Nov 22, 2016 | All about money
How much money to start a Hair Business?
It is good to ask yourself the question on how much money you need to start a hair business, or any business. Because starting a business means you are willing to take risks. Not the risk to lose everything you care about, but calculated risks. For this risk and the investments needed, you should have enough money to start your business.
Take your savings and hair sales into account
If you want to start a hair extensions business you take a risk, and from some of you I receive the question “How much money do I need to start?”. In other words, how much do I have to invest? If you calculate the capital required, you know how much you must set apart, or to earn with your first sales. When you want to know how much money you need, you also have to calculate how much money or profit you can make selling hair. The calculator on this site will help you.
It is about investing time and money
To start a hair business means you must invest two things: time and money. These two are very closely related. For example, because sometimes if you do not have the money to hire a marketing consultant, or web designer for your hair store you can decide to invest time to learn and do it yourself. If you have money you can build up brand name recognition by spending big bucks on advertisement.
What is needed for your hair business?
You like to have a list of steps with the investment needed to start a hair business, please continue reading.
Dream: $ 85
Every great journey starts with a dream. The beautiful “Eureka!” moment at night or sometimes even at day time. The moment everything comes together and you realize the reason of your existence, you want to start selling hair!
Now you will notice your senses pick up every information about hair and beauty, about business opportunities and business cards designs. It’s like everybody suddenly talks hair!
Dream Big!
You will dream about what you want to achieve, please do not allow room for limitations. Do not think what will be the cost to open a beauty supply store? Or how lucrative is weavon and attachment business? You have to dream as much as possible, because this is the creative stage that will give you hair business changing ideas. So instead of how much does it cost to sell hair, you dream of all the ladies or men you will make happy because you have the best hair solution of the world! Dream big!
This phase is full of energy and except for the investment in a bottle of Champagne that you only will open at the day of the launch of your hair business you only should invest time.
A lot of time but you will not care, enjoy this phase, Breath the air full with ambition and passion.
Think: $ 20 – $ 1,500
When you are ready for it, and everybody has her or his own “enough is enough” moment, you should stop dreaming. Will you make your dream work for you, or will you keep your dream to escape from the 9 to 5 job you have?
Of course, you preferred to make the dream work for you, otherwise you would have googled other search terms. Instead of “How To Start a Hair Business” you would have googled “ Business day dreaming”.
The hair market
Now you start to analyze the hair market. Who is selling hair? Where to buy hair? What is wholesale? Who wants the hair I will be selling and how to tell the world I am selling hair? These and many more questions will pop up in your mind.
Invest time or money?
This is the first time you must decide if you want to invest money or time. You can hire a company to do the research for you, and leave this fun part to others. Or you can start to google hair stores, hair suppliers, and perform a market survey. You will have to invest more time to talk hair with a lot of different people, but you do not care. This is the fun part because it will stimulate your brains with many more new ideas! Ideas on how you will be different from the rest. Different from the competition.
Hire a coach
To hire a consultancy firm to gather the information about the hair market will cost you at least $ 1,000 to $1,500. Some have the information on the shelf and others will collect the data for you.
Training Market Survey
If you prefer to do it yourself, you can decide to go for a training about a market survey for a couple of dollars. You must invest the time but you will not put your savings at risk.
Free market survey
The market survey has to show how big your niche, your special place on the hair market is. How many people use hair extensions and wigs in the region you focus? Facebook and Google Ads have tools to give you this insight for free. Before opening your hair store, you need to know for example the names of weavon and their prices.
To understand the market you need to know where can i buy bundles of hair to sell? Who are the hair vendors and are there wholesale hair vendors near me? What are their conditions on price, minimum order quantity and shipping?. Check the free 40 questions to ask your hair vendor to be sure you do not forget any important question.
The competition
You are not alone, so who else is selling hair, who is the competition? A simple search on social media, or on google will tell you the names of human hair retailers. Visit the hair store, mail them for information about prices and you have a good insight in the hair market possibilities.
Now you have a free first high level overview of the hair market, from client to products and competitors.
Analyze: $ 30 – $ 1,500
Now you have both the idea and the information about the hair market. It is time to start to analyze because the purpose of all this insight is to be different from the current stores in the hair business.
This is the phase to brainstorm, to take that nice drink, but wait it’s still too early for the bottle of Champagne. The phase to see a pattern, what is everybody doing in this business but not matching with the client’s needs? What do the clients need but is nobody offering now?
Easier said than done, but take your time, talk with people and challenge your ideas.
Again, you can hire a consultant or accountant, be ready to invest another $1,500. .
Testing: $ 1,000 – $ 2,000
Now this is the time to test the hair. Use Google to find suppliers, start with a long list to end up with a short list. Call or mail these suppliers, test their communicational skills and client focus. Order samples or retail orders to test the hair.
Did I do the right thing?
This is the phase with mixed feelings, the first time you will have doubts if all this was a smart thing to do. Suppliers who do not respond, samples to pay and smelly packages to open. The hair you will receive will surprise if you feel the hair slip through your fingers, so soft. Or it will hurt why you paid so much for a retail order of maltreated hair, of which you do not even know if its human or synthetic hair.
This phase does not only give you the highest level of stress, it will also cost you a lot of money if you do not manage to find the proper supplier.
Hair Samples
If you are not going to travel to countries famous of their export of human hair, you still should put $ 1,000 to $ 2,000 aside for this phase. You must pay for samples or the retail orders and if you find a supplier who is willing to invest in you too. You still should pay for the expenses of third parties, like shipping, payment or custom duties.
It all depends on your desk research and if you manage to find the supplier who can deliver exactly the hair you need to know how much money you are going to need.
To safe you time, money and frustration I prepared the All-In-One Hair Business Package.
Spread the word: $50 – $ 1,500
Now you can start to tell the world you are in business. You know how to be different, where to get your hair from and where your clients are. All the ingredients to steam up for success and profit.
Your Domain Name
Invest time to find a good business name and benefit from the free domain name Bluehost offers you with their hosting package. For a few dollars or less a month you can have your own brand name, domain, hosting package and 24/7 support.
You can start with a full fledge webstore from shopify to offer and sell your hair extensions( enjoy the 14 days trial to start selling without expenses). If you prepare yourself in advance, you can start selling hair at day one and have 14 long days you can sell hair without any charge for the store!
Find your clients and interact
To interact with your ideal clients, you start a Facebook page, Pinterest and Instagram or Snapchat. The exact mix of social media depends on your ideal clients. Be there where they are. Limit yourself to 3 platforms to start. You must interact with your followers and this is time you must invest. Social media is free, but cost you a lot of you free time too!
Now you are in business
Be smart if you invest in stock, limit the money and select a hair supplier who can deliver the hair very swift.
Distributor
Consider to start as distributor and start selling without stock, this will reduce the risk for you but still gives you the possibility to start selling hair.
Now you can start selling, but before you open the bottle of Campaign, mail or app me the day you are going to open so I can do a big and warm shout out for you!
Nov 21, 2016 | Get Help
Everybody wants a little love, to turn from victim to victor
Before you continue to read, please know this post is different from the others on this website. Today, I want to share with you some insight on voluntary work I do to help people who have been sexually abused in their childhood.
I love to share ideas and concepts to be different selling hair extensions, how to start your online business and to grow to a business big enough to earn a living. To talk with you on Skype or to chat on WhatsApp inspires me, and it’s great to be able to talk to so many different people, from all over the world.
Thanks to the shape of the planet I do not have a regular 8 to 5 job with HowToSellHairExtensions. I work in the middle of the night, early morning hours or sometime not at all.
Voluntary work
For me it’s very rewarding HowToSellHairExtensions leaves me time to give energy, inspiration and sometimes just some attention to the community. For a year now I am a voluntary board member of a foundation for victims of sexual abuse (SKIP).
In the Netherlands abuse was not only a practice in the Church, but also when children were under custody of foster parents and -houses. I fear by the way, the past sentence does not apply, and the risk of child abuse is still present today.
The foundation gives a platform to these victims, it lobbies with the government for financial compensation, for sharing information so the whole society can learn and hopefully detect child abuse in your environment in an early stage. But also, to receive funds to be able to organise meetings to empower people.
A year is a very short period, but I can tell you I have seen several people in that year who changed from victim to victor, thanks to the work of the Foundation. People who had their mind made up to give up this battle and to lock themselves up in their home. Who now organize events or shared their very intimate live story in a documentary on YouTube. Those people are the true heroes of our society in my eyes.
I feel honoured to be a spokesman for these people, because everybody wants a little love and sometimes this love turns you from victim to victor.
Everybody wants a little love
I can recommend you, if you have the time next to your business and perhaps day time job, to invest in your community. There are many people who can use your attention and love, and if we all turn somebody from victim into victor, our whole world will soon be truly great again!
If you support charity or any other great local imitative in your community, please post your comment to inspire others to do the same, or to get attention for your initiative and to make this world a better place for all of us!
Nov 17, 2016 | I want to start
How much does cosmetology student make selling hair
Eaen back your cosmetology course by selling hair
How to become a successful cosmetologist
As cosmetology student, it’s a great opportunity to know how to start selling hair. It helps you not only to rocket your business into success after you passed the exam. It also helps you to finance your study. You will learn the commercial part of being a successful cosmetologist, as of day one!
In this post, you can read how to start selling hair as cosmetology student.
First some background information about the requirement to have your cosmetology license, followed by tips on how to start selling hair.
A cosmetologist can make clients feel great again!
A cosmetologist has the most beautiful job on earth, you help your customer to look and feel great again by updating their physical appearance. You can do so by focusing on cutting, coloring, or styling hair, but you can also specialize in skincare or nails.
Because this is of course a very sensitive treatment, cosmetologists in the United States are required to complete training at a certified cosmetology school. Every state has different requirements, so be sure to check the local requirements before you start.
In most cases, there are age restrictions and if you participate in the program, you must complete a set number of training hours during cosmetology school.
Be prepared to do written or practical tests for the licensing exam. Think off questions about chemical usage, hair styling techniques but also state law. Practical tests involve applicants to follow directions to style a model.
If you passed the exam, you must renew it by periodically paying a fee and to fill some paperwork.
How to pay for your cosmetology course?
There are different prices for a training as licensed cosmetologist, but you should at least invest a couple of thousand dollars in the training of this beautiful job before you can start. This brings me to the question, how to pay for this? How about, by selling hair, and self-made wigs?
How to start selling hair as cosmetology student
A great and natural way to finance your study is to start selling hair extensions as cosmetology student. This is a double-edged sword, because it pays for the fee, and you start to build your clientele before you are launching your own full fledge hair business.
Be prepared and always have a business card with you to share with potential clients, models you must style, or even your teacher. Be original and do not exaggerate about your business. You are a cosmetology student, so put this on your card. Many customers appreciate if you show want to achieve something in life. Use this in your advantage.
Go online as cosmetologist!
Of course, you have a Facebook, Instagram or TikTok account to share your victories. The people you already gave a complete make over. Avoid using pictures you picked from the internet, it works much better with selfies and before and after pictures of your own clients. Better a small number of pictures of your own achievements. Do not put the over-exposed and borrowed pictures of others big names.
You can now also start to build your name with a website to show your portfolio and professionalism to potential salons or business you want to work. Nothing wrong to be experienced in the field before you start to become your own boss. If you need help to find a name and a reliable hosting company, check the page about finding hair and beauty company names.
When you need a stable and easy to design store, think about a Shopify store. This store is used by many before you and keeps their ecommerce features up to date.
Now you need hair to finance your cosmetology course!
When you just paid for your cosmetology course, you might find it difficult to buy hair. Especially when you do not have regular clients yet. A solution can be, drop shipping. This allows you to offer the most beautiful hair, without investing one cent in inventory. Ideal to earn the money to start paying of your student loan!
Contact me when you want to start drop shipping,
Nov 15, 2016 | Get Help
How much is needed for a hair business
You earn money with money. First you must invest time and money in your hair business before you can start to get sales. For that reason, I receive questions by email or social media, asking How much is needed for a hair business.
The answer is, I do not know!
Wait before you click a way to another website, what I want to say is, it depends on what you want to achieve!
What do you need to know first
To answer the question how much is needed for a hair business you should take a few things into consideration.
- What kind of hair business do you want to start?
- Do you want to grow by great content or to market your hair business?
- Do you want to start selling wholesale or retail?
- What is your inventory strategy, do you need a lot of inventory or not?
- Do you want a store or only online presence?
As you see, it all depends on the plan you should have to start a hair business. Of course, we all know the success stories from big firms or hair brands who started with selling hair out of the trunk of their car. With USD 2000 you can start an imperium, but it also involves a lot of work and luck.
Your plan on one page
My recommendation to people who ask me how much is needed for a hair business is to start with their business plan. No need to complete a 50 pages detailed plan to know how much you need, but start with a one pager that describes what is your mission, when you want to be break even, how you will be different and how you are going to connect with your ideal client.
You can keep it at low cost, using free hair samples, social media and the templates I offer, or If you have access to enough cash you can invest in a nice website combined with a salon.
Let me know how you want to your store to be different and I can tell you how much is needed for a hair business
Nov 12, 2016 | Get Help, Hair Store Names
Hair Company Name Suggestions for Atlanta
If you are in Atlanta I have some game changing tips for a catchy hair company name.
Atlanta is the HOT spot for hair extensions stores in the States. And there is no other place on earth where the competition between hair extension stores is fiercer. If you live in Atlanta and you have passion for selling hair extensions, here are 5 tips to create a winning brand. This way you will gain much more traffic to your hair store in Atlanta.
The purpose of this post is to take you by the hand and to lead you in 5 steps to a name that will make you stand out of that crowd of hair stores. A Hair Company name that people will remember, and will help those looking for hair extensions in Atlanta.
There are many approaches to find the best name for your business, today I will use an approach for a saturated hair market.
Who do you want to find your store?
Do not try to sell to everybody, but focus on a special group of women or men who are interested in buying hair extensions. If you know who you want to service, it is much easier to broadcast your marketing message and to connect with your clients.
Hair Company Name tip
Why wouldn’t you include your target group in your brand name, if you offer hair for the LGBT community, make sure it’s included or a keyword that is used often by your niche.
Be different and do not forget to tell the world
Give people a good reason to visit your store. Do not offer “hair extensions” or “bundle deals”. This will force you in an uphill battle, because on these services you will find a lot of other stores. But as said many times before, your clients are not in need of an artificial hair. Your clients want to enhance their physical appearance. They want to look good!
Offer the complete make over, a self-esteem boost and select a name that tells the world about your offer.
Catchy Hair Company Name tip
Include the make-over you offer in your name, show you offer a one stop happy customer treatment.
Get the all-in-one hair business package, complete with hair samples and launch your own hair store now
Location, location and location
Not only for real estate but also for hair extensions services the location is very important.
Your clients deserve the best service, and only the best service will turn them into happy and loyal clients. Why would you want your clients to visit your store, why they should plan a visit to your store while it can be so much comfortable for them to try and buy the hair at their home, office or any other place, like Spa or fitness centre?
Hair Business Name tip
Go for comfortable and tell your clients you offer services at any place they prefer. Include Atlanta, or a specific area or if you go mobile, tell them.
Time is on our side
A famous song from the Stones, but this text is valid for your clients too. You have picked your share of the market. For example, business women. Offer a service at the time that is convenient for them. Often this is aligned with the location. Offer your client the hair at the place and moment of the day that fit’s in their agenda.
Promoting the growth and health of your hair with knowledge of hair elemental makeup, determining hair type, and tips.
Hair Company Name tip
Do you offer services 24/7, or in the night, tell the world and include it in your name
How to create a name
Now you have the four key elements for good Hair Company Names, and business offer, to distinguish yourself from many other hair suppliers. The final step is to include these elements in your brand name.
There are a few reasons aCatchy Company Name is important, to rank high in search results so new visitors will be able to find your store and to make people who already visited your store will remember your brand to return later again!
If you found the right name use the tool below to check how your name will look like and is still available as domain name.
Let me know your company name for your hair store in the comments below, I love to do a shout out!
Nov 11, 2016 | Get Help
Hair Extensions in Sweden with a flavour of Kenya
I am always nervous the first time I visit a web store. Today I visited the brand new crispy fresh website of Shirley, GlossyLicious. A store that offers Hair Extensions in Sweden
Why I am nervous? I always look forward to get surprised to visit a website that is different from the others and that will invite visitors not only to come back, but also to buy some great products. Sometimes a website disappoints, and sometimes they make my heart beat faster.
I clicked the link, Shirley shared the link by WhatsApp, and a beautiful girl with gorgeous hair looked me straight into the eyes. It was like she told me to come further, and difficult for me to resist beautiful eyes, I decided to visit every single page of this website.
About Hair Extensions in Sweden
My first page was the About Us Page, because I know people prefer to know who is selling the hair, before they buy. GlossyLicious is making a promise, they help you to find the new you, to recapture your life. For me this means they want to connect with you as a client so they can make you look and feel good.
There is no information yet about the women who founded this company, I hope to read more about her soon.
The before and after page
I love to see before and after pictures, a great way to show how the treatment and the products can change a person into a gorgeous looking lady. GlossyLicious showed with the pictures also she builds a bridge between the blond Swedish culture and Kenya. Very nice to see, women of different color.
There is room for many more before and after pictures, I will certainly come back to see more pics.
Hair Extensions
What kind of Hair Extensions you can buy in Sweden? I see Indian hair, Burmese and Vietnamese hair, including closures, accessories and even hair products. A very wide variety of hair extensions, wigs and closures.
Newsletter
I did not leave this website before I signed up for the newsletter, I look forward to receive the latest news about GlossyLicious in my inbox. I wish Shirley, her visitors and clients the best with this beautiful website and nice looking hair!
Nov 11, 2016 | Get Help
Sell Hair Extensions for Free
Sell Hair Extensions for Free and grow your business, it sounds impossible. But if it works in many other industries, why not in yours?
How can you make money if you do not ask your clients for money? How can you ever purchase hair extensions if your clients do not pay?
I agree, it sounds impossible, but it does work and generates money.
For many women, who want to feel confident, the price of the hair extensions is the number one factor to decide to look further or not. If the price is acceptable, they will spend more time in your hair store, website or beauty salon. The biggest hurdle has been taken and they are ready to shop.
If the price is too high, they will not bother to look any further, not even if you have products or services that will make them look and feel great again!
If you can take away the biggest hurdle in the selling process, you can sell so much more.
Offer alternatives
There are many alternatives to sell a product for free, for example Blue host offers a free website domain for your hair store. No need to pay for your name on the internet, if you take the hosting services and support.
Or what about a company that gives you for free a state of the art application that make it possible to connect with your friends and family. That allows you to feel close to them even if you are miles away. Think about Facebook, 100% for free, and they make money with your data.
There are more examples, do you still pay for your newspaper?
Make this work for your main product, because you will see an amazing increase of your overall sales.
How to offer Hair Extensions for Free
The answer is simple; you must switch to a different approach. The hair and beauty industry is not about selling products, its’s all about experience. To give people a complete makeover, to boost their self-esteem!
Hair extensions are, I am sorry to say, just one part of this. The instrument to make people feel confident. The best example is a before and after picture, these pictures do show the impact of a great beauty treatment. The women look great after the install. And that’s what she is willing to pay for.
Offer a complete make over service
Offer a complete make over service, or a confidence boost. It’s true, the world can come to her end, but that will not bother anybody if they look gorgeous!
Include in your service offer free hair extensions combined with a beauty treatment, you will see your client will not discuss the price of the hair anymore! It’s a kind of a bundle deal, but much more interesting for your client and you!
How are you going to implement this in your store? Let me know
Nov 10, 2016 | Get Help
Start selling hair extensions with no stock
You deserve a chance to start selling hair extensions, also if you have a low budget. Why? Because I believe the world will only be a better place if everybody gets an opportunity to become financially independent. So I want to give you the possibility to start selling hair extensions with no stock.
If you have passion for hair, if you feel love for making others look and feel good, I want to help you. Not only to make enough money to become financially independent, but also because happy clients are happy people. And today more than ever we need happy people on this planet, at least that is what I feel. If you agree continue reading.
So what’s my plan?
I need 50 women or men who seriously wants to start selling hair extensions with no stock, but do not know where to get the funds to start the business from. With one main condition, your objective has to be to make others feel confident by selling them your hair. So no gold diggers who want to sell once and leave the market. I want people with their heart at the right place and who want to be in this game for a long time.
These 50 can become distributor of hair extensions and want to start selling hair extensions with no stock. You will not only get access to hair but also support on marketing and sales.
Currently I’m talking to a number of hair suppliers who showed interest to join and support you. Support on marketing, sales training and hair extensions and wigs of course.
What do you have to do?
Can you build a network of women looking for hair in your neighbourhood? Do you want to turn them into your clients? Do you want to become a reliable hair extensions seller for your clients, just let me know. Share a comment below this post or mail me
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Fair distribution of distributors
Some areas have a large number of people who want to become a distributor. I do not rule out I have to disappoint some people in case for a specific area the concentration of distributors is too high. I want everybody to have a fair opportunity to start and grow and not to compete with other distributors.
Rules of the game
I mentioned before, I only believe this will with people who want to create a loyal client base. A client base of people who prefer to keep on buying from their hair store, only because you make them feel awesome and look gorgeous.
There is only room for a limited number of people for phase one. I want to avoid people will sign up but not get actively involved. This will reduce the opportunities for people who want to make serious start in becoming a hair distributor and that’s not fair.
Therefore, I would like to receive your written motivation why you want to sell hair and to know if you would be willing to sign up for a monthly empowerment contribution? A small contribution that will ensure only active members will apply and that will give you access to marketing and sales support.
You want to sell hair extensions without stock?
If you want to become a hair distributor and start selling hair extensions without your money invested in stock, all you need to do is to foll0w the next steps:
1 leave your comment below this post, to let me and the rest of the world know why you want to start selling hair and why you want to become a member of the team
2 Schedule a call using the button below this post
3 Now a screen will open to schedule the appointment! I work in the Amsterdam time zone, but I hardly sleep anymore so feel free to schedule a call at the time that is best for you!
4. After you selected the best option for you, you can leave your contact details in a special screen.
Make sure to select your own country if that’s not The Netherlands and fill in your Skype name to have a free and convenient way of communication. Leave any note you want to share some info on how you want to start as distributor.
5. Arrange for the transfer of the fee
I receive many requests of appointments of people who do want to start selling hair extensions with no stock, but do not show up at the moment of the call. This limits the possibility for others to schedule a call and that’s a waist. I had to introduce a 5 dollar fee (valid today but can change any day depending on the number of requests) , but you will also get the eBook “From Dream to Your Own Hair Extensions Business, in only 10 days” for free to compensate you for the payment. Normally I offer the eBook for $10.00 so you will have your first gain.
If I receive no payment I assume you prefer not to benefit this time of the opportunity to start selling without inventory.
6 The next step will be the screen of PayPal to transfer the 5 dollar . If you do not have PayPal please contact me to figure out another ways to pay.
You’ll receive an confirmation email and we will have a Skype call on the moment you selected.
What’s in it for you?
The best way to make sure you get the most out of the call and the distribution model is to prepare yourself. How can a model work for you, what kind of hair, textures and lengths you want to offer, what margin you prefer to earn etc.
If you want to join the team and start selling hair extensions with no stock, you can sign up for the special newsletter, and you will be informed about the offers and the distribution model. The aim is to start with the distribution model this quarter, so you can benefit from the end of year sales season.
So, if you want to:
- keep your money in your pocket, but still sell hair
- grow your own hair business, even if you do not have the money to invest
- become financially independent, with your passion and love for hair as your main investment
- make others look and feel good, and be flexible to offer them always the best hair
- be your own boss, but get all support you need
This plan is for you!
Are you ready to start selling hair extensions with no stock and do you want to join a distribution model that fits with your needs ? Let me know your motivation and schedule a call!
Nov 9, 2016 | Get Help
I do not know how to start selling hair
This week I received a few mails with the same topic, “I do not know how to start selling hair”. Girls or women with fantastic ideas to make other women look great and with the passion to talk hair all day. Too bad they didn’t know how to start selling hair.
My preference is to have a chat, over Skype, and to talk together about what drives you to start selling hair extensions, to know how you want to be different and how to put the client number one.
But now I see many more women telling me I do not know how to start selling hair, I think it works more better to share my ideas with you. My ideas on how to stop dreaming and to start working on the launch of your hair extensions business.
The best way to stop dreaming is to start to act, instead of keeping your ideas in your head, you have to start to actually build your store.
Allow me to share my secret, and I have to be honest I got inspired by many others, like for example the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Clean up your room
First, clean up the room and poor yourself a nice drink and make sure to have enough healthy snacks within reach. Do not forget to organize some sheets of paper and some pencils, or brushes.
Now lock yourself up, and promise yourself not to leave the room until you have left the dreaming phase behind you and you have a first actionable plan on paper.
Stop thinking I do not know how to start selling hair.
Start thinking, or better make a drawing or sketch of how your store, your hair extensions bar should look like. Trust everything you have in your dreams to the paper. Make it a kind of brainstorm session. If the first sketch did not work well, take another piece of paper and make drawing, visualize your dream and make it real.
You will see, with every blank sheet of paper your store will become more real. It’s all about the concept, so no need to prepare a picture you could share on Instagram.
You can make drawings about various things, about how the website will look like, or your salon. How the hair will be presented, or how the clients will look like. Use your imagination and your dreams. Nothing is stupid or dumb.
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From right to the left side of your brains
If you have a sketch you like and do not want to change anymore, it’s time for the next step. Now you are going to write down what see on the paper. Write down everything about clients, hair extensions or products, website or store design and marketing. Make these categories the header of a list. Now categorize the impressions, so you will have 5 or 6 tables with one header and one or more bullets with your impression of what you put on the paper. If you made a drawing of a website with pictures of hair, and a blog. Write under products the pictures of the hair and under marketing the hair blog.
From dream you went to make a drawing and from this drawing you start to write down your dream.
The amazing thing is because you made a painting of what you want, your brains will start to behave differently to. From the right part of your brains, the creative part you will start to use the left side. The left side is rationale and will help you to go into action mode. So automatically you will stop dreaming and start working on the launch of your hair store.
Go for your own store!
If you want to know more how this can work for you, contact me to get ideas by leaving a comment. Now you will never say “I do not know how to start selling hair” anymore!
Nov 4, 2016 | Get Help
Cash available for hair start-ups
Start-ups in Lagos, the word is out, women in Africa are the main drivers of economic growth. This changes the social economic landscape through the whole mother continent. Women in Lagos for example become the leader of growth in many businesses. New companies in all fields are started by women and this brings financial independence for girls and women much closer.
But a main issue for start-ups in Lagos and other cities is access to capital or cash, to start and grow the hair extensions, wig or other beauty business.
FirstGem has cash for start-ups in Lagos
Now you can get support from First Bank of Nigeria, they launched a solution for women named FirstGem for women. This will provide opportunities for women to achieve their financial goals and ambition. This is the start of any business, to define your goals and mission.
FirstGem helps start-ups in Lagos and other cities in Nigeria with funding, business advice and information about the business environment. FirstGem comes in variants of Savings and Current accounts and it is designed to benefit all women who wants to go into business.
How to get access to the funds to start your business
Before you run to your First Bank Branch, please do some homework. Do not write a note with only the text “Give me my money”, not even in pink.
This might will lead to big misunderstandings and you run the risk the first customer of your start-up is an inmate of the Kirikiri Prison in Lagos state.
Better to prepare yourself, I recommend to think about your goals and mission of your hair extensions business. The chance you will leave the bank with some extra money in your pocket will be much higher if you can outline the branch director of credits your business ideas in a structural way.
No need to present a complete business plan, but share your plan in some bullets and it will convince the bank to take your request into consideration.
Think of:
- How you see the hair extensions market in Nigeria
- How you will be different from the rest
- What the clients need
- New ways to attract customers
- The kind of investment you need
You need help to get inspiration to write down an excellent and original business in a couple of bullets, or a complete business proposal that will give you access to the FirstGem cash?
Simply get your copy of my eBook “From Dream to Your Own Hair Extensions Business, in only 10 days”.
Feel free to contact me before you visit your local First Bank Branch.
Good luck with the start of your own hair business in Nigeria with the cash of First bank!
