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Start your company the simple way
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>See also: The GOAT (greatest of all time) guide on how to start a home business
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A Beginner's Guide to Building a Profitable Ecommerce Business
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Slow Down! Why Starting Slow Is the Right Speed for Business Success
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Even if you’re in the second half of your life and worried about getting your business started quickly, we’ll tell you why taking it slow is your best bet.
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Starting a beauty business: mobile vs salon
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Working as a beautician was once synonymous with doing business from a salon, but in an age where convenience is king, many entrepreneurs have found it more rewarding to set up their own mobile beauty businesses instead.
This involves pampering customers from the comfort of their own homes. Although, as Salon Gold notes, being a mobile beautician isn’t the same as going freelance. Freelancing simply means being self-employed, but not necessarily on a mobile basis. For example, a freelance hairdresser may choose to rent a seat in someone else’s salon rather than travelling from place to place.
Opening a salon and starting a mobile business are two exciting ways to start making money from your passion, but both are very different. Explore the pros and cons of each option to see which is the best path for your beauty venture.
Going mobile
Setting up
As you’re not required to find premises to start a mobile beauty business, all you’ll need is your equipment and a mode of transport. Public transport may be an option if your business specialises in smaller-scale services like nail art and make-up artistry, but if you need a full arsenal of tools to do
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The GOAT (greatest of all time) guide on how to start a home business
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Many of us would relish the chance to put our skills and ideas to work in our very own business, not to mention the opportunity to ditch our daily commute. So then, what’s stopping us taking the next logical step and going it alone by running your business from home?
So can it really be the case that all you need to succeed as a home-based entrepreneur is your toolkit, smartphone and laptop? Well, not quite. But it’s certainly doable. This guide aims to point you in the right direction for getting your business on the go.
Is working from home the right thing for me and my business?
As always, start with your objectives before considering whether a home-based business is the best way of achieving them. With this in mind, here are two concerns common to many entrepreneurs at this stage:
“I want to do things my way…”
If you have multiple commitments to juggle, the idea of starting up from home may seem ideal. Remember that the challenge of balancing family and career doesn’t automatically disappear if you’re home-based. Yes, it’s easier in practical terms to jump from one to the other, but you’ll almost
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4 Hurdles Every Fintech Startup Must Overcome
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Vested CEO and author Daniel Simon helps break down what you need to know before readying to launch.
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How I started my business – The Little Black & White Book Project
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Ruth Bradford, 38, launched The Little Black & White Book Project, a collection of black-and-white picture books teaching infants about animals and nature, in March 2018, having spent six years in Southeast Asia.
Pregnant with her son while living in Singapore and learning about the benefits of black-and-white images for newborn visual development, she was underwhelmed by the small selection on offer at the time. She decided to create her own. Bradford credits The Little Black & White Book Project really taking off when she created a website and sold directly to new parents.
Bradford started with three board books and one set of flash cards reflecting the places she had visited – safari in Africa, the rainforests of Southeast Asia and the Australian bush. Within nine months of launch she had won Enterprise Nation Female Start-up of the Year and been invited to 10 Downing Street.
Bradford says The Little Black & White Book Project is on track to triple her revenue in 2020-21 with 25 wholesale clients, as well as selling to five online marketplaces, obtaining national distribution, as well as direct sales via her website and social channels.
Still a one-woman-band,
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How I started my business – Zaffrin O’Sullivan, Five Dot Botanics
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Zaffrin O’Sullivan, 41, first had the idea for Five Dot Botanics back in 2017. She wondered why the packaging for skincare products listed impenetrable ingredients at a time when consumers were demanding ingredient transparency in food and cleaning products.
O’Sullivan found a cosmetic scientist and spent two years developing her products along with designing the brand and a website alongside her day job working in television. The idea was to create a range of skincare products with only five easily understandable ingredients each. Five Dot had its first manufacturing run in the spring of 2019 and launched direct to consumer last July. The brand is already stocked in health food chain Holland & Barrett.
Five Dot raised funding from start-up seed investment fund Worth Capital, managed by Amersham Investment Management, and plans to enter another fundraising round later this year.
Only this week, O’Sullivan won a place on the coveted Sephora Accelerate 2020 programme and she plans to spend time in the US and Paris developing her brand for international distribution.
O’Sullivan still runs Five Dot Botanics as a side-hustle, as she still works in TV as a lawyer. And, if that’s not enough,