Launch and Grow your Dream Business

• Work ON  the business instead of IN it

The vital first step for any business owner looking to scale a business is to start by taking a look at where you are in the current moment. By doing a thorough audit of your business, you’ll see where most of your time is being taken, and where you can delegate tasks. Many salon owners have a full roster of clients, which doesn't leave enough time to work on building the business and managing your team. If you’re to successfully grow, you need to give yourself time to get off the shop floor. It takes energy, time and money to focus on building a business - prioritise your time wisely instead of simply working to other people’s agendas

• Surround yourself with knowledgeable people

Leadership means taking a step back sometimes. It’s important you surround yourself with people who can do the things you can’t do. As a business owner, there is a danger in wanting to be good at everything. Don’t be afraid of bringing in experts to help your business grow, and remember you can’t be good at everything, so you should surround yourself, whether it be through networking, getting a business coach or joining strategic groups, with other positive people who have expertise complementary to your own.

• Systemise your business

We can’t emphasise enough the benefits of having systems in place in all aspects of your business. This will ensure smooth day to day running, and will enable you to pass certain tasks onto your staff in order to spend more time working on the business growth itself. If you want to expand your business, whether that be through opening another salon or changing direction slightly, it’s important that your first business is running well. Implementing systems will ensure this is the case.

• Up-skill to become the expert

If you want to start your own business, or even get into education, develop own skill set first. Having the initial training will set you up for future success. Once you’ve mastered the classic foundation techniques then you can start to get creative. Get out there, assist other educators on events, find out what other people in the industry are doing. A good educator must be selfless and have a genuine desire to help others. Figure out where your skills set lies and what you want to teach in the first step. You need to know how to engage students and make them the hero of their own businesses too.