Urban Betty

How I Went From Hairstylist To Running My Own $3.3M Salon Business

August 18th, 2019
Chelle Neff
Founder, Urban Betty
$550K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
81
Employees
Urban Betty
from Austin, Texas, USA
started January 2005
$550,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
81
Employees
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi, I’m Chelle Neff and I’m the founder of Urban Betty.

After five years of being in my own salon suite, I took the leap in 2005 and opened my own brick and mortar. I had one contractor that worked for me in a space that housed over 10 hair stations.

After 6 months, I had my first employee. Six years later, I had about thirteen people working inside the salon company (half employees, half contractors).

We then moved into a space that was double the size and after a few months, I phased out my contractors and evolved into an all commission-based employee salon company.

Now, eight years later, we have two locations with over 50 employees.

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What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

I was led to this career path as a business owner from my sheer motivation to do...

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