Venetia with her advice for entrepreneurs...
“To love what they do. It has been proven that people who are beauty or massage therapists are the happiest in their job. I can verify that, and I think it’s because you end up making people feel good and you end up feeling good.
“Do it with passion and expect a lot of hard work and not to expect immediate returns. And just to keep going at it.”
On setting up a business in a recession...
“I set up the business in the middle of the credit crunch. I don’t have any experience of what it’s like to run a business in a good economy. So it can only get easier – if it’s been growing in the middle of a recession then I feel very optimistic about the future. And that’s another bit of advice: to always stay optimistic.”
On the most useful career she's had in terms of transferable skills...
“I would say photography, when I was doing photography I was self-employed. The sales part I found difficult. But I did learn a lot, and I’ve transferred those skills. And I don’t know where the skills have come from that I got.
“I didn’t want to run my own business, and when I was running my photography business I wanted to get someone else to run it for me. But when I did my massage course, my case studies became my clients and it just took off organically.”
