Back Alley Nails | Application Preview
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 86-2605455
Location: Tampa, FL, United States
Length of Operation: 1
Number of Employees:
Annual Gross Income:
Annual Gross Expense:
Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
The funding would provide the necessary money to finish the renovations on the salon. Finishing the bathroom in accordance to city guidelines, upgrading the flooring, upgrading the employee desks for better ergonomics and organization, and providing additional products to use within our services. This grant would allow us the means to source, hire, and train new artists to join us before the holiday season.
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Business Plan
Back Alley Nails is the first LGBT locally owned salon in the Kenwood neighborhood of St. Petersburg. We are the only salon actively marketing towards the trans and male community. Our team is made of extraordinary artists that allow us to offer hand-painted and customized designs to each one of our clients. We are the only salon in the area to offer this. Over the next two years, I hope to grow the Back Alley Nails team to 8-10 artists in order to provide a unique, intimate, personalized experience to all. Through collaboration, our clients will be able to request a service that fits their wishes -- most salons can't offer that. Men, women, LGBT community, people of colors - all are welcome and will continue to be welcome at our shop. Back Alley Nails is a safe and intimate environment meant to be harshly different from the competition. We aren't a team of 30 people rushing and hurting people through the "typical" nail salon experience. We are a small local team of passionate artists that constantly strive to upkeep the health and wellbeing of our client's nails while providing a nail art service that is unattainable anywhere else in St. Petersburg, FL. We aren't corporate, we aren't a chain - we are your neighbors and friends. We are here to maintain St. Petersburg as the small business locally-owned city that it is.
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Self Identified Competition
Paint Nail Bar - Corporate Nail Salon located in Downtown St. Petersburg. They hire brand new, inexperienced nail technicians and claim to be able to provide services equivalent to ours - though their team lacks the skills and training to do so. Nouvelle Beauty Bar - a large "standard-salon" located in downtown St. Petersburg. Their goal is quantity over quality - something that all clients dislike. Art of Nails - a booth-rental salon located in Pinellas Park, FL. Their team is a small group of talented artists, but are often turning away clients due to lack of time. There is a notable need for a locally-owned salon that uses high quality products, focuses on the level of experience and services offered, and has the team to be able to be available to all. Our team has the high quality product and experience that Nouvelle Beauty Bar is unable to provide. At Paint, they claim to do extensive and advanced nail art techniques - though don't have the training or experience to do so. We claim to do extensive and advanced nail art, and we deliver. Unlike Art of Nails, we are available to everyone - and no one will be turned away because of who they are or what they look like. Back Alley Nails is a safe space meant for all to be celebrated, welcomed, and loved.
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