I want to start my own hair business

I want to start my own hair business

One day you wake up and say, “ I want to start my own hair business ” how can I start?

That moment, you feel the passion of starting something new. Every fresh idea energizes the human mind and that gives you a great boost. You feel happy. The creative part of your brain functions at top speed. You will produce one idea after the other. Nothing can stop you from thinking about that great dream you had “ I want to start my own hair business ”

Nothing?

The next thing is to start to search the internet for hair suppliers, you need hair to sell. Right? You talk to your best friends who all want to buy from you. On your tablet, you make a quick design of the website and of course you open your own Facebook page. Now you are in business, let’s go!

But:

But the hair suppliers start to eat your money for the samples you buy, your friends have found another new thing in town; they are in virtual reality glasses now. Nobody wants to follow you on Facebook. You lost the design of the website, you can’t find it anymore in your folders.

What happened to the enthusiasm?

There is a difference between the creative stage of having ideas or daydreams and the reality of building a business. From I want to start my own hair business you transform to I am building my own hair business. Now you need to bring structure. To build the machine that will go for growth. You should be sober and critical.
You must stop dreaming to start to work on your dream, your own hair business,

Free hair extensions for a fresh plan

I offer free hair extensions for all those with great plans to start selling hair, with one condition. The plan has to be unique and you must go for the long term. I realize these are two conditions, but it sells so much better if I mention there is only one condition to get free hair extensions.

Last week I received a growing number of mails. Hardly any one contains an idea that is ready to beat the competition. Or to change the hair industry for ever to make you stay in business for a long time.

Stop dreaming

Challenge your dreams. Understand the idea is only the piece of rock that contains the diamond that will build your hair business. Now it’s up to you to cut it into a business.
Use the dream that woke you up with the idea “ I want to start my own hair business ” as the start of your journey not as the result.
Write down the dream, and challenge it like somebody else told you about their dream. Think of:

  • Is the dream telling you a concept that is new or fresh for your market?
  • What is your market, to whom will you be selling?
  • How much money will you need to follow your dream, in your dream you do not have to pay for anything, in real life you do have to
  • Be honest, why will people leave their current supplier for your dream?

It feels bad to break a dream into pieces and to experience it was only a dream and will never be a business. If you feel the passion for hair you will keep on dreaming about your own store. One day you will have a dream that is rock sold, that is the foundation for your own hair business.

Keep on dreaming

So, next time you dream I want to start my own hair business, please do not start to buy hair right away but stop dreaming and challenge it. You will start you’re a successful business soon!

If you are ready get my eBook “From Dream to Your Own Hair Extensions Business, in Only 10 days”

Free Hair Extensions for Your Hair Salon

Free Hair Extensions for Your Hair Salon

Did you always wanted to open your own hair salon and to sell your own brand of hair extensions? Do you want people to talk about your brand when they visit their hair salon? Take note of the next tips and make your dream come true!

Location

This is, like in many businesses key factor number one. You can start your hair salon anywhere you want, but why wouldn’t you go for the easy way. You will find enough challenges on your path to a successful salon owner.

If you are doing your research walk through town. Look for a location with enough parking spots and the right and enough people passing by. Do not worry, you will earn back the extra time or money you invested in the right location.

You

Now you found the location, it’s time for a serious talk with yourself. Ask yourself the question. Are you the kind of person that is made of entrepreneurial material. Try to work in a salon for a day and focus only on the hair salon owner. Join a network meeting from salon owners and learn from them.

If you have doubt, better to wait and to continue with your current job or study.

Money

The reason to start a hair salon is most often to generate money. To pay the bills and to invest in the growth of the business. Your initial investment, or every cent you spend should be well considered. A luxurious salon does not mean the most expensive salon refurbishment in town. Improve the style over time if needed. You and your team make the business, not a chair that is too expensive for you to keep on smiling. Remember you need to get the word out so keep some money aside to invest in marketing.

Promotion

Do not think because you know you are open for business, your clients know also. Your brains might fool you. You will believe the whole world thinking about your project and can’t wait for you to open your doors. But truth is, even your best friends have their own priorities and they might forget your big day.

Tell the world who you are and where they can find you, and what they miss if they forget to enter your salon.

Test your marketing message, too often what is clear for you isn’t for others. Keep on improving your marketing message. Do not feel ashamed to ask others what they think you mention. It will surprise you how people understand your words.

Are you ready to open your hair salon?

Good luck and do not forget to leave a comment to tell me you are open for business!

 

You want to do more, stop multitasking

You want to do more, stop multitasking

Okay, women are superior to men because they are great in multitasking. You can outperform yourself if a few hours a week you forget your multitasking capacity skills and go to single-tasking mode.

Why multitasking?

You can call a client, watch the webcam in your toddler’s room and answer the questions your assistant was thinking of asking you. All at the same time. That’s multitasking in optima forma. But does this bring you the highest level of quality? Probably not. Try this new strategy for one month and share with me the results.

Try Single-tasking

To grow your business, you need to dedicate time, the focus day as I mentioned before. It will amaze you that you will be able to make giant steps in improving your operations. Your sales or marketing if you use the single-tasking technique. How?

To start stop thinking you must do everything, or to keep an eye on everything. Multitasking is no control mechanism, it’s just doing a lot of things at the same time. Although your brain is not limited to 10 questions a second, to divide the attention is reducing the focus and thus the quality. That’s why most people, or at least I do, have the best ideas under the shower. Under the shower, you do not have to check your smartphone, watch your kids or the food on the fire. There is only one thing to do, and that’s taking a shower.

How does it work

You only need three techniques

Off your Wi-Fi

Block out the distractions, for example off your Wi-Fi or internet. This will feel like you are naked in the middle of town, but trust me. This will give you the feeling you are free again. No messages that pop up, no breaking news on your screen or you got mail. No absolute freedom will be your part. In fact, the feeling of freedom will free your most creative brain capacity. And this is one out of three techniques to stop you from inefficient multitasking.

Book an appointment with Mr.? in your calendar

The next one is to block an appointment with Mr? on a regular day in your calendar and never ever cancel this appointment. Block 3 to 4 hours a week and make sure you use this time to focus. If you share your calendar with others, your PA, your partner or I do not know whom. They will see the appointment with Mr.? and they will not ask more. They will respect your secret and you will have your dedicated time with … yourself and the issues you need to tackle to expand your business.

This is going to hurt

The last one will pain you, but turn your phone on the airplane mode. Now you are disconnected from planet earth. Only off the airplane mode when you are at the end of your focus time. Close your eyes and let the flow of missed calls, voices mails and messages fill your screen. Do not fear, because you took your company to a higher level with your focus time. So, all the people who tried to contact you the last three hours will benefit too.

One month and the business will grow

As I said, give it a try for one month. Please stick to it for a month and leave a comment below this post if you are going to try. Keep me updated if it works for you and I will do the same. At the end of the month the single-tasking will have brought your business to a higher level and the only multitasking is to deal with the extra flow of sales.

 

How to find small business ideas to sell hair

How to find small business ideas to sell hair

Money is important for a lot of things. Before you look for cash it is better to work on your small business ideas first. Work on a small business at low cost right from the start. By doing so, you will keep your enthusiasm and you can start selling hair very fast. Let me guide you to find small business ideas for selling hair or the beauty industry.

New Product or Service Development

Your business will only succeed if you have a new product or service your market needs. Only companies like Apple create products nobody needed, until brought to the market. You will have to listen well to your potential clients.

Girls talk

The first step is to gather your best friends, and some of their best friends and start to talk hair. No need to share your ambition for your own store. But find an excuse to talk hair with a group of say 10 girls. Prepare this gathering with a list of items you would like to have their ideas about when they leave. Think about what they like and do not like about hair extensions and stores. Or the way they search for new hair products. Keep the conversation going and make notes to get small business ideas. Read the chapters about how to listen to the market and potential clients in my eBook.

E-book Start your own hair business in only 10 days

Desktop research

Now you have an idea about the needs of a significant group of potential clients. Use this information to perform some serious research. Use Google or social media and write down your observations from the girls talk session.

You will have a list of:

  • suggestions,
  • ideas,
  • bad and
  • good remarks about the hair extensions stores.
    Now you must turn these into small business ideas for hair stores. Validate the remarks with the desktop research. Again, do not forget to make notes.




Your own experience

If you already sell hair or any other beauty product. Do not forget to consider your quality assurance process. What is not going well and what activities lead to customer complaints for example. You can learn from your mistakes. This is the moment to learn and to convert these mistakes into small business ideas. Do not forget to talk to suppliers, they might have some interesting ideas too.

Market research

If you review the outcome of the Girls Talk, your desktop research and your own experience, you have a complete picture of the needs. The best way to confirm these observations is to perform a market or customer research. Part of this market research are your competitors. Analyze them and learn from them.

Pick your small business ideas

Now you are almost done, you have a lot of information and a lot of small business ideas. Now you should put the list away and do not look at it for 72 hours. Do something different and let your brains do the work at the background.

After 70 hours, you take a blank piece of paper. Write down the criteria you will use to check your small business ideas.

Think of:

  • most identified customer needs
  • product improvements most needed
  • the benefits to your target market
  • the technical feasibility of the idea
  • the level and scope of research and development required
  • the profitability of the idea. What is its potential appeal to the market? How would you price it?
  • where the product fits in the market. Is there a gap? How close is it to competitor products?
  • the resources it will need in development

Check all the ideas of your list using these criteria. You will see some will disqualify and others will stay relevant.

Now you have one or two well thought ideas you can start to work on for your small business.

Women, start taking care of yourself!

Women, start taking care of yourself!

I do believe we all have the skills to be successful, regardless if you are a man or a woman. But what I see is women, too many times, must carry a double load of responsibilities in life. This holds them back of being successful in business.

When they are young, they must keep an eye on their little brother. I have to be honest, this is what I ask my daughters too, who all are senior to my little son.

When they grow up, they take care of their father, (I do hope) and the rest of their family. Always there is somebody else to take care of. Big sisters never stop to ask how the rest is doing.

The number of women in top positions of most organizations is too small. But how can you become a CEO of a company if you first must take care of everybody else in that same company. You have to be a cold-hearted woman not to see the needs of the others on your way to the top.

Does this mean woman will always lack behind. Will women never become the President of the U.S.A.? No, I do believe the next president will be a black woman. But because there is only one place at the top many others can follow by taking care of themselves more. The world will not come to an end if you decide to think of your needs, your dreams and yourself first.

And please If you are successful, do not forget to tell the world you are behind this success. For some reason the architect of all, forgot to install this loudspeaker in women. Men will claim any success of their department or company. Women prefer to share the honor with others.

Finally, if you do not want to accept a lower pay for the same work done by a man, stop working for a business lead by men. Start a woman’s only business or your own store and give yourself a better place.

I know it’s no Sunday, but I felt I had to share this, if you do not agree please let me know!