What to sell in a hair boutique in Kenya

Sep 8, 2019 | Get Help, Kenya, Launch Your Web Store, Make Your Dream Happen

Your dream is to open a hair boutique in Kenya. You want to make the women from Kenya look and feel good. And you want to also earn some nice money. This is possible. All you need to do is to perform a market survey to see what others offer and what you can do better! This post will help you to get some business ideas for what to sell in a hair boutique in Kenya.

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In the meantime you talk hair with your potential clients. Why do they want to buy hair, how many times do they buy hair, what are their biggest disappointments buying hair? This information will help you to get an extensive understanding of the need of the women you want to sell hair to.

Now all you need to do is to combine these two surveys. The market survey of the competition and the results of the talks with the ladies and girls who want to buy hair. You will now be able to see exactly what the market, the competition, is not offering, but your potential clients do need. You will see now, what to sell in a hair boutique in Kenya.

Easier said than done?

Let me help you to start with this. I already did a market survey of 10 stores selling hair and beauty products in Kenya. I visited the shop of Dreadlocks Nairobi Kenya and Luxury Hair by Angie for example. All you need to do is to compare the offerings of these stores with the needs of your clients and you can start selling hair!

Leave a comment if you are interested in my market survey for Kenya and get all the ideas you need to launch and grow your hair boutique in Kenya.

Hello, are you still engaged in the hair business?

Mar 22, 2019 | Get Help

Still engaged in the hair business

Today I received a sweet app with the questions if I was still engaged in the hair business. All the way from Kenya, Beth reached out to me.

Off course I immediately started to think what made Beth think if I have turned my back to the beautiful hair business. Will others have the same feeling. What did I do to feed this idea?

Messages from all over the world

Every day I receive messages from women from all over the world, from the United States to the mother continent Africa and even Asia with questions on:

• Give me more information about doing a website (Veronica)
• I am interested in hair selling, but have no leads, can you help me? (Leah)
• I would like to start selling hair in Keicho, please help (Tecla)
• Please send me info on how to become a wholesaler of hair in Kenya and Ethiopia (Dina)
• And many more

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But now, thanks to Beth, I realize I forgot the last months to share with you the news and tips. For quite some time I did not write a post anymore. I am sorry for this, because I am still very much engaged in this business. I worked hard on partnership with Shopify with awesome professional webstores websites and business plans for hair stores and that left me less time for publishing. I started with the business of sharing my advice about the start and growth of your hair business nearly 7 years ago already and I love the contact with all the ambitious women, girls and more and more men.

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You still inspire me

You all inspire me to think of solutions for the hurdles you face starting a hair extensions business, in a salon or online, as a retailer or wholesale company. I like to work around the clock and to have a skype call with in Emily Houston, in the middle of my night in The Netherlands, while Lydia in China contacts me just before she starts with her lunch.

I keep on helping you

I will renew my promise to help everybody to make her dream come true and to start selling hair and become financially independent. So yes I am still engaged in the hair business.

Start Selling Hair Extensions in Ethiopia

Feb 2, 2018 | Ethiopia

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“5 Reasons Why Ethiopian Women Shouldn’t Wear Weave” was the title of a blogpost that draw my attention last night. There is a growing number of women buying hair extensions in Ethiopia. It seems a many buy the hair extensions on Alibaba. If you love hair and want to make money, time for you to start selling hair extensions in Ethiopia.

First analyze the market needs and opportunities in Ethiopia

You can start selling synthetic hair or try to aim at the high-end market and offer high grade human hair extensions. It is important to define your clients and their spending power. Do not buy expensive human hair in an area with clients who are only able to buy lower priced hair.

A lot of hair brought into Ethiopia comes with people from traveling abroad. This is not a stable source if you have a growing hair business. If you want to start a successful hair business in Ethiopia, you need to set up a reliable supply chain. Find reliable hair suppliers abroad to ensure a constant flow of hair. If your hair business is growing, you can not afford to wait for your uncle to arrive back from the Middle East to bring some hair with him.

Talk with your potential customers

Start to look for people near you who are interested to buy hair extensions. Talk with them about all their needs for the hair extensions they are looking for.

Do ask for the struggle they face when buying hair extensions,
where do they search for the hair and
what is their opinion about the hair extensions other hair stores offer.

Make sure you have the contact details, phonenumber, email or social media, of everybody you spoke to about the hair extensions. They can become your first clients when you are ready to sell extensions.

Check stores that are selling hair extensions in Ethiopia

Now you know where your potential clients buy their hair extensions, it is time for you to pay a visit to some of these stores. This time not as a customer but as a spy!

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There are a couple of online stores you can visit to learn more about your business opportunities in Ethiopia.

Start with Habeni, hair extensions wholesale and retail, located in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Their about page is awesome because it gives you a good idea about their ambition and why they are selling hair extensions in Addis Ababa.

Habeni has four basic principles:

1. The quality of their hair.
2. Reasonable price.
3. Customer satisfaction.
4. Guarantee.

Habani claims to be the only hair extensions store in Ethiopia that gives guarantee on the hair they are selling.

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Their vision is:

Opening eight branches in different regions of Ethiopia within five years.

Opening three branches in East Africa within five years.

You can enjoy from this growth, if you are in Addis Ababa, Gondar or Adama lor your own town. In Addis Ababa you can even imagine having plenty of opportunities to start selling hair extensions.

Find Reliable Hair Suppliers Negotiate a discount for your next order

When you negotiate with the hair extensions suppliers about your trial order, try to get a discount for your first wholesale order. Show them you are serious about selling hair extensions and will only get back if the hair and the conditions are good.

Check if you will have to pay custom duties if you import hair extensions into Ethiopia. This avoids unpleasant surprises if you agreed a price with your clients for the extensions and you must pay a 20 or 30 percent to the government. Especially if you did not include this charge in your selling price.

Do you want to earn your money by selling hair?

Yes!

The Kickoff of your Hair Extensions Business

I recommend organizing a hair extensions party as a kick off. If you are one of the first to organize a hair extensions party in your area, you will get a lot of attention.

You do not need much money to organize the party and people will buy your hair at the party and you can see what they like and what not.

Grow your hair business

If you managed to sell your first wholesale order you can invest in a next but bigger order. If you go step by step you will not risk anything and only benefit from a growing number of people buying and talking about your hair extensions.

Good luck selling hair extensions in Ethiopia.

It makes me miserable when you don’t succeed selling hair extensions

Jan 22, 2018 | Launch Your Web Store, Make Your Business Grow, Make Your Dream Happen, Prepare for the Launch, Sell Online, WholeSale Companies

Every day I speak or chat with girls and women (and some men) who are full of passion to start selling hair. You can feel their ambition when they chat, to create a new hair brand that will make so many people in their community and further away to look and feel good. They all inspire me with their stories, their ideas and their commitment. After every chat, I feel the energy floating through my body! I look forward to make that person to succeed selling hair!

But every day, I also see people who give up. Because all their money is invested in hair extensions nobody wants to buy, or because nobody visits their website. This is the part of the business I do not like. Believe me, it makes me feel miserable every time I hear about somebody who stopped chasing her dream.

Because I believe every person deserves the best support to make her or his dream come true, I started how to sell hair extensions in 2012. I want to give you the best support at the lowest price possible, to support people, like you, who want to make the world a more beautiful place, while becoming financially independent in the meantime.

I started with a blog, followed by an eBook and one to one coaching for business planning, SEO, content marketing and support to create hair webstores. Today I have eBooks covering many areas of the business of selling hair, I introduce people to wholesalers, design websites ( this I told you already ;-)) and I love to promote ambitious hair stores.

If you have the dream to become a successful hair extensions re-seller or wholesaler, I am here to help you! For example with the all-in-one hair business package with hair samples. Get your package and work with your mentor grow your hair business! But you can also whatsapp me and ask me any question, because I want you to succeed selling hair!

How to start a hair business with no money and pay off all your debt

Dec 11, 2017 | All about money

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Starting a hair business generates happiness, beauty, and cash!

No money but you can still become rich!

What if you have no money, but still want to start a hair business? Or what if you have an idea that will change the hair market forever, but you have no money to start a hair business? Should you give up? Should you keep on having two jobs to make a living? No! There is no need to give in, because in this post I will explain how to start a hair business, even if you have no money!

Once or twice a month I receive a phone call, or app from a country in the Middle East. The girl on the other side tells me for example she is from Kenya and not from the region. She is working in a country like Qatar. She is planning to set up her own hair business when she returns to her home country. She saves money and wants to open a store to sell hair and beauty products. She will need the money for many things, and she wants to open her hair business in her town. My advice is to keep most of the money in her saving account but start an online hair business. A hair business that will generate enough money to become independent.

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Do you need a brick-and-mortar store?

Why would you need to give all your money to your landlord to rent a store? Every month he will be knocking on your door to ask for the rent, and he will never ask how much hair did you sell? Do you want that stress?

It feels awesome to open the doors of your own hair business in the morning. To see all that beautiful hair hanging, waiting for a buyer to take with her. But the hair on the wall is not generating any money, and neither will it pay your rent, until a customer buys the hair.

Many women contact me with the question how much money they need to start a hair business? Or they want to know how to start a hair business, or how to become a wig distributor with no money? The answer to “how to start a hair business“, depends on the kind of store you want. Or the hair your clients are looking for and how you want to market your hair.

To start an online hair business, the capital you need can be very close to zero. While at the same time to growth predictions for your online sales are amazing as you can see in the graph.

Instead of searching for a location for your hair store in town. Why not check on the internet for nice hair online hair stores to get inspired? It’s free and you can learn a lot from existing stores.

What is the cheapest way to start your hair store

Have you done the math already? Did you ever calculate, or even without putting the figures, what the expenses are for a hair store? Let me help you.

Expenses when you rent your store

When you rent your own store, be aware you will pay:

for the 25%-10% of space you can’t use: You will have to pay for every square feet, even if this floor is not a suitable space for selling. That is a waste of money
for expenses that are not linked to the space: Your landlord might charge additional expenses, like out of the pocket or tax, while these expenses do not increase the quality of the space.
the electricity bill of the other tenants: Make sure you only pay for the energy you use, otherwise you might ending up paying for other stores in the building.

more when you only try to sell more

When you want to add a new collection or other products in your store. You might need to pay for more space, Even before you will sell any bundle of hair.

There is an extensive list of expenses and risks you run when renting office or store space. This will differ for every local situation, but it is good to realize the risk you run when you start with the rent of a store.

So much less when you go online

Thanks to the internet, you can be launching a hair extension business, even if you have no money to start. No money, is no longer a showstopper. But not having money will make you think twice before you spend money on any topic. This will help you to make a good profit selling hair .

When you have an online hair business, you pay nothing for:

social media: When you offer your products on social media, like Instagram you do not pay for the setup of your business account, Unless you decide to advertise.

Things to start a store you can do for free

There are many things that will generate money later, without spending money. These tips work when you want to start a hair business with no money in Africa, the United States or any other country.

Let’s start with your clients. It is very important to begin with the most important people in the world, or at least in the hair selling business. Those who are going to keep your hair business going. Your Ideal Clients.

Listen to what your clients needs to sell more hair!

You can analyze their needs rather easy and for free. Start with your friends, go out shopping and listen to their remarks when you all enter a beauty and hair store. When you go to the salon, talk with the other ladies about their hair needs, and listen very well.
Where do they buy their weaves and what do they like and do not like? Check on Instagram the comments given on hair selling accounts. Write everything down and define your Ideal Client. This valuable information is all yours even if you have no money.

How to start my own hair extension line free of rent?

Great sources of inspiration are the hair businesses in the mall of course. But, as mentioned before, these hair stores all must pay rent. Every month, regardless how much hair you sell. Rental payment is one of the biggest expenses for any business. What if you can save on these expenses, a rental free store? That will not only save you money. It will also give you an advantage because you can offer a high discount for loyal clients. Higher than a hair business that has to pay rent! Lower expenses support a higher profit margin and you can invest this profit to give your clients a higher discount. That will boost your hair sales and give you loyal clients in return. Clients who will return for another bundle of hair! So, sell hair from home.

How to start a small hair business from home?

Indeed, to save expenses you can start your hair or wig business from home. Make sure you have a room free or at least your own corner in the house to keep the hair. There are stores that only use their mobile phones, so you do not need much space. Sell hair online, for example using a platform like Shopify. If you know how to start a wig business from home, do not forget to turn your home into a safe and efficient workplace.

Learn from hair suppliers what hair is hot!

By this time, you know what your ideal client likes, how and where she searches for the hair and other beauty solutions. You know the kind of solutions you can offer that are a perfect match for her needs. Now you can start to look for hair vendors.

Search the internet, make a long list with all possible hair wholesale stores. You need to know where to buy hair extensions at wholesale conditions. Write down as many suppliers as possible. Later you are going to contact these wholesale human hair vendors and ask them all questions you can think of. Only those who answer in a swift and polite manner must end up on the short list. This list you can use to discuss your first order.

Market the hair for free

When you have found the right hair, contact the supplier and request permission to publish their images of hair on your social media or website.

If you found the hair your ideal client likes, you will get inquiries about the hair. Use this interest to create a list of leads. Leads are people interested in your hair products and whose email or WhatsApp number you will have obtained. Keep the conversation going with these people, until they are ready to buy.

You know Social Media, like TikTok, Facebook or Instagram, is for free. There is also a lot of information on the internet on how to start a small hair business with no money using social media.

No Money? No problem if you want to design a web store as hair selling machine!

Now you finished all the preparation needed for a successful hair business. You know who wants to buy from you, you know the hair they like, and you have social media up and running. The final step is to see if you can start selling the hair to a bigger audience.

When you prefer to sell hair online, I recommend trying the best eCommerce platform of the business, Shopify. You can make you own hair store and it is free the first 14 days! This means, with the right planning, you can sell hair when your store is ready without you paying anything.

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E=When you need help with the design and launch of your store, can check our step-by-step guide the All-in-One Hair Business Package with Web Store so you can enjoy getting sales right from day one!

How to start a hair business with no inventory

To save on money you need to buy your inventory, you can consider drop shipping. This way you can start a hair business with no inventory, because the vendor will ship the hair or wigs to your clients. You can offer all the hair you like. No limit. Some stores specialize for example on wig drop shipping.

Do you want to create your own online store?

Yes

Can you start drop shipping with no money?

We mentioned it before. You can start drop shipping with no inventory, but can you start drop shipping with no money? To buy the inventory, the hair at hand is one of the largest investments when you start selling online. The idea is to start a Shopify store with no money, using the first 14 days free trial to design and set up your store. Link with a hair vendor on Oberlo. This is the drop shipping platform of Shopify, and you could start an online store with no money.

Be sure to have everything prepared in advance, so you can launch the online store at day one. Use social media to create a community of hair lovers. This will cost you no cent. When you have enough people, who follow you and do engage with you, you can launch your Shopify store with no money. 14 days free trial, remember and the Oberlo dropshipping for the hair and beauty products.

You can use the money of your first sales to pay for the monthly fee for Shopify, so you started your hair store without any money.

Get help to start your hair business

If you want to be sure you have everything prepared, starting an online store with no money, you can for a very small amount get a hair business package. This package will guide you through the process from finding your ideal client, the right hair vendors via Oberlo and the marketing strategy. You will also find support to set up your webstore. No need to re-invent everything but use your time and energy in building a community of followers.

How to start a wig business with no money

For wigs you can use a ghost wig maker to prepare the wigs for your clients. Ask the wig maker for some free images of the wigs and use these images to start selling wigs. Your clients will understand, a tailor-made wig will take some time. Ask them for a down payment, or use a payment provider like Sezzle, and use this money to make your down payment for the wig. This is how to start a wig business with no money. You will use the money of the clients, instead of your own money.

How to start a wig business online?

When you want to grow your market, you can start a wig business online. Through the whole country people will be able to find your wigs online. You will have much more potential clients than when you sell from home.

Now you know how to start a wig business with no money!
Please let me know, will this help you to start selling hair, even if you have no money?

Starting a hair extension business uk?

When you want to start a hair business in the United Kingdom, we recommend to check our special post with our vision for that country.

Still questions?

When you still have questions, please feel free leave a comment below. I will respond to you asap and will help you to get started.

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