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Is your career where you want it to be? Are you making as much money as you’d like? Are you thrilled to go to work everyday at a salon you love with clients you adore?

Or could things use a little bit of improvement?

Maybe you’ve grown holes in your book big enough to park a semi in. Maybe all of your days seem the same. Maybe you’ve just lost the spark.

You could use a lift. A jolt. Something that will wake you up, make you feel alive and and make you remember why you got into this business in the first place.

Maybe you need The Ultimate Guide to Booth Rental Success.

It is everything you need to pick you up and put you back on the road to loving your job.

*Improve every client’s experience
*Retain more first-time clients
*Double your referral business
*Create and own a niche
*Easy ways to improve your retail income
*Find more of the clients you want
*How to use technology to grow your clientele
*Easy extras to add value to every client
*How to turn your clients in to raving fans
*Defining your unique advantage
*Pre-book your clients without rejection
*A bunch of easy to run, effective promotions

This isn’t just a bunch of stuff that only works in commission salons. These are ideas especially designed for booth renters, to address the unique problems you face making a living with your own small business.

By utilizing just a couple of the ideas in The Ultimate Guide to Booth Rental Success, you could easily double your income this year. Do a few more and the sky is the limit.

*No more spending money on advertising that doesn’t work
*No more waiting for walk-ins
*No more rethinking your plan every few months, trying to find something that works
*No more wondering if you can pay your rent and buy color this month.

You will be in charge of your book, working on the clients YOU want to and enjoying your job more than you have in years.

Getting The Ultimate Guide to Booth Rental Success is easy. It’s only $39 and you can download it right now and get started changing your life for the better.

Consider what each new or retained client is worth to you – between $200 and $1000 each year and The Ultimate Guide to Booth Rental Success is a bargain. Simply click on the “Add to Cart” button below. Paypal will help you with your transaction and the Booth Renter’s Roadmap to Success will be yours.

P.S. If you need any help implementing your plan, I’m including three month’s of FREE email support with your purchase. FREE business counseling, really. You are welcome to ask me anything about growing your booth rental business from finding new clients to other (not-scary) ways to promote yourself as the talented, hair god (or goddess) that I know you are.

And because I can’t offer this forever, this offer of unlimited (for three months) love and hand-holding is good through the end of July. So get out your credit card and buy it today!

Have you  ever had one of those days at the salon when you feel like you’re herding cats?

Yes, these people are your tribe and they are like family.

But some days they are like your dear Aunt Millie and other days they remind you much more of your crazy Uncle Shirley. And that’s just one stylist.

With some people you never know which of their many personalities is going to show up for work on any given day. And in a salon you’ve got a lot of personalities to work with. Trying to get everybody moving in the same direction sometimes like…. herding cats.

Herding cats has it’s upside. Everyday is different. Sometimes exciting. Always interesting to watch.

But it can be rough on your business. And on your state of mind. If everybody is running in different directions, its difficult to move forward. So mostly, you stay in the same place. Albeit, a little bit frantically.

What if you could get your whole salon moving in the same direction? What could that do for your business? Stop for a second and consider the possibilities.

A salon owner’s life is hard.

You had a vision for your salon.

But instead of creating the salon of your dreams,you spend your days refereeing disputes and arguing with stylists about folding towels, sweeping hair and selling retail.

This isn’t what you signed up for.

Did you know that there are salons where the booth renters and the salon owners happily work together to achieve goals for the common good of the salon?

Wouldn’t you like to join this select group of happy, prosperous and serene salon owners?

To have a healthy and productive relationship with your booth renters?

To spend your days working to grow your business, not just trying to hold it together?

You need a contract.

Have you thought about using email to stay in touch with  your clients, but  haven’t gotten started yet? Does putting it together seem too complicated? You are not alone. The vast majority of hair stylists are not emailing or texting to their clients, missing out on this great opportunity to market for free! But it’s not too late for you.  In fact, email could help you make a lot more money this year!

Here’s why –

How many businesses send you emails? A bunch, I bet.  A quick glance at my inbox would show you email from American Airlines, Off-Broadway Show Warehouse, Restaurants.com, ITunes, Pizza Hut and Gourmet Magazine as well as a number of newsletters from different groups I belong to. Why do they do this? It’s an inexpensive way to stay in touch with me with great offers and details of upcoming events. Even if I don’t read them all, I see their name every time I open my email. It’s useful information that is cheap for them to distribute and easy for me to read.

How can this work for you?

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Too often I hear about salons with 8 empty chairs that have tried EVERYTHING they can think of to fill them. New salons open and are magically full of booth renters and stylists – Why does that happen? I hope this isn’t going to be too painful, but let’s look at why some salons attract booth renters and others don’t.

Did you dream of owning a salon only to wake up to the nightmare of dealing with a booth renter who is making your life hell? She refuses to fold the towels, doesn’t sell retail because she’s an “Artist”, keeps asking when you are going to do some advertising and reminds you constantly that you can’t tell her what to do because she’s an independent contractor.

All of this stomach-churning drama could be avoided if you had a contract. Not just a “we agree to 2 weeks notice before you leave” contract, but a agreement that outlines standards of expected behavior.

Have you got an empty chair you’d like to fill? 

Not surprising, since 53% of the salons in America currently have job openings and 75% of the available jobs in the industry go unfilled every year.

How are you going to set yourself apart from all of the other salons looking to hire that brilliant new stylist or wonderfully productive booth renter with the full clientele? In this tight job market, you are competing with every other salon in town for that stylist.

There are the traditional ways – putting an ad in the newspaper, hounding your distributor sales reps to send you someone or asking your stylists if one of their friends is interested, but how about a different, more effective approach? Let’s look some ways to set your salon apart and find the stylist you’ve been waiting for.