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Ask The Readers – How’s Your Life In The Salon?
This week instead of talking to you, I’d like to hear about your life in the salon. Are you being held hostage by your booth renters? Do you have 6 empty chairs and don’t know how to fill them? Are you ready to sell the whole place? Or is life pretty good? How are you feeling about it? Do you have any advice for other readers?
Please respond in the comments, and feel free to respond to each other.
Thanks! Chelly
I myself are going through the emtpy chairs and don’t know how to fill them I have been advertising for months. I opened the Salon in April and have been advertising etc. I cannot seem to get anybody in the Salon. The couple of stylist I have (Booth Renter) don’t have any clientel they have not been there long so they just don’t show up unless they have an appointment, so then it looks like I am not even opened I have helped as much as I possibly can toinclude giving them a break on there booth rent I have not even made enough to pay one bill since April. Does any one have any advice. This is my retirement from the Military which is within the next 2 months and I can’t count on anyone. I don’t want to loose my Salon but it don’t look good. Help
September 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pmyou need to check your location are you on a main strip where cars pass by on the regular is your salon clean? is the atmosphere right? do you have a treat for the client when they come to the appointment? i have sattelite radio i brew coffee and i pay special attention to every client that comes in. I also do not mix business with pleasure i do not go out with the booth renters i only talk with them during salon hours some are more needy than others but if they leave so what rent the booth to someone else but make sure your location is prominent keep it clean and nice your booths will fill AUTOMATICALLY
September 30th, 2008 at 6:53 pmI enjoyed reading your work! GREAT post! I looked around for this? but I found you! Anyway, would you mind if I threw up a backlink from my site?
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OMG things have been crazy for me at my salon for a good two years i have been open for four. My stylist have been unprofessional all across the board(Dress attire, attitudes, burning hair out etc). Well I put my foot down hired a manager and she fired them all this weekend and guess what the same day they were fired I started getting bad personal reviews. I get enegry from people doing stupid stuff like this it just make me work harder but do you think I should shut down my yahoo local account Salon36 Long Beach, California by the way thank you for your website it is one of the reason I let the bad stylist go.Thanks
September 6th, 2009 at 2:25 pmI am so happy i found your website. I am sitting here trying to make notes for a salon meeting tomorrow. I’m ready to shut the doors and never look back. I have been a stylist for 25 years. I opened my shop coming up on six years ago. I wanted to be a booth rent salon and was for four years….Then the economy changed. Now i have four booth renters and five commission people.I have to have the commission people because the four booth renters wont cover the bills. I’m so sick of being a babysitter, the commission girls never want to be there unless they have a client. Paying your dues is not a part of this generations vocabulary. Lazy is all they know. I will hvae the meeting tomorrow and use your advice. Thank you and we will see what happens.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:01 pmI have had my salon for 3 years. I am a hard worker, but when a stylist interviews with me they say what I want to hear. A few months later they begin to change. I have had one commissioned stylist that only lasted 2 weeks she had no clients. I’ve had 3 booth renters they hardly had clients. I don’t know what to do at this point I offer refreshments to all clients and stylist the salon is clean in a busy area. I am the only one who seems to do well. I am thinking paying by the hour and going to the hair schools. I need some advice. Thank you for this web page..
January 5th, 2010 at 10:57 amI opened my salon March 18,2009. It was scary but in the year I have been opened I have more than doubled my salon revenue. Yes even in this economy! Women want to look their best so we have accomodated them by offering partial colors and mini hi lites. They are still in the salon just as often as they were before but thet feel like they are getting a bargain. I throw in a free brow wax with color service. The word FREE is powerful. I have a site on Citysearch.com. myspace.com,facebook.com and twitter. I also use google and yellowpages.com. All are free except citysearch. Everyone uses the internet. Utililize the INTERNET. We are doing hair extensions for $800-$1000 AND KERATIN SMOOTHING TREATMENTS FOR $400-$600. The ECONOMY isn’t that bad obviously. Keep an upbeat, positive attitude around clients and staff. Tell them things are great. There is enough bad news all around us.
May 30th, 2010 at 12:15 pm