From Home Based Business To Franchise

It started as a home based business move to a storefront and is becoming a franchise! Here’s Tracy Ahern’s story.

From Stuff.co.nz

Tracy Ahern’s decision to close her home-based beauty therapy salon and open a store at Westfield Riccarton is proving worth the risk.

The Christchurch woman is now franchising her All About You business, after opening a second clinic at The Palms two years ago and one in Auckland.

“We’ve just had an offer on our Palms store and as we sell one franchise we will focus on the next one, hopefully that will be in Wellington.”

Ahern plans to sell one franchise a year, and wants to have a clinic in most of New Zealand’s big cities.

Some years ago Ahern owned a salon at the Elmwood Shopping Centre and sold it to spend more time with her four children. She established a small salon at home but that gradually got bigger. She employed staff and the neighbours started complaining about all the cars coming and going at her home.

Image courtesy Stuff.co.nz & Tracy Ahern