Archive for 'Beating the Competition'
Why the salon next door isn’t your real competition
A phone conversation with a salon owner this week started like this: “I’ve got a new salon opening up just three doors down, three others nearby are cutting prices, I don’t know what to do!!” This salon owner was beginning to panic, but she was missing the point, so I told her, ‘settle down, and [...]
Read moreAlpha Women are shopping again – what are you doing to get their attention?
Articles that discuss what social groups spending patterns is a very interesting read for a salon marketer. An interesting article came across my desk this morning, talking about what the future holds, and the indicators that companies use to gauge consumer spending. The article, from Marketwatch talks about how the “alpha women” have had enough [...]
Read moreIf your Salon has caused you to miss lunch, then you MUST read this!
I know that this is going to raise eyebrows for all salon owners. I have finally seen what some salons are trying to be! And it is not pretty… If you have ever MISSED lunch trying to fit clients in, then this is a MUST read! For a long time now it has been the [...]
Read moreWhen your competition copies you…
Do you find it annoying when a competing salon sees how successful you are, and simply copies your advertising for themselves? Yep, there it is, virtually a direct copy of the ad you ran only last week. Well, get over it. Pay it no more attention. In fact, you should be celebrating it. Because what [...]
Read moreWhat to do when your competition COPIES you…
We’ve often had Members ask what to do when a nearby salon sees the marketing churned out by one of ‘our’ salons – and attempts to copy it. For most Members, this is rarely a big problem, mainly because the salon ‘swiping’ the ideas in our Member’s advertising hardly ever ‘gets it’, and invariably makes a [...]
Read moreDumb and Dumber: Why the Big Beauty Businesses are Struggling, and How Small Independent Salons can Laugh All the Way to the Bank.
Despite what you read in the newspapers, it’s not ALL bad news. From the Big End of town to the tiny end, there are plenty of reports indicating that the “recession” is patchy, uneven at best, certainly NOT a uniform slide into economic oblivion. McDonald’s is reporting a massive 80% increase in net profit in [...]
Read more"Wow…it's AMAZING how my business has changed!" says small salon owner
90 new clients every month, and $109,509 in extra sales for ’08 (IC Members: Log into the Members Only section, navigate to Getting New Clients – Hair, and you’ll be able to download the exact ads and text messages Rechelle describes here) “I have been in business for 11 years and never had the success [...]
Read moreAre you an entrepreneur, or just a business owner?
Even those salon and spa owners whose business is recording bigger and bigger sales in spite of the recession (and there are plenty of our Inner Circle members reporting extraordinary results, see the photo and caption at left, and elsewhere on this site) it would be foolish to point at such results and say [...]
Read moreSalon Marketing: Two Great Salon and Spa Successes…
Worldwide Salon Marketing members: see below for the exact ad that brought one Member 87 new clients and $12,000 extra sales in a month. You might be wondering ‘how can a little salon like mine ever be a successful business….when I know nothing about business!?’ Well, take heart. About the only thing you can hear on [...]
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