Start Your Own Hair Salon and Day Spa: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success (StartUp Series)

Product Description

Personal care, newfound energy, and a revitalized appearance remain invaluable commodities among consumers. Learn the ins and outs of starting a successful business in one of today’s hottest industries: salons and day spas.

From laying the groundwork and establishing yourself in the marketplace to holding a grand opening and developing service policies, this step-by-step guide takes you from big-picture plans to day-to-day dealings in your new spa and salon. Plus, gain insight, advice, and tips from interviews with practicing hair salon and day spa owners.

From the Inside Flap

Discover the Beauty of Success
Personal care, newfound energy, and a revitalized appearance remain invaluable commodities among consumers, creating a billion-dollar industry overflowing with opportunity. Whether youre a practicing cosmetologist or just attracted to the business of beauty, the experts at Entrepreneur show you how to lay the groundwork for success with a salon services startup.
Learn how to:

Legally establish your business

Define the services and products your salon and spa will offer

Pick the right location and set up with cutting-edge equipment

Create your menu of treatments and set prices

Hire the right, licensed team of professionals

Cut risk with the proper licenses and insurance

Get organized with included industry-specific worksheets and forms

Establish yourself in the marketplace and engage your ideal clientele

Attract new and repeat customers with proven advertising and PR tactics

Plan for growth with professional development and additional resourcesPlus, gain insight, advice, and tips from interviews with practicing hair salon and day spa owners

Grab your share of this growing industry and style your way to ?shear success, today!

From the Back Cover

Discover the Beauty of Success
Personal care, newfound energy, and a revitalized appearance remain invaluable commodities among consumers, creating a billion-dollar industry overflowing with opportunity. Whether you’re a practicing cosmetologist or just attracted to the business of beauty, the experts at Entrepreneur show you how to lay the groundwork for success with a salon services startup.
Learn how to:

Legally establish your business

Define the services and products your salon and spa will offer

Pick the right location and set up with cutting-edge equipment

Create your menu of treatments and set prices

Hire the right, licensed team of professionals

Cut risk with the proper licenses and insurance

Get organized with included industry-specific worksheets and forms

Establish yourself in the marketplace and engage your ideal clientele

Attract new and repeat customers with proven advertising and PR tactics

Plan for growth with professional development and additional resourcesPlus, gain insight, advice, and tips from interviews with practicing hair salon and day spa owners

Grab your share of this growing industry and style your way to “shear” success, today!

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Entrepreneur Media, Inc. is the premier content provider for and about entrepreneurs. Our products engage and inspire every day with advice, solutions, and resources that fuel the bold and independent way entrepreneurs think. After 31 years, nobody reaches more growing businesses.
Entrepreneur Press is a leading small-business trade publisher, providing aspiring, emerging, and growing entrepreneurs with actionable solutions to every business challenge–ultimately, leading them from business idea to business success.
Eileen Figure Sandlin is an award-winning writer and the author of 18 nonfiction books. She also has written more than 800 articles and thousands of newsletter articles. Sandlin is a professor of business communication, interpersonal communication and English at a major Midwest university.