For people who grow up and have a love for everything beauty related, the dream to have your own salon can be pretty intense. There is something so romantic about the idea of owning your own salon where people can come and let the worries of the day fall away as they sit in a pedicure chair and vent about their lives while they get pampered and told how beautiful they are.
When you’re the salon owner, it’s also pretty cool to get all the beauty treatments you can imagine for free, or at least a discounted rate. Manicures, pedicures, cuts, colors, waxes, massages, the best salons even have shopping sections in them. If you’ve had a dream of having your own salon, here are things you need to do to make that dream real:
Go to Cosmetology School
Of course cosmetology school isn’t really a necessary precursor to owning your own salon, but if you have that much of a passion for it, the chances are good that you’ve already thought about it, or done it. If you want to have credit with your own salon and have people take you seriously, it’s a good idea to get the education you need so that you can not only work on clients yourself, but also build a reputation as a salon that knows all there is to know about beauty.
Cosmetology school will teach you so many valuable skills that you can then pass on to the people that you have working in your establishment. If you just approach it as a business and don’t have the knowledge to back it, you probably will have a harder time.
Study Business on the Side
The secret to success in life is education. There is no other way to put it. Those who excel do so because they know what they’re doing. Just because you have a love for beauty and give a really good facial doesn’t mean that you’re going to have a successful business. If you really want to do well, you’ll want to not only go to cosmetology school, you’ll also want to study business on the side. It’s important to know how business works, know how to market, know how to manage money, and know all of the other things that come with it if you want to have a salon that flourishes.
Rally Up Community Support
People like to see local business flourish. If you’re opening a salon, rally up community support. Get local stylists to rent from your space, hold promotions for surrounding businesses for services, ask them to advertise in exchange for a service. Do all you can to make yourself known to the community and give back. A business that makes people feel amazing but also helps where there is a need is a business that will flourish.
Originally posted on July 26, 2016 @ 2:54 pm