I want to start selling hair

I want to start selling hair

Today on Facebook I received the message from LaTavia. LaTavia told me, I want to start selling hair and what she had to do to start.

It’s always nice to receive this kind of questions. To dream about your own hair store is easy. It allows you to create the perfect store. All kind of hair extensions and wigs, and shelfs full of the best hair and beauty products. A store at a top location, near some fashion stores and with a lot of parking spots.

You offer your clients and visitors a comfortable seat and you show them all the hair you’ve got. And they love them all. They don’t mind the price as long as you will install the hair today! They are so please about the hair, they will recommend all their friends to come to buy your hair extensions.

I want to start selling hair

Wake up! That’s what LaTavia did. Because she understands a dream is great, but to make all this happen you must work, plan and work again. The dream is for the inspiration, it can help to form your goal. If you want to keep the dream alive, you can make a collage. Or your own Pinterest page. Full of beautiful images of great stores, awesome hair and happy clients. While you work to make the dream about “I want to start selling hair” take a look at the images and stay inspired.

1st, August, 2020 “I would like to start my own hair shop to start selling braids,hair extensions,wigs,weaves. In need of your advice please.”

I recommended Agatha to first focus on the needs of the possible clients. What are they looking for and can you help them?

Agatha

Now you must start to work to create a world that looks like the collage or the Pinterest board. Sometimes you have to give in a bit, because the money, time or other reality check will force you to. But try to stay as close as possible to your collage or board.

Happy Clients

I recommend working on the happy clients first. Who are the people that will come to your store and find the hair and beauty products they are looking for. Prepare a special board and collect images of ideal clients. The hair styles they like, the places or events they like to visit or attend. Their social live. Everything to get the right profile of the person that will buy your hair. Use your client as your starting point, collect as much as real data about her (or him).

Social media

This insight you can use to interact with her, to post images or events on Facebook or Instagram they like. This will grow your followers and the number of people aware of your hair brand. Even before you told the world “I want to start selling hair”. If you have such a fine insight of what are the pain points of your clients, or better potential clients, you are one step closer to selling them your hair.

The Hair

The next step will be to share images of hair. Make sure the images are high resolution images and not only show the bundle, but also the hair style after the install. Share a description of the hair and track the response. This information, all you learned about the response on the images of hair will help you to find the best hair supplier for your ideal client.

You see, with some imagination, social media and some fun work you can start the negotiations with hair suppliers about hair, quality, prices and conditions.

Launch Your Business

Now all you need is to show your ideal client you are open for business. Select a name that shows your mission and passion for hair, let there be no doubt you are in this hair business with the interest and needs of your clients first.

Now you can launch your Facebook Business Page and your Instagram account. Tell the world about your hair and do not forget to share postings about the other items your clients are interested in.
Now the interaction will start, you will see when your ideal client becomes a lead of flesh and blood, she might be interested in some other products or hair types too. Now you need to be professional enough to adapt your product offering.

Tell me are you ready to put your dream “I want to start selling hair” into action?

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

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

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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.

Graph showing the growth of E-commerce sales from 2014 to 2024

E-commerce on the rise

; world wide growth even during pandemic, data provided by Statista a leading provider of market and consumer data.

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.
a webstore like Wix
True, the free plan is limited and when you do not mind to distract your clients from buying with advertisements from Wix you can use this website builder
the trial on Shopify
Design your own store without any limit and add your products. Only when you are happy with the design and launch you pay thanks to the free trail from Shopify. When you are ready to sell you pay $ 29 a month

When you add new products to your Shopify store you pay nothing extra!

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.

Need help with design webstore?

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?

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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Japanese tradition leads to the End of the Hair Extensions Business

Japanese tradition leads to the End of the Hair Extensions Business

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Have you been dreaming to launch your own hair extensions business? Well it seems you will be dreaming for the rest of your life. There is a Japanese tradition that will put an end to the growth perspective of the hair extensions business.

Next to the Natural movement, news from Japan will make an end to the frustration of many women to get their hair growing faster.

For centuries Japanese women have known about this secret, but it never left the country until marie claire reported about it.

Washing your hair more, not less, will do the trick to make the hair grow faster. Rinse your hair with rice water can make it grow way faster. No idea where to get rice water from? This is the water that’s left over after you boiled a pot of rice! The rice water stimulates hair growth, strengthen the strands and improves scalp health. On top of this all, it fortifies your hair’s roots while adding body and shine. So why don’t you try it yourself once?

How does it work?
After shampooing your hair, massage the rice water into your scalp, moving downward toward the ends. Once your hair is completely wet, leave it on for five to 10 minutes before rinsing it out. Do not forget to massage your scalp too.

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The End of Hair Extensions Business?

You can still launch your own hair store, because there are many reasons for your clients to buy hair extensions. But this super natural way for getting gorgeous hair is super cheap and thus an alternative product for your hair extensions. It would be smart to add products based upon rice water to your product offering, like products from Ash & Nectar. They launched Rice Water Hair Milk.
Along with fortifying rice water, Rice Water Hair Milk mixes in essential oils like rosemary and lavender, which deep conditions and hydrates every strand, all the way down to those split ends.

Do not compete on price but on expertise

Share your knowledge with your clients and become their first point of contact for hair and beauty issues. Inform them by mail or social media about the latest developments and the solutions you have in store. This will avoid you must compete on price and will protect the beauty of your client and your wallet!

Are you going to try rice water?

Your own hair store, forget it!

Your own hair store, forget it!

Every day I speak with many girls and women about starting their dream. Your own hair store. Our first contact often is a simple short email. Expressing the intention to start selling hair and the question for support on how to start. The name of the site is well chosen, because most of these ambitious women want to know How To Sell Hair Extensions.

I prefer to continue the chat on WhatsApp, but with some women we chat using email. There is not much difference, but WhatsApp work much more better.

The energy, passion and ideas these girls have is amazing and the main source for my own inspiration. But too often after some weeks, a hurdle pops up.

This month in Kenya we had the elections. The tensions that caused these elections made some people decide to invest the money elsewhere. Or to keep your job. Anything, except to work on your own hair store.
There was also some sad news, two people diagnosed with cancer had to focus all their energy to fight this awful disease. I promised them to pray for them, and I hope the idea of their own hair store in the future will help them to keep on fighting. It’s my dream to keep contact with all for many years to come. So, the day they will be ready to start their own hair store I will be there for them.

There were also girls who got pregnant, or who started a new job. Good and great reasons to put their dreams for their own hair business on hold for some time.

But sometimes there are too many hurdles before somebody can start a hair business. Your plans can change due to circumstances you did not foresee when you started to make your dream to come true.

My advice is whatever happens please not to forget your dream to start your own hair store. Keep on thinking about this dream. Rethink on how to make your business better, design the business in your head. Give the creative part of your mind all the time to make your own hair store perfect. And when the day comes you have the time and resources, you and I will make it happen. I will support you with business and marketing advice and the best hair in my new shop anytime when you are ready for it.

Have a nice Sunday!

Do you pay your clients enough for buying your hair?

Do you pay your clients enough for buying your hair?

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Did you know the most efficient and cheapest way is to divide your time and money on your existing clients? Not only because, they already know your name and passion for hair. They can also be true ambassadors of your shop and products. They will tell their friends about the great hair salon or shop they know, your shop and your brand!

So, if clients generate new clients, why won´t you reward them for this?
There are many ways to show your appreciation to your loyal client base, below you´ll find some samples.

1. Send a birthday card. Take every opportunity to get hold of the clients birthday or any other relevant event (wedding day). Store this data in an electronic agenda and plan a reminder one or two weeks in advance. Send them a greeting card as token of your engagement. If you like you can include a personal discount voucher.
2. VIP clubs. Give your loyal client a VIP status, with for example lower shipping charges, higher discounts or free samples.
3. Call them. If you are happy about the relation with your client, why don’t you tell them. Give them a call and thank them for their loyalty.

4. Amazon gift card. Reward them by emailing gift cards. This will allow them to buy exactly what they are looking for and they will always remember you when they enjoy the use of it. To make it even more special, you can also mail the gift through ordinary post. Who does not like to open an envelope with a personal gift.

5. Thank them in a tweet or post on social media, so their friends can see how much you appreciate them.

6.Credit. Allow your loyal clients to buy on credit, instead of a lay away, or to get a hair treatment for free.

There are more ways to reward you loyal clients, please if you have a suggestion we are interested to hear your suggestions. And we will share them with your name on our website and social media, to thank you!

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