Salon insurance - hair salon insurance or beauty salon insurance - whether you are just opening your first hair or beauty salon, or if you’re already an established salon you know you can’t go without - deep breath - insurance. I know it sounds like a dirty word (and about as attractive as paying taxes) [...]
Published November 5, 2009 – 4:00 pm
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Do You Struggle with No Shows?
For any salon owner a ‘no show’ can be really debilitating. After all, that hour slot that you thought was filled and is now empty will now never be turned into cash. It is lost, forever.
But how can you make sure that this doesn’t happen to you? Luckily a [...]
Published November 3, 2009 – 1:25 pm
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Encouraging signs if you want to market your health and beauty business through the recession, especially if you are promoting retail beauty products. CosmeticsDesign-Europe wrote last week about a new report from “Research and Markets” -
“The UK health and beauty market is set to grow by 2.7 per cent in 2009, despite the fact that [...]
Published July 20, 2009 – 11:34 am
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Aura Mae over at “Advice for Small Salons” pulished a great article last week on “How to keep your employees from wanting to kill you”. Which is a topic close to many salon owners’ heart! Check it out, by clicking here
Some of her tips include (brief excerpts, read the full story on her blog) -
1. [...]
Published June 29, 2009 – 10:39 am
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Apologies for the lack of updates on this site recently. We’ve been very busy building new salon websites for our customers. That’s the way it goes sometimes - you’re so busy working on other people’s websites that you don’t have time to update your own website!
The good news is that after 18 months of research [...]
Published May 28, 2009 – 2:42 pm
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Do you have a website for your salon? Is it making your phone ring every day with eager potential customers? When local people search for services like yours, is your website in the top 5 results on the first page of Google? If not, then this free Teleseminar is for you!
On Monday 6th April, 2pm [...]
Published March 27, 2009 – 2:32 pm
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One way to improve your salon marketing during the recession is to look for products and services that are, relatively, recession-proof. Talking to our customers regularly, we’ve noticed that those who sell the more “high end” services, like anti-aging, seem to be much less affected by the credit crunch or recession.
Along similar lines, CosmeticsDesign-Europe recently [...]
Published March 16, 2009 – 5:17 pm
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Do you send out a newsletter every month to your salon customer list? Or a regular mailing to your clients with your latest salon promotion or current offer? If not, it’s one of the things you’ll learn from the Salon Marketing Toolkit. If you are in the UK, we’ve recently found a service that could [...]
Published February 24, 2009 – 10:41 am
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More recession beating tips and ideas for small businesses, this time from the UK’s Daily Telegraph Business section (though they’re equally applicable for salon owners in any country). We’ve included a brief extract below, click here to read the full article - “Nine Top Tips from Recession Survivors”
Mobile phone firm O2 has quizzed some of [...]
Published February 16, 2009 – 12:19 pm
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We’ve previously recommended US salon owner Aura Mae’s excellent Small Salons blog as a great read for salon owners. Last week she published some useful marketing strategy tips for hair salons or beauty salons looking to improve their marketing during the recession - “Recession Busting Strategies”. Click here to read the full article. An excerpt [...]
Published February 16, 2009 – 11:49 am
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