The Recommended Steps To Open and Start a Hair Salon Business Successfully By A Marketing Company Thats Been There And Done That
Salon Suite Pal business started out as a Hair Salon renting a 10' x 10' Salon Suite Business with just one Hair Stylist and an Internet Marketer. We quickly grew into a brick and mortar storefront Hair Salon Business by using our Salon Marketing Plan.
So we suggest that you start small and think small before you go big. This means the business starts with you. You have to be the strongest link and be able to support your business alone if worst comes to worst. Look around, every business that is either successful, or is trying to be successful has to have an Optimize Online Professional Business Presence that will allow your business to be discoverable by Search Engines and then findable by clientele. A well built Search Friendly Hair Salon Website can not only support your business but rapidly grow your business promoting Growth, Success, and Wealth as our Website out performed our High Drive By and Foot Traffic Salon by 8 times more, meaning we really did not have to rent our expensive Storefront Hair Salon to be successful. Actually it became a liability because of the high rent, operating cost and long lease agreement.
The decision is yours but what all options have in common is that you have to have a Good Online Hair Salon Website that Promotes Growth, Success, and Wealth to help start, open and run your Hair Salon Business successful.
So we suggest that you start small and think small before you go big. This means the business starts with you. You have to be the strongest link and be able to support your business alone if worst comes to worst. Look around, every business that is either successful, or is trying to be successful has to have an Optimize Online Professional Business Presence that will allow your business to be discoverable by Search Engines and then findable by clientele. A well built Search Friendly Hair Salon Website can not only support your business but rapidly grow your business promoting Growth, Success, and Wealth as our Website out performed our High Drive By and Foot Traffic Salon by 8 times more, meaning we really did not have to rent our expensive Storefront Hair Salon to be successful. Actually it became a liability because of the high rent, operating cost and long lease agreement.
- Step 1. Is to invest in getting a Professionally Design Search Engine Friendly Salon Website while working in a Commission Salon if you have to. Your website will become your best business partner. You will use your website to generate nearly free unlimited recurring clientele leads through out your entire Cosmetologist Career. The longer your Stylist Website is active, increases your descoverablity rate with the Search Engines, so there is no reason to wait.
- Step 2. Once you have build your clientele list well enough to pay for a low cost salon suite or booth rental.
- Step 3. Start your Hair Salon business working out a Salon Suite in your local area. (This is the Least Stress but Smaller Salary Potential) Once you get to the point where you start rejecting work because you are being over booked.
- Step 4. You will have options. The option to continue working for yourself by yourself in a Salon Suite or to open up a much larger brick and mortar storefront Hair Salon and hire. Hair Stylist can only make as much money that the time a day allows. Meaning you can make a good salary more than a $100,000 salary just working for yourself but you will be limited time if you want to make more money.
- Step 5. However if you want to make more money you will have to scale and open up a larger Storefront Salon, then hire other Hair Stylists to work for you as (Option 1) Commission Employees. (The Most Stressful with The Highest Salary Potential but a lot of work comes with it) You can choose (Option 2) Booth Renting as another option but your salary increase potential is limited to the amount of Seats and Stylist Stations. (Booth Renting is Mid to Low Stress with limited Salary Potential and but seems last longer than a Commission Salon because everyone works for themselves and there is less jealousy) Booth renting is the easiest way to earn some extra money and have your bills paid for by Renters and have extra cash left over not including your Cosmetology Salary that you can keep for yourself. It is much less stressed than owning a (Option 3) Commission Salon, but you could make much more money by going commission but this is a very stressful option. Note. You will be generating most or if not all the clientele generated by your Business Presence. Hair Stylists will build themselves up to leave supporting the industry known high turnover rate. Beside all that. You may have to manage, hire receptionist - Shampoo Assistance, pay utilities, maintenance, payroll, and deal with customer complaints that is not generated by you but your employees.
The decision is yours but what all options have in common is that you have to have a Good Online Hair Salon Website that Promotes Growth, Success, and Wealth to help start, open and run your Hair Salon Business successful.
Salon Start Up Website Versus A High Foot & Drive By Traffic Brick-and-Mortar Storefront Table Chart
Value |
Hair Salon Start Up Plan |
High Traffic Storefront |
Start Up Cost |
Low Monthly Cost Starting at $75 With A Setup Fee Starting At $50 |
Long Term Lease: $1800 - $3300 A Month In My Area for 1200 sq ft. Plus Start Up Cost For Us Was $100,000 |
Optimize Website |
Yes |
No |
Discoverable by Internet by Having An Optimize Online Business Presence |
Yes |
No |
Clientele Leads Generation Performance Ranked 1 out of 10 |
8 |
2 |
Supports By Appointment Only Businesses. Only Work When You Have Clients |
Yes |
No & Yes: Most Brick and Mortar Landlords Require Businesses To Be Open To Support Other Businesses In Their Plazas. Also Someone Has To Serve Walk-Ins |
Drive By and Foot Traffic |
No but do not need to if you have a low cost business operation like working out a Salon Suite |
Yes But May Not Be Enough Depending On Location |
Paid Advertising |
Your Lease Site Is Ongoing Salon Marketing and Advertising, generating low cost recurring, unlimited clientele leads. |
Will Have To Invest In A Website Soon Or Later, But Lets Hope It is Optimize. A website that isn't Optimize is just a website. The only people that will find you is the people you give your web address to |