How I tripled my business in a year

Dreadlocks specialist Hadad Tondo at his workplace [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

Hadad Tondo, owner of Locked by Hadad, a hair salon that deals in temporary locks always knew that entrepreneurship was for him. But while some business owners have the opportunity to come up with a business idea and mull it over before finally taking the plunge, Hadad’s path was different. He got fired in just two weeks of working in a salon where he had planned to hone his skills. Faced with unemployment, he used up his savings to pay for a working station in another salon and as time went by, his clientele increased. “I became obsessed with saving money and after obsessive saving for a year, I had enough money to venture out on my own. My starting capital was Sh600,000 but I kept reinvesting in the business, something I still do,” Hadad says. In 2018, he opened up his centre that could sit 10 clients in Nairobi’s Highway Mall. 

In just a year you managed to move from a space that sits 10 clients to a much bigger one that sits 30. What do you attribute this growth to?