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Cause for salon marketing celebration as the ‘daily deal’ craze falters

Cause for salon marketing celebration as the ‘daily deal’ craze falters

There’s certain to be mixed feelings among salon & spa owners about the impending implosion of the ‘daily deal’ website phenomenon. Those salons that did well from it succeeded because they rigidly enforced their own strict conditions on the coupon buyers. The many more whose businesses were severely damaged by succumbing to the overblown promises [...]

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What are YOU doing to earn the consumers Trust?

What are YOU doing to earn the consumers Trust?

Consumer confidence is a fragile and delicate item. It takes month and years to build up, through long sequences of events where the client and the salon share experiences. In an instant, it can be smashed into a million pieces, and for some clients, there is no going back to the salon. Consumers are now [...]

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How to make your Marketing an investment, not an expense!

How to make your Marketing an investment, not an expense!

Your salon’s marketing is the most critical part of your business and needs to be treated as an investment for the lifestyle that you want to have through owning your salon. But there is a problem : No marketing equals no clients. No clients means no lifestyle. The investment that you make in the business [...]

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INCREASE your clients average spend in your salon – before Christmas is over!

INCREASE your clients average spend in your salon – before Christmas is over!

So the salon marketing is working like a treat! You have the  phone ringing off the hook, and the clients are lining up before you even arrive at work, trying to get in the door for their treatments. You have messages from people that are pleading with you to come into the salon. Are you [...]

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Do you have an Expensive J.O.B?

Do you have an Expensive J.O.B?

Salon marketing is the way to change your current situation from an employee of the business that owns you, to a business person who OWNS and RUNS their business! As you can imagine there are thousands of salons out there who have ownership of their therapist. The salon owner pays, at times an often over [...]

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Non Verbal Cues that STOP your sales!

Non Verbal Cues that STOP your sales!

Ever wondered why it is that some people can sell ice to the Eskimos, and other can’t?  Sales professionals  – that is all salon staff – should know which words and phrases to use and which ones not to. Sales professionals also know that it is also what you DON’T say that can destroy any [...]

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Reverse Engineering – How to make sure that your clients ALWAYS come back!

Reverse Engineering – How to make sure that your clients ALWAYS come back!

There are TWO new currencies that I have seen in this new economy that we are all in. After seeing and hearing from experts such as Donald Trump, Robert and Kim Kiyosaki, Tony Robbins, and T. Harv Ekker in Sydney the week before,  it has been cemented in place for me that we are now [...]

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Hair color expert David Velasco joins Worldwide Salon Marketing – check out the video

Hair color expert David Velasco joins Worldwide Salon Marketing – check out the video

Acclaimed stylist David Velasco is known throughout North America as the guru of hair color. But even the most acclaimed technicians know that merely being a great colorist isn’t enough by itself to bring customers in the door. Like many top salons, David joined the WSM Inner Circle salon marketing & mentoring program to discover [...]

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Baltimore salon owner reveals how her marketing is winning in the new economy

Baltimore salon owner reveals how her marketing is winning in the new economy

Jill Turnbull is an expatriate Australian who’s lived in the US for 20 years. As an accomplished stylist and makeup professional with more than 30 years in the beauty industry, Jill bit the bullet and opened her own salon in Baltimore – No Worries Salon – just this year. In this interview with WSM’s Canadian [...]

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Idaho salon reports ‘recession-busting’ marketing brings more customers

Listen in as Lee Reilly of Salon Technicolor in Pocatello, Idaho describes to WSM Canada director Catherine Hanson how she’s beating the recession – and creating her own economy – with aggressive but simple marketing that’s bringing 19% of her ‘lost’ customers back into the salon. Lee joined the WSM Inner Circle marketing & mentoring [...]

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How to increase NEW clients into your salon without doing services better than what you are doing now!

How to increase NEW clients into your salon without doing services better than what you are doing now!

Sound too good to true? It should do! Nothing comes for without a price.  And this little secret does have a price that has to be paid – in FULL! This little secret is so influential in the mind of the consumer, that it’s full weight cannot be measured. There is no way on earth [...]

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New Facebook Discussion Forum for Inner Circle Members ONLY – salon marketing & business mastermind group

New Facebook Discussion Forum for Inner Circle Members ONLY – salon marketing & business mastermind group

Click on the Facebook logo to take you through to the NEW Facebook discussion forum we’ve set up ONLY for Inner Circle Premium members (if you have the Toolkit and you’re paying a monthly membership fee, you’re a Premium member) This forum is separate from the Salon & Spa Owners Marketing Discussion Forum, which is [...]

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Salon Marketing 101: How’s THIS for laziness?

Salon Marketing 101: How’s THIS for laziness?

Are you asleep at the wheel of your business? It never ceases to amaze me how little effort most business owners put into researching their target market. It’s because most business owners are simply bone lazy Take this example of outstanding, Olympic-quality incompetence. Today I received the following email, apparently from a company purporting to [...]

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Do you need a dose of Brutal Reality…like THIS?

Do you need a dose of Brutal Reality…like THIS?

If you’ve ever felt down about your salon business, if you’ve reached the end of your tether, on the brink of failure, the bailiff knocking at the door, the bills piling up so high you can’t see over them…. You need to read this. If you’re in up to your ears, like this Inner Circle [...]

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How a FOOL IDEA helped this US salon owner DOUBLE her sales…in two weeks.

How a FOOL IDEA helped this US salon owner DOUBLE her sales…in two weeks.

“…We are stoked and plan to run this sale the entire month of June in 2011!” Inner Circle member (3 years) Molly Verbrugge of Indulgences in Little Rock, Arkansas, is justifiably glowing after a Worldwide Salon Marketing promotion she used for just two weeks in June this year boosted sales to $81,235 – a staggering [...]

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