How I Really Started My Natural Hair Business | Easy Steps For Beginners | Small & Medium Businesses

And this is just me giving some words of encouragement, because i don't know who all got ta hear this okay, but i know it's gon na help, somebody you do not have to have it all figured out. Okay, everybody welcome back to our channel. I am jc if you are new here from just lost jc here, oh whatever, okay, so for those of you guys that do not know if you are new here i am selling hair oils. So i have a small natural hair business, passion, project, um and so i'm selling hair oils on there. So you can see the coffee bean oil that i'm selling it actually helped me in my hair growth journey and it's continuing to help me on the hair growth journey that i'm on now. So if you're interested in the oil definitely go, click the link below, if you're interested in seeing my shopify site, how i've set it up. If that's something that's interesting to you definitely go click the link below so that you can see exactly what i'm talking about. When i am talking about how i started this business, you can see the business firsthand and, if you're interested in oils get you some too. Okay, i do want to also say that i'm going to have an even more detailed video about how i source the products. Don'T worry, i've been working on that video. I'M very excited to share it with you guys um, but just so you know, i do use alibaba.com, it's very similar to aliexpress very similar to amazon ebay. All those stores like that, but don't worry, that video is coming with a detailed video on how you do it, especially for beginners, which is kind of the level that i'm starting on. I will continue to call myself that, because i don't think you ever have it all figured out right, okay, the fasting. I said the first thing you need to know - and this is just me giving some words of encouragement, because i don't know who all got it here. It is okay, but i know it's gon na help. Somebody you do not have to have it all figured out. Okay tip number one, one gem that i could drop in the beginning of this video, how i started my own um, small business. You don't have to have it all figured out. That'S it! That'S all. I feel, like things, feel, a bit overwhelming when you think you have an idea and you're like okay. How am i going to get this or i want to make this business? How am i going to get it off the ground? How am i going to make it as successful as possible? How am i going to do this? How am i going to do that? If i can just tell you if i can't just really tell you, i had no idea, okay, what i was doing at first. No idea, i'm not business savvy. I wouldn't call myself business admin. I did not go to a business school. I haven't really taken any business courses even online, even online, which i would recommend. Okay, after i started, i have been looking into marketing classes and all of those things, but yes, i had not at the start. It was just something that i wanted to do and thank goodness i didn't come with the mindset of feeling like i had to have it all figured out, because you will never have it all figured out. Okay, i'm still doing this business and i still don't got it i'll figure it out. Okay, honey, we're learning as we go. We learn on the job, that's what this is always going to be, and, of course, if you have all those things already, if you have training, if you have, you know an education, if you have a bit more knowledge, if you have a mentor, maybe your parents, That have something that is also very helpful. Obviously, and you want to do research obviously, but don't feel crippled by the fact that you don't have those things, that's basically what i'm trying to get out here. The next point i want to make is about having the idea, so every business, for the most part, is birthed out of somebody's idea, somebody's passion, somebody something and that was very similar to mine. I just had an idea. I had this passion because i was using the product for myself and it really really did help me in a time when i needed help - and i remember how happy i was in feeling the hair growth and having the new growth. When i had had such a setback in my hair, when my hair was breaking off and thinning, i just remember how happy and excited i was to see that growth, and so when i had another setback during the beginning of the pandemic, i thought to myself. Listen. I already know a product that works. Let me use that product to help my hair grow back, and it was from that i was like wait. Other people might be dealing with this, like i've, had two setbacks at this point like i'm, not the only one that has stuff i can need some help. Chad, let me you know what i'm saying. Let me figure this out, so all i had was idea. So when you have a business um for the most part, it's going to be either a business where you're selling some kind of product, or it's going to be a business where you're selling some kind of service. So you need to figure out what exactly you're selling. What exactly your brand is going to be, what exactly your business is going to be centered around now some do both. There are some places where you can sell, or some businesses that specialize in selling an actual product and then there's some that actually specialize in selling a service, let's say, for instance, in the hair realm or in the hair industry, natural hair care. You can have a salon, let's say similar to a diva curl, a diva curl. They not only sell their products, but now they have physical stores where they're selling you a service, something that's intangible for me personally, i do not sell a service. I sell a product. These products right here, meaning that it's something physical, meaning that it's something that you could touch, something that you could use something that you can eat more specifically, a consumable product is what i sell. So that was the first thing and if you are doing that, if you are selling a tangible product, an actual product, not a service, that's when you need to step onto the next step, which is where alibaba.com came in handy for me, because you are selling a Tangible product, you need to first start with getting the tangible materials sourcing, the tangible materials that are going to make this product tangible product, accessible and easy to sell. Now i know i'm selling an oil, that's what i knew. I was selling a hair oil now, how exactly i you can just say: hair oil. Now you put a scoop, bring out your hand, that's cooked in the hand. Now, what exactly am i going to encase this oil in to make it something that can be shipped to make it something that can get to where it needs to get to so someone else can now hold on to this product. So, of course, i was looking immediately for bottles, so that's one of the first things that i was sourcing for my specific, tangible product. Now, of course, you might have a different product. It all depends on what you're selling, but you want to just make it as easy as possible for whatever you're trying to sell to get to whoever you're trying to sell it to in the most concise and together and effective efficient way. And for me, of course, that was a bottle and a bottle in the form of a dropper bottle. Once i had the plan once i had the thing i was gon na sell and then an idea of the vessel that i was going to use to sell this being a bottle. That'S when i started with amazon to be fair. First, i started with amazon.com, went on there and started looking for the bottle options that they had and they had some great bottle options very similar to this, and, of course, you want to be as cost efficient as possible. So of course i've heard of alibaba.com. I went to alibaba.com again very similar to aliexpress.com, went on there put in the to see what kind of bottles they had the sizes they had and i was finding very similar bottles, if not the same exact bottles. But for me, a price range that was more affordable for myself, and so it was because of the price adjustments is because of the price range that i had for this business, this small business that i was just starting that i decided to go with alibaba.com now. Alibaba is amazing, i'm sure so many of you guys have heard about it. Like i'm sure i can't be the first one, that's mentioning it, but it's great because it is perfect. It specializes in sourcing materials for small and medium businesses. Why? Because you can get things in bulk, you can get things in a higher quantity, but not having the cost be too outrageous, because you are communicating and shopping directly with factories in other countries a lot of the time, sometimes in your own country, depending on where you Are, but still it makes it super affordable and it makes it super efficient to get a high volume of um orders in. So the reason that i went with them for my bottles is because of the fact that they had so many different types of bottles. Like i said, i did go to amazon and amazon had some great options, but this for this specific bottle, with the kind of dropper top that i wanted, and i wanted a top that can screw into place so that when i'm shipping it pressure, isn't going to Bust this pressure isn't going to make it open it's going to have a lower percentage of spills, i'm not saying it's impossible, but definitely a way lower percentage than a cap that just squeezes on, and so when i went to alibaba.com i saw that they had so Many different options, not just different options: different sizes, different materials of this bottle different plastic material, different. It was just endless, and why is because they're one of the leading e-commerce sites global ecommerce sites, so they specialize in providing whatever service providing whatever product that you need for your small businesses, and so because of that they specialize in having options baby. They specialize in having options - and that was one of the main main main reasons that i stuck with them, because they have multiple sellers selling similar things. And so you can compare contrast, the prices you can compare to contrasted material and what exactly works best for you. Let me tell you you can find almost everything you need, okay in terms of physical products on there, they have over a hundred thousand suppliers, okay, and they, i think, over 40 at this point different products for different industries that they have they're over 40.. Oh my honey, okay, so you're looking at this bottle and yes, it's the bottle, but then on on top of it, you can see the label. I was able to get the paper that i used to print. Also, there there's so much things that you use for shipping poly, mailers, there's so much that goes into when you have a physical product, not only packaging that product, but then getting it to the people that you need to get it the way you get it there. The shipping labels - all of that goes into it and i was able to find pretty much everything except my printer to be honest on a site. So i'm just saying that one other thing that i have to mention about alibaba.com and one of the reasons that i'm happy that i'm using them is because of the fact that if you have a small business a lot of times, small businesses can end up growing. More than you think they can to kind of medium businesses and alibaba is great for having medium businesses supporting medium businesses, because you can get things involved, which is very important, especially when you have all like customs and all that kind of stuff. Getting the more that you can have in your possession the better, so you don't have to worry about inventory, running low, which i personally love. So once you figure out how exactly you're packaging it, how exactly you're getting your tangelo tangible product to be packaged in a way that it could be sent, then you want to look at where or the medium in which you're going to be selling the products. How you're going to sell them? Now i decided to go with shopify.com. There are so many other there's etsy, there's wix, there's amazon too, to sell your own product on there there's so many different ways that you can sell. I wouldn't recommend any personally because i know a lot of people that have had great success with etsy um and that's a free service, so you don't have to pay, unlike shopify, where you do have to pay um every month. I believe. Hopefully this was helpful, as i said, i'm going to have a step-by-step video coming on how i use alibaba.com to source my products, because this can seem very overwhelming and a lot at first when you look at it, but it's actually quite simple, more simple than even I thought it was at first, so i'm going to be having that coming up and if you have a small business or if you're thinking of a small business idea, i would suggest looking at alibaba.com, i'm going to have the link down below. Just to you know peruse do a little. I can. I can window shopping window shopping uh just to see if they would have anything that you're interested in um and i'll. Show you exactly how to do that in the video coming up. Sorry, that is all that, is it again if you're interested in some hair oils definitely click the link down below. Let me know if this was helpful to you and, if you're interested in seeing other content that i have around small business. Definitely let me know, because i do enjoy doing this as i'm learning. I want to help other people too, so yeah dowsing, that's all make sure you like comment subscribe and i'm gon na see you in my next video, okay, bye, guys