Impressions full service hair Salon | Application Preview
Impressions Full Service Hair Salon is applying for government grant funding to improve its facilities and expand its services. The total funding request amounts to $55,000, broken down as follows: $25,000 for roofing repairs including an ice and rain prevention system, $24,000 for parking lot and driveway renovations, and $6,000 to replace outdated flooring and install new advertising signage.
The salon plans to enhance its marketing strategy by creating a new website and increasing its presence on platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. In addition, advertising will be utilized on restaurant placemats, and the new signage will be designed to attract attention from a distance.
The owner emphasizes their commitment to community service through various charitable activities, particularly supporting children and women facing challenges such as illness. They offer free services to the elderly in a local nursing home, showcasing a strong dedication to giving back.
While facing competition from nearby salons like Cost Cutters and Great Clips, the owner believes their extensive experience—30 years in the industry—sets them apart. The salon offers a uniquely spacious and relaxing environment featuring a fireplace, cathedral ceilings, and a waterfall. The owner has professional training in color techniques and management, having previously worked for a prominent salon chain. They also provide specialized services for those requiring privacy, like cancer patients, and have developed a computer program for clients to visualize different hairstyles.
With a background in business management and programming from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, along with a strong reputation in the community, the salon owner is well-positioned to manage the business effectively and enhance its growth.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 390805808
Location: Stevens Point, WI, United States
Length of Operation: 11plus
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: Less than $100k
Annual Gross Expense: Less than $100k
Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
Estimates for the new roofing including remover and ice and rain preventing on the edges and new facia. Estimates 25,000,. The parking and driveway will be in the range of 24,000. The remaining 6,000 would replace the 40 year old flooring and a new advertising lite signage. Increase inventory of hair produces to be sold and increase service products, color, bleach, perms, straightens, etc.
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Business Plan
I will design a web page and reach out more with promoting my salon through, yp yellow pages, on google, and facebook and twitter. will also pay for restraunt advertising on the placemats that are laminted. the new lite sign will be larger, and neon which will show off more and from a distance I am a member of a small business group of Portage County. I have done charity work for children with physical and mental hardships . Ive helped women going through not only breast cancer, and any other cancer they have. With the expense of medicans , or not being able to work, something like getting their hair cut or colored to hide the gray. Ive given and help hair care to large familys, single parents, etc etc Volunteer for free services for the elderly at the Portage County Nursing Home.
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Self Identified Competition
Cost cutters is about 2 miles down my road, which is located in a open walmart atmosphere. Great clips salon. I have 30 years of experience. My salon is a very spacious and relaxing salon with a gas firplace, cathedral ceilings, skylights, a water fall feature. , I was trained in Milwaukee as a color, highlights and correction trainer for other stylist through a Matrix training team. I was also the salon Manager for a chain salons which were called Sigmund and Latze , they lease the salons in Boston stores, J.C. Penneys, Marshal Fields, Macy's and Regis. This management position taught me how to hire, do pay raises. do the payroll. and improve sales in the salon, through work of mouth, hand outs. and Mailing of discounts towards services. I have a much more large and private setting for a guy that perhaps wants hair color and doesnt want everyone seeing him with the color on his head. Private for a sickly or cancer patient with hair thinning. I also assist with temporary or permeant wigless for men and women. I also provide a computer program(app) that show the client with different cuts, colors and length of hair prior to being cut or colored. I also have 4 years of the UWSP for Business Management and Programming. I'm well known through the community and churches. My family have own the Worzella Publishing Company and Worzalla Potatoes, which are both multi million dollar corporations.
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