Salon Builder Articles

If your hairdressers’ chairs is in the UK, as from October the 1st (today) VAT will now be levied on… and the minimum wage rate has increased from £6.08 to £6.19 an hour, BBC announced today What does it mean to you and your hairdressing business?… apart from making sure more cash is set aside for higher taxes… is it all bad, or can you actually find a way to turn every average Saturday a crazy profits Saturday in salon? Here’s some 20 years of running salon experience wisdom from Alan Forrest Smith how… When I had my salons I loved Saturday Why? We used to do something a little crazy and  totally off-the-wall. L ...

A successful salon business involves more than just good haircut One would argue that the past few decades have been a golden age for beauty salons. With the arrival of names like The great late Sassoon, a whole new generation of hair and beauty salons have started to emerge, offering the most extraordinary haircuts, and attracting the most exceptional customer base. Celebrity hairdressers have certainly received most of the credit for such revolution. But do great hairdressers make great salon owners? Apparently not. Salon atmosphere, design, display, location, savvy salon marketing and salon management matter, ...

Can a Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso teach you about attracting attention to your salon business?  Picasso is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He was complicated and undeniably controversial. He is mostly about attention grabbing and relished in his controversial character: a womanizer and genius who was both loved and hated but as a painter few can touch what he’s managed to accomplish. Within life as shallow as it may seem everything is judged by appearances, what is not seen by the eye counts for nothing. So it’s a good idea to never let your salon get lost in the crowd. It’ ...

This one is a no-brainer. When you get to your salon tomorrow morning get a white board or sheet of paper (big of course) and write this … Stick that at the front of the salon and next to every stylist station. Brief the team on what to do, price etc. Make it fast, simple and easy for everyone. Don’t tie your stylist up doing this. Even Saturday workers can apply a simple quasi or semi color right? I promise you this … at least 50% of your clients will have it. For max effect make it an event. Music, drinks, just beef the whole thing up and create a party atmosphere. And by the way … I have tried and tested this ...

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A book that has seen women frantically trailing up and down supermarkets just so they get their hands on it. Yes Fifty Shades of Grey is a trilogy that has become the fastest selling novel for adults of all time. But why have millions of women been seduced by Fifty Shades of Grey? And what can this best selling novel teach you about getting more salon customers through your salon door? To save you the time of reading the book if you already haven’t, plus the embarrassing blushes from its adult content here is a short cut of a tale of a literature student Anastasia Steele that becomes infatuated and drawn into the ...