Salon Builder Articles

Even in times of rising unemployment, employers face a skills shortage—a mismatch between available employees and the skills needed to be employees and managers. In fact number one challenge for salon owners are how to stop stylists from leaving jobs. In an effort to head-off skills deficiencies, many business communities have formed partnerships with educational systems with the goal of helping students become more responsive to real world demands. Are these efforts enough? Evidently not, according to a survey conducted among 100 businesses and state and federal agencies in the Southeast. However, the people I s ...

…and win a salon competition challenge Did you know that Beauty Salon business is ‘Googled’ 20 million times a month in the UK, considering the selection is so vast and time is so short, it’s important to stand out. Just see if you can take a few moments to examine your salon through the eyes of your salon clients. Try to see the benefits that you can offer, best off all try to see what benefits are not offered by those you compete with. You only need one good one. Here are some good features you can work on in the meantime: Your Salon Website It’s all about location, location, location … Why? Because 70% of wome ...

Hi, Head Punk Alan here. Here’s 3 things you can do right now so you can count more pennies at the end of the week. Don’t do them …and your crazy! Okay here they are. 1. Review your pricing Nooooooo not pricing!!! And why not. It’s weird, in our business we continually have an in-built fear of “what will the clients think” … or even worse … “what will that terror client … Mrs. Jones … say about it?” Look this is business, this is your business. Your business might not just be supporting you but supporting family also! So this is your life. When is the last time you increased prices? Who really cares what one sing ...

Step One Think about the result you want from your change in your salon. Sounds obvious but all the of the jigsaw needs to make sense if you are to get the team commitment and corporation. But no need for you to explain your reasons for changing. My philosophy is this. If you have staff that don’t and wont change with you at the first chance kick em out! Step Two You have to change your approach or behaviour in order to change the behaviour in others CONSISTENTLY! For example if you want all clients to have a consultation before their hair is washed then you have to do it each and every time or it will be death t ...

…Don’t stay behind…lead your salon customers where the public goes I am sure you have heard the saying that a picture can speak a thousand words? But just what level of truth is behind this and how can this be of benefit to your salon brand you might ask? It all started by the invention of  … Instagram. Instagram is now giving  salon owners the ability to share and promote their salon businesses. More so than ever people enjoy the feeling of being a little artistic on social networking sites, people enjoy taking photographs, they enjoy having them uploaded so that people can see and comment. It’s an ego boost and ...

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