Archive for Salon Marketing

Opportunity knocks but salon owners won’t answer the door

May 14, 2012 2 Comments

Trick question, if you have a five hundred customers on your salon database, over the next three hundred and sixty five days, how many of them will have a birthday? Okay, so it’s not a trick question. However, regardless of how many customers you have on your database, over the next three hundred and sixty […]

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Mothers Day’s coming – do you have sales balls?

May 06, 2012 No Comments

Want to know one of the biggest differences between a good salon owner and an average one? A good salon owner knows the difference between business and busyness. If you are the owner of a salon, you alone are responsible for the bottom line. Employees are paid to be busy BUT business owners are paid […]

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IDENTIFYING YOUR POINT OF DIFFERENCE AND CARRYING IT THROUGH YOUR BUSINESS

Mar 13, 2012 3 Comments

Not having a USP (unique selling point) is as bad as not having a credit card payment facility in your business.  You may as well not trade or else just be happy plodding along.  The reality is that every single industry and every single business planning to open requires a USP and in fact if […]

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4 smart tips for successful Valentines Day SMS Marketing

Jan 31, 2012 No Comments

This post follows on from “How to put the love into your Valentine’s Day Email Marketing.” To kick start your SMS marketing for Valentine’s Day your first job is to create personalised SMS templates in Salon Studio CRM and most importantly, start sending your Valentine’s Day promotions this week. If you leave it any later […]

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Another outrageous benefit for Salon Studio Customers!

Jan 23, 2012 No Comments

Breaking News! – Salon Management Studio partners with All4women.co.za to expose your beauty business to more than 100 000 South African women per month! Salon Management Studio has been working behind the scenes to bring you more benefits, more value and more marketing tools for your Salon. We have officially partnered with all4women.co.za to create “The […]

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ARE YOU READY FOR 2012

Dec 22, 2011 No Comments

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS The Health and Wellness Industry is no doubt still one of the fastest growing industries in the world!  With this in mind I am sure you are feeling like competition is getting stronger, the spa goer is more educated on different types of treatments and service expectations […]

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Christmas Marketing Strategy # 2 – Be the first Salon they think about

Dec 07, 2011 No Comments

This Christmas your customers are going to get a lot of Christmas Cards. They expect to get Christmas Cards from family, friends and even work colleagues. However, they don’t expect to get a Christmas Greeting from a local small business like yours. That’s why it is so important for you to send every one of […]

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Christmas Marketing Strategy # 1 – Fill your Scheduler now

Dec 07, 2011 No Comments

The purpose of marketing is profit. Marketing must put more money in the bank. If profit is what you want then your first goal has to be getting your Salon Scheduler full for the holidays. If you get your scheduler full you can… – Rebook customers for another appointment in January. – Get a referral […]

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The Salon Owners complete Christmas marketing plan

Dec 07, 2011 No Comments

Newsflash – Christmas is the most important trading period for a retail business like yours! Last week I spoke to a Salon Owner who told me that she had a very slow 2011. If you have any business smarts, you will know that Christmas is your opportunity to catch up. In a recent post entitled, […]

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Blink and you will miss this marketing opportunity

Nov 15, 2011 No Comments

That’s right, don’t blink because the “Christmas Spending Season” is right around the corner. That’s good news if you are a Salon Owner. For many of you reading this post, this has been a long difficult year. In an email I sent to my clients recently, I spoke about the fact that Economists are predicting […]

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