Salon Builder Articles

In Recent years, according to Probeauty.org Salon industry sales in the USA alone has exceeded 40 billion USDs, and at it’s peak the sector has been growing with a healthy rate of 116%!  (figures are combined number of salon establishments with payroll employees and non-employer salon establishments). But as the world economy continues to deepen into the recession, can salon industry players and indeed salon owners afford to rely on just promising statistical figures and in city office cubicles conducted analytical forecasts, or as Alan Forrest Smith quotes can “sit on your back side salon marketing” really work? ...

If you were the vice-president of marketing for a bank, (or any organization for that matter), you would probably want to poll your customers from time to time to determine why they chose to do business with your bank. We can always assume why our customers do business with us but this can be risky because we may be wrong. What we think we are providing may be opposite to what customers perceive they are receiving. A good question then to ask our customers would be, “How do you know when we are doing a good job for you?”. The answers we receive will probably be all over the lot. Maybe customers think we are doing ...

When I went from 250 square feet to 2000 square foot salon I honestly thought I had it made. I had opened my first salon. In the salon there was me, Kerry and sue that worked just 2 days a week so really 2.5 stylists. I did almost everything but from the start we were very busy. The salon was in a small mall and the shop itself was tiny. Not long after we opened though we had a huge problem, the salon was simply far too busy. Word had spread in the small village really fast that we were good and deliver great work. Without doing anything the salon was packed. In fact it got so busy we had to make clients wait out ...

What do you really want out of beauty salon business? A bigger, more profitable salon? new salon clients? Cash in till, more free time and better salon management? All of the above? Salon Punk can help you get there. Our salon experts offer instights on salon marketing, beauty salon business and management, led by Alan Forrest Smith, a salon expert of over 27 years. In recent years our clients discovered: 54% up salon profits One idea has made one salon owner alone £74,000 in his hair salon business. Another salon owner created a letter with the ideas that generated just over $11,000 Another salon owner recovere ...

This is a salon business story shared by one of our salon customers, we think it’s inspiring and interesting to share, enjoy! My name is Kelly….my salon ..is Flames Hairzone 111a Felixstowe Road Ipswich SuffolkIip3 8ea How i got started.. Well i was only 20 and already had turned a men’s only barbers salon in to a unisex salon, me being a unisex hairstylist the condition to taking the job on was to still do lady’s …I built up a massive clientele just on recommendation alone. Time came to leave as i was being paid less than a barber who was higherd after me to do the clientele which already existed there, so i mov ...

You already know how to run a salon business, but could you easily run a marathon? How about bike 44km, or perform the 100m butterfly that saw Michael Phelps win his 17th Gold Olympic medal? Now imagine that, with all eyes on you, all eyes watching, all eyes expecting. It is every four years that the Olympics games happen. These events include the World’s finest athletes, it is not for the light hearted, these individuals have spent hours upon hours working on their craft, where they excel is in a sickening work ethic. While most are relaxing there working, while the other is sleeping there working. But it’s this ...