 Welcome back to my channel. Today is a video that you can see from the title. It is a very, very exciting video for me. It is the start of my entrepreneur series here on my channel. I do have a business established now and if you're new here, hey, my name is Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave. So, this is going to be the start of my entrepreneur series on my channel. I am starting my own business. I have started my own business. I do officially have my LLC, so I'm technically a business owner now. Just a little bit of a mini backstory. See me in the same attire, setting, and outfit? It's because, baby girl, I'm getting content done today, okay? So I'm recording multiple videos in one night. So yeah, anyways, I don't know what to start, I'm so excited. Okay, so I started, well like, okay, I decided that I wanted to be my own boss and start my own business in 2020, like a lot of other people when like COVID hit and stuff, but I bought wholesale lashes and I was just going to have like a lash company. But I'm like, after a couple months of stuff, I got to thinking and I did actually create my page and I posted lashes, I sold some lashes, but after a while I kind of just like stopped, like I kind of just didn't like sell anymore. I decided, like I still want to be my own boss, but I'm like, I don't really just want to sell lashes, like I definitely love to wear lashes, obviously. But I'm like, what is the number one thing that you love, like what makes me happy besides like, you know, like doing YouTube videos and stuff, like, because I'm my own boss with this, but I'm like, it's hair. I do hair reviews on my channel, y'all see me do hair reviews, I've been doing hair reviews since, let me see what my first hair review video was actually. Very first ever hair review, this is going to be embarrassing, but it was in my dorm room five years ago. I'm going to link it, but I got to turn down the music because it's going to be copyright. This is my first ever hair review video in my dorm room freshman year at Arkansas Tech University. So freaking cringe, but I posted this literally January 24th, 2007. So I decided that I wanted to sell hair. I am going to be selling raw Vietnamese bundles and mink lashes. Mostly my company is solely about hair, but I do like lashes, so that it's going to be like an added little like luxury or whatever I guess, but yes, so we're going to get into the nitty gritty. This video is going to be obviously the first video that I started of my entrepreneur series, but this video is going to be maybe less exciting than the other ones to come. I say that because this video is going to be solely on the legitimate of the business, like the legal side of the business, the behind the scenes that a lot of people on YouTube do not talk about. When I've been looking for this information, it is not on YouTube. Obviously nothing is given to you for free, but like the basics, I would like to freaking know. So I am in the state of Arkansas, so that's going to be definitely different from where you guys are. If you're not in Arkansas, I do know the selling price in Arkansas is $45 online and 50 through mail for an LLC. I think ours is by far the cheapest that I've seen. I think Texas is like 300, and I was watching this guy form his business, and it was like a hundred and like 20, 130 in the state of Illinois, so yeah, Arkansas, I mean we don't have anything here, so of course ours is going to be cheaper, but yeah. I did want to start off by saying, obviously I don't have a business like an actual shop or anything, so I did have to get an online address. The online address that I have, I do use any time mailbox. I believe what it's called, yeah, any time mailbox. So it's literally an actual place that gives you an address, and then they give you like a box number. So mine would be like 1234 Baker Road, Box 2210, and literally, oh my mail go there. I literally go pick up my mail, I've sent stuff there, I've actually gotten mail from my company there. I did want to show you guys that, I'm going to cross out my address. Actually, I think the address is public information, so honestly it really don't matter if I cross it out. But yes, AJB Beauty Collection, and I literally sent some like mailers there. My dogs want to be up here by me, so yeah, I sent something there to see if it was legit, it's definitely legit, and definitely it's legit. So that was the first thing that I figured I had to do. So I had to get an address to form an LLC because I didn't want to use my home address here because it is public record, anybody can see it. So that's why I didn't use that. So this is horrible lighting because I don't have my stuff on, but I am getting my address notarized. Yeah, it is July 6th right now, so I chose driver's license. I'm going to upload my driver's license. What website am I using? Anytime mailbox, so I'm going to scan in my license. I did that, I used this photo, now the back of my license, and I look at this right now. I've been through hell and hot water trying to get my printer up and running and come to find out that I'm just out of ink. So that's the back of my license. My ID, I'm going in to be notarized. I'll probably put something over the screen. Yes, I can hear you. I'm going to go ahead and start off by verifying your IDs. Can you state your full name and date of birth? Yes. We've returned your complete document to Anytime Mailbox. Check your inbox for an email to access your document. Securely return your signed documents to anyone you'd like. Now let's download these so I can print these out right now. And then I also got the emails right here. And it says any further information is required. We'll let you know if any more. So I'm just going to go click out of there. My stuff is printing. And we got one page, two pages, three and four. My name is Abby. And I got my address. So these are all my legal docs. It's really happening. Next, after getting the address, I went to the Secretary of State for Arkansas. And I was going to do, I was going to fill it out myself, but it kind of got confusing. Like I didn't know who I wanted for it. Like I didn't know who I wanted to put down for a registered agent. I didn't know, like I just didn't know. So I used Zen business. This is not sponsored whatsoever. I will put in clips of me actually creating my account and actually creating, you know, signing up to get my LLC. I documented all of this. I did it now and come back to Zen business. I decided to go with them to create my LLC. I could have did it myself, but I feel like having this, I just want something to do it for me because I really, you know, it's not really sure what I'm doing with all of this legal stuff. So right here, I do know this though. Your EIN number, employee ID number, they're charging $70 to do it for you. You can go to IRS.com and get this done for free. So it's just crazy because it's like, they really charge you $70 out here for something you can do for free. But yeah, I just want people to say that. I'm following this guy work from home journey. He's doing his LLC list in 12 minutes. And literally that's what I'm doing. So no, I don't want them to do my EIN for me. I can do that myself. Would you like to add worry free compliance for $10 a month? Let us help with state compliance and ongoing filing. So you stay in good standing with the state throughout the year. I kind of want to do this. Let me see. Let me do tell me more. Secure your business don't name. Yeah. So the domain name, they're trying to charge $25 a year. The domain shouldn't be over $15. I've seen some for two, five, 10, whatever the case may be. So no, I'm actually going to be using Shopify as my seller, I guess, website. So I already have a Shopify account. So I can just buy the domain from Shopify or I can go to GoDaddy. Create a custom website. Like I said, I'm going to use Shopify. Shopify already has templates and layouts available for me. So I'm going to say no. Why would I pay $100 for that? What would you like your business name to be? I do not need to add LLC to it. AJ, well, can I get all caps? AJB, beauty collection. Oops. CL, E, C, T, I, O. What to do next? Let's confirm your information. Does this look correct? We're going to send this to the state. So make sure that your name exactly matches your government issued ID. Name's AJB beauty collection, entity type, Arkansas. Members can be added after purchased. Okay, account information. That's me. Click chat at the bottom of the page with us. Estimated Formation Day is August 1st. That's my birthday. If you complete your order within the next 46 hours, 48 minutes and 52 seconds, I will have it on my birthday or by my birthday. That's perfect. I wanted my LLC before my birthday. Note that the filing times can vary. So today's total is $84. Did you know the information cost can be tax deductible? The IRS often allows business owners to deduct up to $5,000 in startup costs in the tax year to be so good. Cool. Today I owe $84. Next year I will be paying $119. I'm on somebody's 20% off coupon link. Before this, I would have been paying $199 a year. And then this would have been $96. So I will put my referral code down if you want to use my referral code. And then it will be around the same price depending on your state's filing costs. My state's filing cost is really cheap. It's only $45. I know some states, I think someone said it takes us to like $300. I don't know. It's crazy. But I can pay $84 today and then next year it'll be dead. So I'm going to take a quick picture of this Did You Know information just so I can have that. You know? Okay. Thank you. Let's keep the ball rolling. I finished my formation. Next up, let's get things done. Here's your next goal. Task one, finish your information. You need to finish your information before you can start your business. Take about five minutes. Okay. What company indicator do you want to use? You're required by law to add a company indicator to your business name. It does not matter which option you choose. So pick the one you like best. Oh, okay. We're going to do LLC. I like the way that looks better rather than L.L.C. And I for dang sure am about to type it all out like that. So we're going to do A.J.B. Beauty Collection L.L.C. If your business name is taken, what other names would you like? It's not taken. I've already looked them up and I'm about to buy my domain and stuff. Hopefully today or tomorrow. So we're going to skip that. What does your business do? We need three. Two to three sentences to help us understand what your business is all about. So I'm going to type this in real quickly. Okay. So next I got to enter my business address. I actually have a virtual business. So what's this? Okay. So I'm about to look into like trademarks and stuff like that. Also, like just all the behind the scenes stuff. So I would get back to y'all once, once this come back and I'm going to update y'all. But I'm actually about to co-wash this bundle of hair so I can see how it looks after co-washing because I am going to offer co-washing for my bundles. And after co-washing, I think I'm going to actually bleach a little bitty piece of it to see if it can hold bleach and how light it can lift. So after doing the Zen business thing, I do have a referral code though. I use somebody referral code to sign up. It saved me like $25, I think. And then you get like a $25 Amazon gift card or something like that. So I put my code down below if you want to use Zen business. Zen business was just something that I use because this is my business. It's something that I'm trying to have for the rest of my life. Like this has my name on it. I didn't want to do anything by myself and basically fuck up something, you know? So a lot of people is telling me stuff. I only know two people personally that have their LLC. And I mean, I didn't really get much information from them honestly. So I just decided to put in Zen business hands. I did the very basic one and literally just let them handle everything. I did do the basic one because they're trying to charge I think like $300 for like the all inclusive package because they're going to do like your EIN for you. They're going to fill your LLC, get your registered agent, yada, yada, baby. Your EIN is free on IRS.com website or IRS.gov website. So I literally did my EIN after getting my LLC. After my Zen business, after I did all of that and I paid, I think I paid like $82 or something at the time. It'll be on the screen. I'm not quite sure what I paid. So yeah, I do have a certified registered agent. He is, I think the city is about like an hour away from me or whatever. So I did want to go ahead and get like a registered agent because like I said, this is my first time ever doing something like this. My parents, they don't own businesses, nothing like that. So I don't really have any knowledge from outside rather than what I get from Google and other videos. Like I don't have any one-on-one advice given to me. So I did want to have a professional on my team. It's not bad to ask for help. It's not bad to have somebody else to know that knows how to do something, helping you out. So that's why I don't care to hire people to do stuff. So I am paying for a registered agent every year through Zen business. I am glad that it is through Zen business because Zen business, the actual website and stuff, once you get on there, they actually inform you about a lot of stuff. So I am glad I went ahead and did it through Zen business. So my business, it got accepted. When did it get accepted? Excuse me. July 14th is when it got accepted. He signed it on the 11th. So literally it only took, after Zen business sent it to him, I think it took him maybe like a day and a half, maybe two days to sign this. I mean, I'm in Arkansas. He don't got much work to do here, honey. Let's be real. So it got signed within like two days and I got it back on the 14th. So it was filed in office on the 11th. And then if you guys follow me and follow my business page, I will put it right here. Then you guys saw me post about this on my Instagram. Literally, there it is. Yes, ma'am, we're official. AJB Beauty Collection LLC. That is the name of my company, and here at Jenae Baker. It's my name, my initials. Beauty Collection. So after I did go ahead and submit my stuff to Zen business before I actually got it back as accepted. I did go ahead and go file for my EIN number on the IRS website. I do have it printed out. Getting your EIN is super fast. I think the whole process took me like five minutes to fill out. So obviously not going to show you this. I'm not sure EIN is public information or not. But it literally just says thank you for applying for the employee identification number, EIN. We assigned you EIN. This EIN will identify you, your business accounts, tax returns and documents. Even if you have no employees, please keep this notice in your records. This is what I have to give to the bank and stuff like that to get a business bank account. I am going to frame this. Since I did file online, I have to print it out. If I would have filed by mail, then they would have sent this back to me. But it was kind of like they sent me a link and then I'll just download this from the link. So that's that. The other things that I did behind the scenes is I went ahead and got my, I don't know if it's pronounced dunes or dunes number. I think dunes number. Don't quote me. A little check off list that I have. So I got my LLC EIN, dunes number. I have been had a business email. I do have a business address and I do have a business phone number. The other things that I do need to still get is my domain name and I need to buy my Shopify. I think I'm about to do that this weekend and then I need to trademark my stuff. I'm about to trademark my stuff because if y'all saw that one girl on TikTok who somebody stole her stuff and she been fighting this battle for two years, yeah, no. And then I'm going to open a business bank account and then I'm going to do a big photo shoot and then I'm going to start working on my website. I'm going to go ahead and buy my website and stuff and like Shopify is just, I'm not going to actually put anything on it until I start taking official pictures with the photographer. So I am right now working on my net 30 accounts for business credit. I do have five different accounts that I'm going to apply for once I do open up my business bank account. I am going to probably bring y'all along with me. I don't know if I want to do regions or Chase. Those are my top two because of where I live. So regions is who I bank with now. I know regions in and out. So it'll be easy for me to do different kind of transfers and I mean like I said, I just know regions. I've been with regions for like four years. Chase because Chase is in I think like 43 states. I think Google said and you know if I do decide to move, if I do travel, this and that Chase is everywhere. I have I think like four or five Chase banks here in Arkansas but I think they're literally in like central Arkansas. So all the Chase banks are within like 10, 15 minutes away from me and then they're all throughout the U.S. The thing with regions is regions is like a southern bank. So it's in like, I believe it's in Texas, Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri I think. It's in like the like Georgia. It's like down south. Okay. So my mom just called me. I don't know where I left off but I think I was talking about banks. So Chase banks is more global rather than regions. So I'm still kind of like neck and neck about that but I did want to add in I started to buy samples. So my first sample I received July 7th at like 430. This is the sample of the first one. I knew I wanted to sell raw hair. Raw hair is the best hair that you can wear or receive or whatever the case may be. I didn't want anything other than raw hair. I didn't want virgin hair. Like I don't want anything that's been processed. Nothing I wanted. I wanted it chopped right off the head shampoo condition whatever and then sent to me. So this one is from I can't remember where I got this from. I think like something like I queen or something like that. I don't know. This one was their raw hair but it was their I can't remember what they called it. It was something stupid. I still have the sample but I don't know where I put it. It may still be in my car. I tried to send it back to them because it is not what I wanted but sending the hair back would have cost more than the actual sample. I think the sample with shipping and stuff was only like $70. Sending this one bundle back was going to be $130. So I'm like fuck y'all. No. And they're like you got to pay for shipping. We can't pay. I don't want to work with anybody like that anyway. So if I can find the bundle I'll probably add in another clip but I So I'm looking at absolute mess right now. I just woke up but I just got my package in the mail. This is going to be like the beginning of my little entrepreneur blogs. We're going to be documenting. So this is my first ever like sample of hair. They shipped it out Saturday and it is now Tuesday evening and I got it. So I'm going to just be opening it. I am recording up my phone. So this is it. I want a bleaching and stuff like that. Probably Friday but I just wanted to feel it. I don't know. It's supposed to be 100% raw Indian hair. It's the wavy one but I don't know because on some of the other like pages and stuff their hair looks really like really unprocessed. You know what I mean? And I'm getting I just got a piece of hair got another piece of hair. I see some fillers I think it's like those little gray looking pieces like I don't know if you can see but I see fillers. So I don't know about this one. It just doesn't look like raw hair to me. I don't know. It seems like it's been I want mine to be like unsteamed and everything like straight off the head. But I did record a little bit of I did record a clip on my phone so I'll insert that. But yeah. I didn't like it because for one I wanted raw hair. This hair had silver and red fillers. Any hair that has a filler is not raw hair. And that kind of makes it way more. And that's not what I wanted. So yeah. This one had red and like silver white fillers I don't I don't want it. So that's why I didn't go with that wholesale supplier. And then my next one that I found was a raw Vietnamese vendor. This is the bundle. This is after it's been washed and shampooed and conditioned. This one is the bundle that I'm going to like install on my head to wear once I buy some more because I've been playing with it and running my fingers through it or whatever. But this is the bundle. I've had it for like a month and a half now. So the West are super thick. Literally thick from top to bottom. Ends look really good. So yeah. I'm super excited about this. It is so flowy. I am going to offer hair that's been co-washed. So every bundle that you get is going to be washed by me. And yeah. This is the sample that I decided to go with. Super cute. Super flowy. Like I cannot wait to get this installed. Okay. So I'm trying to think what else because all this stuff has just been happening like over the past two months and I've kind of just been doing everything kind of at once. So it's a lot to talk about. I wanted to talk about next my logo. So this is the logo that I made myself on Canva. This is what I was going to go with. It's literally AJB Beauty Collection. And my colors are neutral colors of like browns and tins. And I added black. So this was my very first post. But I took this off because I actually paid somebody to create my logo. It's literally the same concept. It's just a little bit more jazzed up. Oh. I'll put it right here. So yeah. I paid how much did I pay for the logo? $70. This lady was high. I would say. Like I didn't want to say hi. I mean she did wonderful work. But I did find somebody that's cheaper. I will say that because $70. I feel like it was worth $70 because it was damn sure better than what I did or could have done. So I give her her props. Good. I'm not sure if she is in the US or not. I think she may be like from China or something. But that's besides the point. So I paid her to do my logo. If you want to know who did it, you can go to my Instagram page on my business account and check it out. I really forgot her name. But you can go check out my business page. I tagged her. So yeah. I did find another girl to do my flyers. So basically like my flyers that's going to say website loading. It's going to say like restock alert. Your orders have shipped. Those type of flyers. I did find somebody. I think she's local and her prices are very, very reasonable. And she does wonderful work. So I'm excited to see what she does for me. I don't actually have those right now. But hopefully by the time this video goes out I will be able to insert them for you. So yeah. I've just been screenshotting a lot of inspo pics of hair photo shoots. So that's the next thing that I am going to try to focus on after I finished my business checklist. Like once I get my trademark I buy my domain name and my doing business as once I buy that. So yeah. I think that's already the updates that I have for you guys right now. Like I found my vendor. Her. I found my vendor. I believe I found my own like graphic designer. I really love her work. Like I said, I'm excited to see what she sends over to me. I have my logo. All of the legal stuff is damn there taken care of. So now the only thing really left to do is photo shoot buying inventory. I'm going to buy satin bag. I found this person on Etsy. And this is how I want my bags to look. I probably inside the picture. But I want them to be like that cream white color. And then the little tassel like the little drawstring part will be brown. Like a nude brown or tan, whatever you want to call it. I think that'll be so cute and like definitely right on brand for my brand. So I'm super excited about that. There's two guys that I'm looking into going to for a photo shoot. That's here local in Little Rock. Yeah, I don't want to get too much away, but I have some new lash box that I'm going to buy. Like I'm very, very excited. This is, it's feeling more tangible now. So I cannot wait. As far as the launch date, I don't want to rush anything. I'm a person that believes in God's timing. Like I feel like that's why I decided to put it on hold in 2020 because I am now in a place in my life to where I have my dream apartment. I got my dream car as of right now. So I'm living life right now. So I do know I do not want to stay at this hospital for the rest of my life. So starting this business was definitely something that was meant to happen right now. Like I said, everything's God timing. I do, I did plan to launch like right before Valentine's Day. I know it's definitely going to be next year at this point because I'm just about to start by inventory in September, October, November. I want to make sure everything's good. So I did want to have everything ready by Black Friday, but I don't think that's going to be reasonable. Honestly, because you know, everything can be perfect, but I do want to have all my ducks in a row. So definitely the beginning of next year, January, February, it's not going to go past February. So keep that in mind. I'm super excited. Thank you guys for watching my first video of my entrepreneur series. Comment down below if you have a business or something that you're starting, something that you're thinking of. You can comment down below questions. I will try to answer as much as I can if I didn't cover something in this video. But into my next video, my next video will probably be me getting inventory in and like showing packaging and stuff like that. Like I do have mailers in there. We'll get to all that stuff later. And then once I actually start doing my business credit, I am going to do a huge like business haul of like all the stuff that I bought for my business to run it from home right now. So yeah, don't forget to like this video, comment and subscribe and into my next video girl. I will see you then. Bye y'all.