May 2, 2017 | Make Your Dream Happen
To be a Start-Up Hair Business owner is fun, exciting and with never a dull moment. But that’s not enough, it’s important to find a path to profitability. Because only with a sustainable hair sales base you will get the cash flow needed to grow and develop your business.
How to protect your investment of long hours in your own hair business? There is no link between working long hours and building a successful hair business. But it is possible, if you use the right strategy to move from a start-up hair business to a growing store.
Launch your start-up hair business
At the launch of your hair store you put all your effort in the design and planning of your new hair bizz. In this stage, you are not only working behind your desk, it’s important to get market feedback. You need to know if what you think the market desperately needs, is indeed what the market needs. Is there enough interest for your hair brand?
On your action list for your Start-Up Hair Business should be to get a well understanding of your business. How will you be different, how will you beat the competition and how will you turn your ideas into a real hair business.
If this is clear, it’s time to test your ideas, your own expectations of your start up hair business with those who really know. The market, this refers to your clients, to people who might be recommending your hair brand to your clients like stylists and do not forget wholesale hair suppliers.
With all this info at hand you can start to draft your business plan. A good business plan will help you to address everything that is important for your start up hair business to become a growing business. In the eBook, you will find an example hair business plan you can use.
Before you start to sell your hair, you need to be sure you know everything about the hair. You should be able to respond to any question of your clients. Not only when selling the hair, but also if they will ever return with a complaint. You will have to install the hair yourself. But also test the communications channels you use; will your audience receive the message with the right intention. Test, test test.
May 2, 2017 | Business Ideas, Get Help
To start your own hair brand with business ideas with low investments, is possible. Too many women have great ideas but fail to launch their business because they think they need to invest a lot of money.
Today there are many possibilities for business ideas with low investments, all you need is to find the right steps to take.
The eBook “From Dream to your Own Hair Extensions Business, in Only 10 Days” gives you these steps in one guide.
Business ideas with low investment are mostly unique ideas
It’s a mistake to be able to make enough money by simply copy the business model, or product offering of somebody else. This will not work, but it will also safe you a lot of money if you invest in time and research.
Why don’t you look for a unique hair business that will always offer the hair your market is looking for?
If you transform a group of clients into a focus group, your eyes and ears on the market you will sell more hair than the competition. Without investing a lot of money. All you need is a place to chill and start the conversation about hair.
Start using social media
It’s amazing how much exposure for your hair brand you can get on social media. With a low investment of money, you grow your business ideas into a selling machine. Organize a party and have your friend install the hair. Make sure to take a lot of pictures and share the fun on social media. Everybody will see not only the fun you guys have, they will also see the hair you sell.
The eBook will share with you many ideas to be different from others and to sell you hair fast. You yourself can decide how much money to spend on this eBook to make your business ideas with low investment possible.
Apr 23, 2017 | Get Help
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”
Apr 22, 2017 | Get Help
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!
Apr 22, 2017 | Sell Online
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.
Apr 22, 2017 | Business Ideas, Get Help
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.
Apr 20, 2017 | Get Help
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!
Apr 20, 2017 | Business Ideas, Get Help
It’s odd if you want to share tips about business ideas for women, you include a balance with other tasks. The great thing is, to combine selling hair extensions with other duties. Like education, another job or the care of family members.
Selling hair extensions, nails or other beauty products are great business ideas for women. These are sales activities that need a high level of understanding of the other person. For this reason, I notice a high number of nurses or medical students among the clients of my services. Selling hair is all about care!
You look for business ideas for women
One risk for women who want to start their own business, is they care too much for their loved ones or other people in their environment. Too many times I talk to women with great business ideas, who later give up. They are too occupied by these other tasks.
I recommend to, not only to put yourself number one now in your life, but also to make a short list:
– Why do you want to start a business, what is the goal?
– What do you like to do?
– What do you want to learn?
What is your goal
It’s great to have new ideas about a business all the time, unless you want to stop dreaming because you need the money. If cash is the goal of your business ideas make sure to stop thinking in time and to start working on your dream.
You feel lonely in a new neighborhood because your friends left to another corner of country, start selling hair can be a great idea to find new friends.
But why not follow mother Theresa and make the world a better place? Support others with the revenue of your business. Give people who have a hard time to find connection with society a place in your business. This can be because of the language, a handicap or any other reason society thinks they are different.
If you know you need the money you should behave like an entrepreneur as of day one. You can afford to go nonprofit make sure you have the right network to support you.
What do you like to do?
Money is important, but better to pick an activity you are passionate about. Especially if you sell beauty people notice if you are there only for the cash. Or if you feel that ambition to make every client leaving your store look more gorgeous than the previous client.
Go for your passion and let nothing stop you
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If you have an idea for a business but you do not want all the other talks, like bookkeeping, looking for suppliers, dealing with unhappy clients. You should not look for Business ideas for women but for a nice hobby that inspires you and generates energy.
Before you start a business, ask your family members to share their opinion. Do they see you as an entrepreneur? Sometimes you can also look for somebody less close to you. You need an unbiased opinion.
If you feel selling hair is the best business idea for you, I am ready to support you
Apr 19, 2017 | Sell Online
You can only sell more if you get more visitors to your online hair extensions store. But how to get people find your hair extensions shop if they have never heard of you? Read how not only to get more visitors and to sell more at the same time.
Like many good stories there is a beginning, In the case of your online hair extensions store the begin is the Google or Bing search bar. Women interested to fid hair extensions type their search terms in the Google search bar.
This can be “Brazilian Hair”, “body wave” or “hair extensions stores near me”.
All you must do, is to make sure your internet hair store will be found if somebody, anywhere on this planet keys in these words. That’s all.
Pure Gold
You are not the only online hair extensions store, so you need to develop a plan to make sure you will beat the other hair stores. If you prepare this plan you will not only learn the kind of words your visitors will use, it will also tell you what your clients are thinking before they buy hair! Isn’t that pure gold?
You are in this beautiful business to sell hair and to make money, right? So, it is not about getting as many as possible visitors to your website. If people do visit your site but they do not buy and will never buy, nor will they talk to friends about your awesome online hair shop. They are useless. You need to attract visitors that are interested in your products and services, now or later.
Make money with the proper keywords for your online store
Now you know it is not just any keyword that you should use on your site. Use only keywords that people will use to or to know more about your products. Before people buy hair, they want to know more about your you and your brand. And keywords people will use that are ready to buy.
It will require some discipline but the pay-off is huge. Check on a regular basis with the free Google Analytics and Search Console the keywords that generates traffic to your website. If you check this for example once a week, you will see the changes in the use of words. This information will tell you if people will use less often the word Brazilian and more Peruvian for example. Now it’s up to you to market your Peruvian hair more. Make sure the people who are interested in your Peruvian hair see more of this product, new pictures, new before and after pictures. Of course, you will rename all your pictures with your brand name and the proper key terms. Give your potential clients what they are looking for! And sell more
You see, investing in keyword research is pure gold
Apr 19, 2017 | Sell Online
Free Hair to start your business for everybody with a good idea to start a unique hair business. This would take away an important challenge for all who do have a dream to start a hair business, but lack the money. The result of the first days shows there is very little need for free hair to start a business.
I started the offer of free hair to start a hair business three days ago. There are still 14 opportunities left, of the 15 I can afford to supply with free hair to launch their hair business.
Based upon the first reaction, there is too little demand for this opportunity. Or lack of good ideas.
For example:
- Some left only a list of hair they would like to receive, but forgot to share the idea how they would be different than the other hair stores in the market
- Others told me they wanted to sell their hair to afro American women who needed good quality hair. This is not new. Again, without telling what would be new in their business model.
The free hair to start a hair business is for everybody who has a new idea to start her business. The best way for success is to have an offer nobody else has, or a fresh marketing approach, or a new way to sell hair extensions.
If you think you want to start selling hair extensions and make some nice money, this is your chance. A once in a lifetime opportunity to start your own business.
Feel free to search my website, to sign up for the newsletter, to read the eBook “From Dream to Your Own Hair Extensions Business, in Only 10 Days” or to get the Hair Extensions Business Pages for inspiration to come with new ideas.
Would you like to start selling hair with free hair to launch your business?
