Salon Builder Articles

5 Reasons you should sign up for credit rating agencies… Late payments, CCJs, red letters, and final demands, we’ve all had them and quite frankly it is a pain to have unpaid bills in salon business, especially if you need anything that is subject to credit checks…   raising new finance for business, or renting new property for salon… however (unless you are the one with clean credit record – in which case congratulations for becoming money smart), it’s not all bad and even if you are still afraid of the postman, you can still take control over your credit history and watch it improve right in front of your eyes, ...

Ask a person these days what they could not live without, in fact 9 times out of 10 people would say their mobile phone. This truth came to light when 02’s service was down in the UK a day or 2 ago, it seemed like the world had ended according to the distress. A society so dependant on technology. Its scary but this is were the potential lies too. Most people wont leave their house without their mobile phone, but what does that mean for you as a salon owner? Well just think about the number of text messages people send and receive daily, your estimate would probably be of point. It is though that the number excee ...

Lesson from the Coffee Shop Each day half way through a 90-minute walk we stop at a coffee shop that is new and much needed in the English village we live in. I’m new to coffee but my partner Tamara is a coffee expert with a taste for good, bad and ugly coffee. This coffee shop is cute, village like with a city feel, we love it and go sometimes twice daily. Inside the shop there are two brothers and another partner all of them are really great. When you walk into the shop they smile, welcome you like friends, sit you down and deliver great service. Now Tamara might be a coffee expert but after 17 years in the fro ...

… Because Most Of Them HATE YOU! This one really drives me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do so many salon owners let let their stylists dictate their pay? Here’s you Mr/Mrs salon owner trying to be fair and nice. You have all the stress of running a salon, looking after budgets paying the rent. All your stylists want is more and more and more! They DON’T CARE! Now listen this has got to stop!! Its simple you only have 3 things to think about MONEY IN MONEY OUT PROFIT (and lots of it) Unless you have those 3 things you cannot run a mega-successful salon that wipes the floor in your town. Obvious? yep you bet but if you ...

Your salon phone rings. You are busy yet the person that answers the phone comes over to you and says … “Alan, it’s Yellow Pages, they need to talk now” Although you’re bombed out, you quickly run to the phone. The guy from Yellow Pages says to you … “Hi Alan, your Yellow Page advert has to be in by Friday at the latest, I’ll pick it up then” You go back to your client and although you do your best with your client your now thinking about this. Do I do my Yellow Page advert this time, it never seems to work for me? If I don’t do it the other local salons will do it and I’ll miss out and look bad. I don’t have any ...

… Right Now! Some stylists need to be taken to the front of the salon. You should then get their tools. Throw the out on the street and then … kick their backside off the premises! Be honest you’d love to do that right … RIGHT! Why is it we all have stylists that are more than happy to sit around all do and do nothing? Here’s the deal. Let’s call her Helen as I had one of these losers once called Helen. How come she never has a last client booked in. How come her boyfriend always turns up knowing he doesn’t have a last stylist in? How come she never has a client booked in around lunch time? How come they always ...