So my wife wants to start her own hair/nail salon, not a stay at home salon but a type of "delivery" business...

So my wife wants to start her own hair/nail salon, not a stay at home salon but a type of "delivery" business. Does anybody have any good tips for starting these types of businesses?

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>Does anybody have any good tips for starting these types of businesses?

don't buy her the cheapest knee pads, user. you get what you pay for

>but a type of "delivery" business
So she will give haircuts to NEETs who dont want to leave their home?

She's not a hairdresser, she graduated last year as a civil engineer and has not had any luck with jobs. She wants to manage this small business

Do it user. Get your business under an llc. Get an operations agreement. Get some general and professional business insurance, a domain name, a website, a scheduling app, business cards and a vehicle. You must figure out how the set up can be made to be efficient and workable. Do some serious advertising and set up a payment/invoice model. Before all of this though set up a business plan. This is the easy part, the hard part is getting clients, but you can do it

Thanks for the advice!

If your wife wants to start It, why doesn't she have a business plan you can refer to?

No problem user, I hope you succeed. All the resources you could want are online. Don't forget you will need an IRS number for your business. You guys will have to bust ass advertising and marketing the business. Canvass door to door, set up a good sales pitch. Get a nice looking business logo for cheap, many places online will do this. Get some affordable shirts with your company name and logo and wear those whenever you canvas neighborhoods. Also, study the demographics of your area and only target those who's economic demographics allow them to waste the money in convenience. This is the best help I can give you user, you must do the leg work now. Good luck.

Let me guess, you are paying off her student loan debt too? Lmfao.

checkbox list:
-are you sponsoring it?
-it is her first time to run a small business?
If the answer is YES to both, be prepared to waste money in exchange of "ok, we (you) failed, but at least you (we) tried".

>She's not a hairdresser, she graduated last year as a civil engineer
It seems a very dumb decision to me, she can start with an internship and build her career from there, she is an engineer, not a fucking hairdresser

it looks like you are trying to chase unicorns...

You should get your wife's son and daughter to assist her then you have the house to yourself.

This guy is right though, i missed the oart where he said she isn't a hair dresser. Without the skills it will be extremely difficult to learn as you go. Fucking up someone's hair can turn into an ugly situation

I own a salon AMA

Are you a hairdresser, is it of much importance if she's not a hairdresser?

My friends ex girlfriend did this.. pretty sure she was cheating on him all the time.. she just seemed like that type of girl.

It was a pretty good sign when she would go to the same 3-4 dudes house 2 times every week.. yeah.. those guys hair must be growing very fucking fast!!

Yes we are heavily into beauty therapy here since we're all gay

I am not, my partner is. You don’t have to cut hair to run a salon, but finding talent can be an issue. We went w2 route and hired everyone

My family made our come up from working in nail salons to eventually owning our own.
>Be Vietnamese (this is the race that runs nail salons and hair salons normally
>Hire 5-6 workers and only pay them when you get paid. (Assuming 60/40 split.) We did 50/50 split during the summer months because they would work hard and we didn't need to do as much.
>Don't buy the chink shit or cheap products. And if you do , buy a good product and use it and empty out the bottle and fill it with the cheap shit. No one really knows anyways.
>Hair salons are retarded because most bitches who get haircuts , you can overcharge the shit out of them. And building a relationship with them , makes them pay you more.
>Stay away from hair salons if you don't know how to cut hair. Keep doing the nail salon.
>You are going to need a lot of startup equipment. (Grinder / nail clippers etc) this will be the majority of your expenditures.
>if you are facing against Vietnamese people , we will make sure u lose against us in the market. Why? Because when my ancestors came over here , we came here and decided either we were going to grow weed or do nails. We are good at both.
>Equipment is heavy and tedious to deal with especially small containers of individual colors. Some bitches now Love to some shellac and some other plastic shit. (Look on Instagram , I've seen a bitch ask my mom for a fishbowl on her finger.)

All in all , your wife will become our bitch. And if you are paying for it... You will be too.

I'm having the same idea just with fitness. Mobile fitness trainer with my equipment.

I am all ears for input.

Biggest problem w mobile salon most girls want color and you can’t process color easily without a rinse bowl and running water . There’s also code enforcement which can vary per state

That works. I doubt you are going to be carrying massive dumbbells and shit. Just do prisoner workouts and get paid. Shits cash.

Mobile barbershop is a money idea though

Oh and barbers are way less drama

I think it's a growth business, personally, but you're looking at a real cut throat industry.
Does she have any idea what the majority of hairstylists are like? From personal experience dealing with the psychos my entire life. Do you want to know who you''ll probably be dealing with and meeting?

She'll need a specific license, aside from the regular cosmetologist's license issued by the city/county, just to be able to travel with her equipment and perform her trade. She'll need to advertise her business and build a clientèle, and that can take an amateur starting out maybe a few years just to get somewhere comfortable.
This guy is retarded, don't listen to him; and stop replying to him The product and material she'll be investing in aren't cheap either. She'll have access to professional shops in the area to purchase high-grade materials that will make a high-schooler's kitchen sink blue dyed hair look like a petrified piece of dog shit compared to a ~60-100$ color that will last almost half a year with proper care.
Some of my earliest memories are of me hanging out with a bunch of big-titty hairstylists. AMA faggot.
>doing nails is an ENTIRELY different business from doing hair
>southeast asians don't fuck around with their nail business, just be warned

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nice ellipses boomer
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Won't be a problem, the idea is for her to manage this small businesss.

I can bet that finding talent is a big issue, specially when you have someone worth the money and suddenly they leave.

I'm all ears, thanks to everyone.

I told her to open up a restaurant, I want to make a sort of Hard Rock hotel restaurant but with Pizza

Is that what their calling prostitution these days?

> Haha just get an internship loool

>she graduated last year as a civil engineer and has not had any luck with jobs

I graduated with a chem eng degree and took a job doing civil/ coding after looking for year and doing roofing in the meantime. Job market is fucked but I'd expand my search to include other engineering disciplines before just saying "fuck it I'll cut hair". If she's smart enough to do discrete structural analysis she'll probably find it soul crushing after the initial "I'm doing something new!" rush wears off.

ok

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You need a license to practice cosmetology so tell her to keep pounding the pavement on engineering gigs instead before she gets a fine for illegal business operation.