"Running" A Nail Salon?

Run it as an add-on to your home, and place an ad for roommates. You'll have potential customers in no time. If you host a roommate per week or so, they might bring friends and significant others by, which adds to the client list.

A retail lot is nice if you want to make some extra money on the side, but it'd take up the time you could use to just pull people in for their mani-pedis, and whilst you're doing them, customers would just get angry and leave, or buy things and leave (if you had help).

If you're doing it out of a community venue, perhaps making friends with the clients you pull in would help. Sometimes they'll invite you to their places and you can meet their families (for potential customers).

That's just the tip of the iceberg. What packs do you have?

There should also be an option on your phone to promote it with Simstagram. It came in the update.

i like the idea and i guess i'll try it with a retail lot and test if it'd work ?

If you aren't opposed to mods, I made a spa, but I used a mod that is a lot trait called entrance fee. So my sims pay to enter the place and then pay extra for services. And when I take my own sims there, they also have to pay.

https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175406538553/entrance-fee-on-community-lots-custom-lot-trait

I was thinking along the same lines. Would like to make a Salon. I like some ideas above. On a retail lot you could just hire employies to take care of sales, and sale beauty items that make sense for a salon. Then your Sim could tend the chair. Also I have the lot entrance fee mod as well, so I intend to use that for my Spa anyway cause what spa has free services? I use that for gyms and a theme park as well.

Grrr, As a new member am I not allowed to edit my comments? I noticed my typo immediately.