How to operate A Barber Shop
HOW TO OPEN A BARBERSHOP ✅ Top 5 Tips for Success
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guys some content and some knowledge
that I have through this tough time
while we can't cut hair so guys today
I'm going to teach you my tips on
opening your own barber shop of course I
have my own shop I've had for almost
four years I'm gonna give you guys my
tips hope you guys enjoy it and learn
something from this but let's get into
it
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alright guys so today I'm going to teach
you guys my top five tips on how to open
your own barber shop and you know guys
it's it's not that difficult of a task
there's a lot of things that you can do
to help you out so I want to drop you
those things and I know a lot of people
dream to open their own barber shop and
so hopefully I can give you guys some
tips that can help you guys get there so
guys my number one tip for opening your
own shop is to know your why it's very
important that you know why you want to
do this that you have a good reason for
why because when the times get tough and
when you get in you know right now is a
tough time guys it's not a fun time to
hold a barber shop all the bills are due
no one's working so it makes it tough
and in this time it's my responsibility
to go find these loans and find these
things that can help us stay operating
when we get back so anyways guys you got
to know your why why do you want to open
your own barber shop for me my why I was
in the shop that was very for me to
start working at it was the walk-in shop
five chairs one of the busier shops in
town but for me as I grew it was
something that I was gonna outgrow and I
had a lot of goals I had a lot of ideas
on what I wanted to shop to look like
and where I wanted my career to go of
course I wanted to be able to charge
more I got real busy I needed to do
appointments kind of the techniques and
the style that I cut was with stuff that
they weren't doing at that shop so I
wasn't surrounded by anybody that was
going to help me grow so those all those
reasons kind of went into me wound open
my own shop and then as I mentioned
before guys I had three friends that
were in barber school they were going to
be out of school soon and they needed a
shop to work in so the shop I was at was
full there was a few other opportunities
in town of course if I left there there
there would have been a chair there so
but but not very many opportunities for
my guys so that's really what pushed me
after knowing that I wanted to grow I
wanted to charge more I wanted to go to
appointments so I could schedule better
I knew those things for something that I
wanted and then I had friends who needed
a job and needed the chair they had
nowhere to go so it just kind of worked
out I knew that if I opened the shop
that I had three guys coming in and that
was going to give them an opportunity
and also guys my goal for opening this
shop was to open a shop that those guys
could thrive in i never wanted them to
be held back by the same thing by price
by the way the appointments are walkins
were set up i want them to be able to
thrive be as busy as they want cut how
they want and really take their career
as far as they want
so that was my number one reason was to
give myself and my guys in place where
they could grow and take this as far as
they wanted and that's my why guys it's
it's it's freedom for me freedom for my
guys and you know like i said through
these tough times it's my responsibility
to keep this going so that when we get
back
we'll have a place to work and you know
this why I signed up I got eight other
bar business that live off of this shop
and so I owe it to these guys to keep it
together and this is my livelihood guys
I'll be honest I've really been
struggling lately not cutting hair not
saving my team not saving my clients
this has turned into everything that I
do so it's my youtube it's you know it's
my side hustle it's my you know it's all
these different all this main part of my
life that's missing right now so it's
been tough but you know I signed up to
be in charge I'm gonna tough it out and
figure it out through all these tough
times we're gonna get back together
there so but number one guys you got to
know your why you got to make sure that
that's a good reason I definitely don't
recommend opening the shop just for the
money where you can make some money and
we'll talk into that later but if you're
doing this just to make money you know
it's not gonna be a fun ride for you
that the actual shop itself and we'll go
into it more but it's not as much of a
moneymaker as people may think so we're
gonna get into that next so I'll roll
right into my next point guys and number
two on open your shop money bills
employees you need to have all those
numbers figured out okay so as you go
into opening your own shop make sure you
have these numbers on what the rents
gonna cost what the utilities are gonna
cost what all of your expenses are for
the shop what the build-outs gonna cost
where are you getting that money from
luckily for me guys I had a close friend
he's retired and the company he worked
for put a lot of money in the stock for
him and he matched that in over the
years his stop his rose and so he's
sitting pretty nice and he's fortunate
enough for me he's a good friend of mine
and he was willing to help me open the
shop when he heard that I was wanting to
so for me my build-out money came from a
personal friend
guys no you can go to the bank and get
small business loans a lot a lot of
clients maybe you may have some clients
that are better off that would be
willing to work with you but yeah guys
so figure out where your money is going
to come from if you need to go to a bank
if you have a family or friend that
could be an investor and let you borrow
figure all that out and then on top of
that you need to figure out what your
monthly costs going to be so what's your
rent utilities anything else that you
have in the shop that costs Internet
anything you pick up and drop off maybe
you have somebody do your towels any
services you want to have make sure you
have those numbers totaled up you put
that in one side to say that say that
will break it down to make it easy for
you guys so let's say the total bills
for everything is a thousand bucks we'll
call it to be safe that you're gonna get
four weeks out of a month for both rent
so that means that 250 a week will pay
your thousand bucks a month so then how
many chairs will detect to get you 250 a
week and now that goes into how much you
want to charge for booth rent and all of
that now guys I'll tell you for me
booter was the way to go I really don't
want to complicate doing Commission and
having to have a computer system if you
gotta have a computer system everybody
has to bring up their haircuts have a
cash register
of course that's on paper that's more
debit cards more transactions not so
much just cash in simple transactions
either either you do the computer system
or you just trust that all you guys are
gonna keep perfect track of how many
here because they did and hand you a
percentage at the end of the day and if
for me guys to be honest like I said
these guys were my friends coming in I
wanted to give them a spot where they
could really thrive and I feel like
taking 40% or 50% of what they make just
wasn't putting them in a good position
and that was getting me to make more
money so call me dumb whatever you guys
want to say obviously I couldn't be
making more money so for me it was a
situation where me just not having to
pay booth rent coming from the other
shop I came here the guys paid booth
rent it covers the bills and I don't
have to pay I get to keep everything I
make that was enough for me to to be
worth opening my own shop and then I
knew that as we grew eventually the shop
would pay me but doing Commission and
really taking a lot of their harder
he didn't sound like something I would
want to sign up for and again guys I was
trying to give people a place that they
can thrive so I went with booth right I
found out how many barbers it took now
as we've grown the bills have gone up of
course more chairs more electricity we
have more more things in here we got a
half a music account we we got streaming
that we do different stuff ATT security
you know I can the list goes on of
things that the shop calls for but those
things are covered by the booth rent and
then anything left over eventually will
be mine so I chose to go that route that
made me feel better of giving my guys a
place that they can thrive as opposed to
doing Commission and like I said
Commission to me guys was a lot more
technical computer system or really
keeping track and Commission kind of
makes them employees it just changes the
whole set up so I'm not gonna tell you
guys you can't do that I will say that I
don't know anything about Commission and
what it takes to go about doing that so
for me booth road was easy everybody
keeps what they make at the end of the
week they pay me I put it in the shop
account to pay the bills and that's
that's simple for me so that's what I
ended up choosing to go with so alright
guys so my number three tip is find out
what makes you different what is gonna
make you different as a barbershop and
what's going to set you up for success
so for us it still kind of goes into my
same reasons that I opened the shop I
noticed that there was a lot of new
trends in barbering with the way that we
cut hair the hairstyles just just be
more knowledgeable having better tools
better equipment going to training and
classes and learning and giving out a
better product and the overall
experience being better so my I was just
like why I left where I was I wanted to
bring a better experience I wanted to
bring a higher quality higher cost you
know there are people out there that
want the premium things there's also
people out there that want a twelve
dollar haircut so I will tell you guys
whatever that is whatever your Y is
whatever your reason that you're gonna
do it the way you want to do it is
there's a spot for you so I got guys on
with the barber school that work in
small towns to charge 10 bucks a haircut
they do like 10 minute 10 dollar
haircuts I got guys that
to school with me that work here that we
charge triple that and spend three four
times the the amount of time during
those haircuts so figure out what makes
you different guys what opening is there
in the in the area that you're at what
is lacking in the area that you're at so
for us we wanted to bring much more
detail not as rushed haircut something
that you know you can sit for 30 45
minutes relax get a good experience with
the best haircut you could get in town
we did cost a little more but like I
said there are people that like to buy
premium and they they understand that
they're getting their money's worth when
they spend more so for me the difference
was that we were gonna be the top of the
line
the first barber shop around to start
bringing these new styles and these
actual skin fades these actual detailed
technical haircuts that I believe no one
else in town can do so that really is
what set us apart and that that was what
I counted on coming in a new experience
a new look some knowledge that we can
offer our clients better haircuts better
styles than they've ever had before
also we created a brand you guys see I
got the clutch shirt on so we sell
shirts often so a lot of our clients
wear shirts just just a whole different
experience guys it's like I said though
if you want to do the five dollar
haircuts and do forty a day there's this
there's a spot for you if you want to do
a medium grade shop that does walkins
and charges twelve bucks and you do this
that and the other you can do that if
you want to do an appointment-only high
end if you want do a studio you guys can
do this however you want just figure out
why you're doing that and what you're
gonna do that's going to make you
successful before you get into that and
then you guys can be successful I do
believe that number four guys is who is
your staffs gonna be so you need to have
an idea when you go in if you have no
idea and you say I'm gonna open up a
shop over here it's gonna be this price
I'm gonna have three chairs and I'm
gonna find barbers then what you need to
do going in is understand can you cover
the bills by yourself without those
barbers not having people guaranteed to
be coming to your shop obviously is a
risk so say you set up the whole shop
you're ready to open and you don't have
any barbers then you need to be sure
that you can pay those bills by yourself
with the income that you're bringing in
so again guys I wouldn't recommend
coming straight out of school and
opening a shop because you're not gonna
have clientele then the shop names not
going to have any
ring to it nobody's gonna know the name
so what I did was I wouldn't work for
two years I built my clientele I made a
name for myself and when I opened the
shop my Barber's coming in already had
my name on them that if they work for me
they must be doing what I'm doing and of
course they weren't as good coming out
of school but the goal was to put out
what I was putting out and that's what
the shop was about was I couldn't cut
everybody's hair that one of me I needed
more people that were working like me
that had the same goals as me and the
same skills as me and so I knew I had
three barbers that we're gonna come in
that had kind of followed my lead and we
were we were working off of each other
to put out the same product the same
experience and so for me I knew I had
those three guys I knew that the three
of them would cover the bills I wouldn't
have to pay rent and then we could work
up from there so for you guys if you
don't have any barbers you need to make
sure you can pay the bills by yourself
if you know you got one guy then you
need to talk with him and say hey what I
would do is say hey when we open this
shop are you cool with splitting will
split the bills straight up first off
I'm the owner technically eventually I
don't want to pay both rent but as now
as we're getting started me and you're
gonna split it and once we get another
guy he'll cover the other half and you
know however you want to go about it but
make sure yourself for success with the
staff that you have coming in and make
sure that you either set yourself up to
cover it yourself because you don't have
staff coming in or make sure that you
have the right number of people and you
know those people and know that those
numbers add up and will take care of the
shop at the end of the day
all right guys my number five tip and
this is the most important guys and this
goes with anything is my favorite part
of being a barber but guys use your
resources at hand it's so a good example
guys you're opening your shop you need
all this construction work done right we
got we have such a big clientele base as
a barber you have somebody I promise
that can help you with that or know
somebody that can do that so for me guys
I had people in here helping us with the
demolition I had a client that came with
the trailer they helped his haul stuff
off to the dump I had a client that
helps with the plumbing
I had a guy that does home remodels he
was able to get paint for me at his cost
you know stuff like that guys so use
your resources like I said guys these
are my favorite people I take care of my
clients like they're very special to me
these are my close friends
and in return when I need something from
these guys that on their own business or
I can help it anyway
you know they bring that back and
reciprocate it so that's one of the most
valuable parts you can't even put a
price on that guys it's being a barber
and having these clients that have you
know their their business to offer to
help you and so I definitely to my
clients I go out of my way if it's an
emergency and they need one of my day
off I'm coming up here if it's late and
they called me and they're like hey man
I know you're closed and I have I have
to get a cut to that can you get me in
I'm gonna get them in and guys what
makes us so awesome is when I really
need them that got me just like that
so guys use your resources we have such
a broad spectrum of clients to do all
kinds of things so all aspects of
opening the shop you should be able to
get some help in some certain way so
guys I got clients at Best Buy that
helped me get the TVs from my shop I got
clients at Menards they actually
delivered my tool chest for me really
everywhere guys so definitely use your
resources and that's going to be
throughout this whole time so even right
now guys in the midst of this I'm using
my resources and reaching out to clients
that work at the bank that know finances
to figure out ways to get these small
business loans and figure out
unemployment and all these things so
guys use your resources use your clients
that you know have them help you get set
up for success in your shop and you guys
should have no problem anyways guys I
hope this video helps guys I followed
all these tips these are my best tips
and we have an on chair barber shop now
with the salon next door and we're
actually thinking about expanding so I
hope this helps guys good luck guys if
you're hoping to open your own barber
shop if you have any more questions feel
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