesses and Threats to turn them into Opportunities to become the bestselling hair shop!

If you are ready with the above, you can start to look what your clients are looking for, using a market survey for example.

Supplies, cheap hair, getting customers

Supplies, cheap hair, getting customers

Jun 28, 2015 | Get Help

Question: Supplies, cheap hair, getting customers

 

Answer: A question received from Harriet from Nigeria. This question, although very direct, points an interesting issue. Is it smart to attract customers with cheap hair? Our answer is No, because first of all you need a lot of customers to make a good margin or your suppliers have to give you the cheapest hair ever. For a startup it is not easy to gain so much market share right away, so not a good solution. Next to this, your most important and valuable asset is a loyal client base.

If your customers are happy with your hair and service, they will stay loyal even if the competition offers cheaper hair. But if they only buy from you because the hair is cheap, you will lose them the moment they find a supplier with even cheaper hair. Go for expertise and passion and not for cheap!

Is starting your own hair business ethical when you are a single mother

Is starting your own hair business ethical when you are a single mother

Jun 28, 2015 | Make Your Dream Happen

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Is starting your own hair business ethical when you are a single mother with limited funds?

Long time ago, I was asked if starting your own hair business is ethical when you are a single mother with limited funds. This question, asked for the first time in 2015, is still relevant. The question of this mother is about where to put your priorities? When you invest time and money in your own hair business as a single mother, do you take away what should be in the first place for your own kids? First, my deepest respect for combining the care for your family and the ambition to start a hair and beauty business.

There are several examples of mothers, single or not, who must share their attention and resources like money with their own business and their family. Let us see how they deal with this.

The Nurse

One of my clients is working as a nurse, and the last two years have been rather hectic. For a long time, her passion is with making people feel good. She loves hair and to give girls and women access to the best quality hair has becoming more and more important for her. As a nurse she loves to care for her patients, and she feels the reward when people recover from a bad disease. Working during the pandemic, with co workers who got sick is not easy. It requires more and more time, extra hours, and hours during the best time of her day. This leaves her very little time for her family and the dream to grow her own hair business. Often when she is ready to dedicate time to her hair store, the kids ask for attention. And we all know who gets priority. Although not direct the money, it is about where do you allocate your time to? To your family, your hair store and what about yourself?

The storemanager

There is a very ambitious lady, who works nearly full time as a store manager of a supermarket. During the pandemic supermarkets where very often considered to be essential stores. Thus, long opening hours and many, many clients. Everything comes together, stress, training new colleagues and here also, long hours. How to combine this with a young family where the kids must follow online lessons and that great dream to grow your hair and beauty business.

After a long day in the supermarket, that often starts early in the morning, little energy was left after dedicating time to the family. What choice did she had to make, family or the hair business?

The single mom who could not buy diapers

From Kenya, I can share the story of the single mother who had to take care of three kids, the youngest was still wearing diapers. To get the financial means she wanted to start a hair store. Start small and grown step by step to a hair business that will generate enough financial means to support her family. Everybody kept healthy during the pandemic, but the savings for the hair store had to be used for buying the essentials, like diapers. She was forced to use the capital she saved to start her own business and to give her kids opportunities, to use the capital for diapers. She had to give up her dream when her capital was finished. Now she did not had the money to start her business but she neither had the money to buy diapers.

Did she make the right choice?

What choice to make as a single mother?

Clear, when you have a partner the burden of taking care of the family can be split and there can be an extra source of income, when you start selling hair because the time is right!. But what if your partner is not able or willing to support/ Or indeed if you are a single mother with limited money? What choice can you make?

Women of the world unit!

One of the beautiful characteristics of the hair industry is, the store owners all want to make others look and feel good. Sometimes the focus is more on to feel good. This means you care for others. You can look for partners. Loom for other women who are interested too in starting a hair business. Or perhaps are stylist and want to add new services to their business. Join forces and see how you can work together, inspire each other, support each other, and create the best hair business of the region.

There a plenty of examples where mothers and daughters, or sisters join to start a hair business. One of my clients is a brother who started the online hair business on Shopify and his elderly sister is helping him. But next to family you can also think of friends or other professionals in the neighborhood. Visit hair salons or stylist nearby and work together to create mutual clients. You deliver the hair, and they do the install and fixing.
Perhaps you must accept to change the name of the business, perhaps you must listen to the ideas of somebody else more, but it will give you additional support.

Working together will also free up time to take care of your family, you will still be able to help your kids with the homework, or just to listen to their stories when they come home from school. Or you will have the time to follow a course.

Automate

You can also opt to set up an online hair store that is as much as automated as possible. Not only a store to display your products, but added with plugins to market, retarget clients and to optimize your pricing. It would be an initial investment in the automatization first, but you can get a hair business that is more and more doing the work itself. This saves time and money, plus your business will be more competitive
Contact us if you want to know if this solution can work for you.

How to have enough hair at hand but at the lowest level of stock

How to have enough hair at hand but at the lowest level of stock

Jun 28, 2015 | Inventory

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A shop full of hair extensions, different textures, different lengths and everything available that’s what most of your clients are looking for. But how much money can you afford to keep all this stock in the house? And what if it takes a long time before your 24 and taller lengths are sold. You can´t spend money that is invested in stock.

So what would be the right balance between an inventory at hand that you can use to satisfy the needs of your clients at the moment they want to buy and a limited amount invested in your stock.

First of all start to make sure you keep record of your inventory. This will learn you over time the required level of stock. You will see over time at what occasions or seasons a specific time of hair is in demand. Knowing this you can anticipate on this when purchasing hair.

Also if you do not want to sell a no, you can buy smart lengths. This is buying lengths that will allow you offer two lengths; all you have to do is to talk the client into the right length or texture.

Make sure you always have some 14 inch of hair extensions, 18 inch and 22 inch of length in the house. If your client is looking for 12 inch for example, she can buy the 14 inch and trim it to the right length. You can decide to offer her a small discount if she buys the taller length, but do not be surprised your client is so much in buying hair she will except the beautiful 14 inch just like that. The same goes for the 18 inch for clients looking for 16 inch.

 

If your client is in the mood to buy new hair, she does not want to wait; this helps to let her decide to buy a longer length. But sometimes it helps to offer her a small compensation, a discount or free hair product.

Based upon your experience you can also keep taller lengths at hand, but this depends on the needs of your clients.

For the texture, it´s mostly wavy or natural curly that is in demand, but keep an eye on the celebs. They will tell you what will become hot, so you can anticipate deep curls if famous celebs suddenly change her style into deep curls.

And check for hair extensions suppliers who are able to keep enough hair in stock themselves. This will reduce your own stock.

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