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Getting Your Salon Started on Pinterest

From an early age children build scrapbooks of memories. By the teenage years, that scrap-booking passion may have converted into a passion for keeping a diary of your thoughts, ideas […]

Make Xmas less Stressful – Process Vouchers, Payments and Sales on iPad & iPhone

You know that Christmas feeling… the bad one! Everybody is tripping over themselves at the till trying to put through payments, process vouchers, make appointments and answer the phone. It […]

Beauty Salons with Online Booking have 29% Higher Revenue

The current issue of Professional Beauty (October) contains a fascinating feature on the state-of-play of beauty salons in the UK. The reality is startling – beauty salons who provide the […]

SMS IDEAS – How World Egg Day and a Dictionary can make your Salon Money!

Firstly may I wish you a very happy International Vegetarian Day. I bet by the time you started reading this second sentence you were thinking, ‘That actually exists?’. It does. […]

HOW TO: Running a Competition for your Salon on Twitter

We got lots of questions after my last post on Facebook about how to run promotions and competitions on Twitter. So… here you go! A Twitter competition is a great way not […]

Competition Rules have changed on Facebook… AGAIN! But for the better…

  Facebook recently announced an update of its Page Terms that makes it easier for salons to run promotions on their Facebook Page. Here’s the low-down on the new rules… […]

How to Switch a Facebook Friends Page over to a Likes Page

A lot of salons starting out on Facebook create a ‘friends’ Facebook page and not a proper page that gets ‘likes’. As a Facebook trainer for salons, I get asked […]

Being a Star Performer when it Comes to Client Card Info

  The most important thing for your business to be successful is your clients. Obvious right? Without clients you don’t have revenue coming in, so collecting information on your customers […]

Starting up a Salon – 5 Real Lessons to Learn from a Newborn Entrepreneur

  Jennifer Fox started Cherry Red hair salon just over six months ago. Like many salon owners, aspiring or current, she faced great uncertainty and learned some hard lessons along […]