In Nigeria, barbing salon is basically a shop people visit to get haircuts; other services may include hair treatment, hair colouring, dying, dreading and locks and other beauty-related services.
Many barbershops in Nigeria render all the aforementioned services, so that explains why Nigerians prefer to call it a barbing salon. To start a successful barbing salon that will attract potential clients and customers to earn you daily returns you must put the necessary things in place.
You can also offer it as home service whereby, you go to customers’ houses to offer barring services for their families. This attracts more service fees as more barbers are now embrace this opportunity.
Equipment
You need to go the market to buy your Barbing equipment and tools. Barbing tools vary in their price but one major factor is where you buy.
Every business requires certain kits, tools and equipment to be run effectively, so does a barbing salon. However, you can do without some of those appliances and kits, while some of them are extremely important and can’t be overlooked.
To run an effective barbing salon business, you need tools & appliances, a standby generator or solar inverter for constant power supply, standard barber chairs, quality Clippers, sterilizers, standing fans, ceiling fans, Air Conditioners, cover clothes, wall mirrors, Cosmetics (Hair creams, sprays, dyes, relaxers, conditioners, facial powders, Miscellaneous tools (combs, scissors, blades, tissue papers, among others.)
Towels & towel warmer.
Rendering Home Services
Home service barbing is to have something to do first if you can’t afford a shop immediately. Instead of waiting to get all the money to rent a shop, you can start home services first by meeting your customers in their various homes to offer home service delivery for them at the comfort of their homes.
Renting a Shop
Unarguably, location can be said to be everything when it comes to businesses like this because your barbing salon needs to be in a place where it can easily be accessed.
Your shop should be located on a busy road or a place where people can easily notice, because the more strategic the location, the more customers you’re able to pull in daily.
Furnish your shop
Furnishing a barbing salon is not really much of a big deal. It is quite simple and cost-effective.
All that is required is a good and comfortable revolving chair where your customers will sit on while their hair is being cut.
In addition, you will need other chairs where your waiting customers can seat. And a table cabinet for barbing equipment like clippers, scissors, towels, and so on.
A good local carpenter can help you fix the table cabinet and chair at an affordable price.
Give your barbing salon an epic name Branding plays an important role in the success of any business; that’s why you must choose an epic and memorable name for your barbing salon.
Employ quality barbers
This depends on how you plan to run your business. Do you want to be the one working there, or you want to employ barbers that will work for you and give you daily or weekly return
Whichever it is, you must be ready to deliver the best quality services to customers that come to your shop.
If you’re the one that will be in charge of your barbershop, then you must learn all how to barb. In fact, you must be an expert barber.
If you’re not an expert barber, I’d advise you to stay clear of your business and learn for a while from another person.
The reason is, a new business must deliver only the best services. If not, you’ll lose customers even before you make them.
Get a license
Make inquiries about what license you need to get for your business as applied to your location. This will help you avoid any form of embarrassment from government or union officials.
Awareness
What do you do before and after you launch a new business? Do you just sit in your shop waiting for luck. If you want to succeed at your barbing salon business, then you must create an early awareness immediately you launch your business.
Conclusion
Be reminded that you don’t have to be a professional barber to own a barbing salon. In fact, most of the well-to-do barbing salons are owned by those who know nothing about the art.
