NutritionHQ.

How I Started An $80K/Month Vitamins And Supplements Business And Franchising

April 24th, 2021

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Ricky Hall

Founder, NutritionHQ.

$80K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

NutritionHQ.

nhq.rocks

from St. Louis, MO

started January 2015

$80,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi, my name is Ricky Hall, the founder of NutritionHQ and NutritionHQ Franchising. I opened my first nutrition store in February of 2000 as a GNC franchise in a small Northeast Missouri town. The town was Kirksville Missouri and the home of Truman State University. I worked the store open to close for the first five months until I hired my first employee was a Truman State student and soccer player majoring in Exercise Science.

It took me 3 plus years to get the business profitable and at that point, I sold 30% to a friend/business partner so we could start expanding. There were a lot of franchisees struggling in the St. Louis MO market. Tim and I partnered to buy failing stores, implement our business model to make these stores once again successful.

At one point we owned four St. Louis locations and one Tucson AZ location. Tim was from Tucson, we planned to expand the same business model to the Arizona market.

In late 2009 I listed the St. Louis stores for sale as I was ready for a change in the Nutrition retail environment. The stores sold in early 2010, Tim purchased my interest in the Tucson AZ store and I was off to the next...

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