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Help me expand my local, small business!

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HI! My name is Sara and I'm opening a spa! I'm talking a spa with an upscale, resort style feel and affordable, competitive prices. A place for relaxation and renewal, without the hustle and bustle of a hair salon, yet with clinical results you would expect from your skin care treatments and massage sessions. A spa with great energy, a spot you walk into and feel comfortable and welcome; a place you will come visit again and again. I have worked very hard for the past 2 1/2 years and my business has grown impressively. As the sole practitioner, I maintain a client contact list of 300+ and have more than doubled my revenue in 2013 from 2012.
Currently, I operate out of a single treatment room inside of a hair salon. While I get many compliments about this room being 'cute & cozy', it also serves as my storage, my retail, my front desk and my office.
It's time to grow!!
A donation from you would help me promote my new business by creating post cards and flyers to pass out all over town. It would help buy massage tables, towels & sheets, spa robes & slippers. It would help purchase the special *top secret, I can't give it all away!* items I will use to decorate to make the space unlike any other similar business in the area. I will purchase a washer & dryer, retail shelves, new flooring and lighting.
Please help a young, hard working, ambitious, entrepreneur (ME!) make her dream come true!

Here is a little about my professional journey--
In 2005, I received my cosmetology license from the State of Michigan after completing 1500 hours of training at the Douglas J Aveda Institute in East Lansing. In the early years of my career in the beauty industry, I focused on hair and dreamed of owning my own salon. I became an Aveda Color Coach, attending multiple advanced education classes, working backstage at a New York Fashion Week show, and completing a hair color course at the Vidal Sassoon in London, UK. In 2009, I accepted a position at the Lilac Tree Spa on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Thinking it would be a fun way to spend the summer, I switched gears from the hair world, to that of mostly skin care and nail treatments. It wasn't long before I absolutely fell in LOVE with the product line I was using, Eminence Organic Skin Care and the treatments I was offering. After a few consecutive summers on Mackinac, I decided to come home, to the Kalamazoo area, and offer my services here. The rest is history :-)

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Sara Arundel
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Portage, MI

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