How To Start A Hair Barbing Business In Nigeria

It is very certain that everyone must barb, irrespective of the country economy one thing is sure that everyone's hair never stops growing, since hair doesn't stop growing, hair barbing business is highly reliable, and doesn't require agitation on about how to produce customers. With creative barbing skill and customer relationship, you can make up N10 000-N20 000 daily. Hair barbing business is a highly lucrative business I will recommend you to start with, many feel that the business is dirty and for non educated people.

A friend of mine, I after a long search for jobs with his certificate, he finally dumb it inside his box and taught of learning a skill, he got his mind made up on a salon business, he patiently endures some months training on barbing, though he formerly had an insight about the business. After the few months training he started little with loan firm and today, he is loan free and practical making profits. 

Now,  these business guides are a collection of his ideas and other Barbers, who are making a huge profit.

How to start a hair barbing business in Nigeria 
1. Acquire barbing skill- it doesn't require years to be perfect and a professional Barber, with the duration 6 months and a year, one should be able to handle all kinds of haircut properly. Just know that as a Barber you are an artist, and you must be able to appropriately to learn how trim, shaving, carving etc hairs. Making this possible, your maximum concentration is required as an apprentice, a good social behavior and humility shouldn't be kept out.
Your professional barbing skills can pave a greater way of getting more customers you never talk directly to, and good works will speak for you. Once people are pleased with your skills, you will maintain and gain more customers.
An Accessible Location- Get a good location that you can find potential customers, an environment with active movement of people, and a place where your shop can be easily be identified or seen. You can maintain target customers like a location where close to

• School 
• Shopping mall 
• Event center 
• Marketplace etc

Make sure your location it a place where you won't lose a customer for an hour each day.
3. Set-it-up: This an option you must properly make a strategic choice if you want to maintain your customers and make them comfortable. Furnished your shop with it proper equipment, paint it in a way that will attract people to just trip in because of how fancy it is.

4. Be Authorized: You can create a name for salon or use a nickname people call you, get a license from government agency through the local government you operate, this will really help you give your shop recognition whenever they want to shut down an unauthorized shops.

Types of equipment to Start A Hair Barbing business 

• Standby Generator: In Nigeria if you rely on the power supply you be might surprisingly enjoying, the next day it may not be the same, get yourself a working generator, that when there is power failure, you can start it up, Always make sure that your fuel tank is fill up by morning,  so as not to keep your customers awaiting when there is a blackout.
• Clippers: Make sure you buy good quality clipper, that won't hurt a customer when Barbing, you may even have like 2-3 Clippers, so you can replace it with, if one developing a fault. 
• Mirror: Consider having a 2-3 mirror in your shop, whereby one can enable a customer to check his/her hind head looks like. 
• Chairs: A rotating chair is advisable to use, it helps you easily maintain a spot while barbing. 
• Comb        >Wash Basin 
• Powder     >Sparkling Light 
• Table        > File
• Sterilizer  >Care Clothing
• Towel       > Brush etc 

Why You Should Start This Business 
No Recession Effect: No matter how hard is the economy of a state or country, it will never halt your barbing business, making your money won't be ceased, cuz ones hair doesn't stop sprouting up.
It's Extremely Lucrative: Unlike salary work, one has to be patient for a month before they get paid, sometimes it may not sustain you for a month, and doesn't increase but a hair barbing business improve monthly with proper monitor and good services. Let's see this mathematical expression, which is highly probable when you start your Business, if for a day you are expecting 20 customers and your price tag on a hair is N250, when multiplying both together; N250x20, that is N5 000 daily, then multiply it by 30 working days(Sunday mornings are usual time people prefer barbing), that is a bump of N150 000 Monthly, while in a year it about N1.8M, meanwhile sometimes you make more than it.
It's Being Patronize by everyone: Every Human wants to look good, many wants to constitute a model looking hair, ranging from the kids to adult, and gender; both male and female.
In Nigeria, the young primary or secondary school Girls barb their hands, because of it a policy in most Nigeria government schools in all States to keep low hair cut, until they are done their SSCE, while some female adults feel convenient with a low hair cut, so your business is everyone condescends.

How To Make Extra Income In Barbing Business

Extra Services relating to your barbing Business, this can be barbing equipment or materials or others, that you know that customers will request for them.

• You can sell hair treatment, body creams, shaving sticks, powder, shampoos, relaxer, brushes, combs, clippers, clippers blade, perfumes, files etc. Place them on show glass either standing or hang on the wall. 
• Manicure And Pedicure Services: You may employ someone who can dress fingernails properly and treat cut on legs, if you can handle them, it a more credit to you. 
• HairCut Training: There are youths in your area which you may convince to acquire barbing skills through you and start up their own business, don't feel its threat to your business, but it gives more recognition after you offer a certificate.
• Spa & Makeup Services: Depending on how large is your shop, you may create a unit in your shop and bring someone who is good at makeup services and negotiate on pay.

Guides On How To Grow Your Barbing Salon Business
Complimentary cards: A card create you more services away from home, it makes it easier for customers who love your works to reach you easily.
Advertisement: many salon owners on this Business has a custom of ignoring this, but it wonderful ways to make your Business more progressive, create awareness about your business, by placing a designed overhead or standing board at the front of your shop, this attract passerby and promote your business. Secondly, you can post your good works on social media and describe it, someone may like it and will want that style, and then they will try to reach you.
Bonanza: You can set out bonuses once a while or during yuletide or festive period, where you can give customers T-shirt and discount.

Wrap Up
There lots of money to be made in barbing business
• just have good customer behavior
• make friend with your them
• have their contact
• call them sometimes to just know how they faring
•even ask them for reason in a while you haven't seen them
• show some little concern
A 4-minute call can give a thousand Naira, just be unique.