Technology moves so quickly it can feel hard to
keep up, when even a "simple" cell phone choice
can be dizzying. But, sifting through the options
and finding the solution that best meets your needs is
worth it-you end up being better connected and more
productive than ever.
The same strategy applies to your salon business
and service menu. Just as cell phones and other
technologies keep evolving and getting "smarter," so
do salon services. Consumers and beauty professionals
keep challenging manufacturers to improve speed and
results, and to deliver new options and experiences.
Here, in this special section, we spotlight some of
the most innovative new service opportunities for 2011,
and spell out how you can leverage each to add more
dollars to your business and personal bottom line.
Tell Them "You Have
the App for That!"
Clients are ready for better, faster, more. Establish
your salon as a "beauty innovation authority" by
offering them bright new ideas that introduce
beauty enhancements within every aspect-hair,
skin care and nails. A few tips:
- Know the story: Script your front desk with time-of-booking suggestions for add-ons that add up.
- Tell everyone: Be sure every client who calls in or walks in learns from your reception team about advanced treatments and formulas they may not be aware even exist, as well as options to speed up familiar services, or that "little something extra" just to welcome spring.
- Cross-promote: Acquaint all stylists, estheticians, nail techs and assistants on your team with these same selections to discuss with clients in their chairs.
- Market your message: Develop marketing campaigns and advertising slogans around the new technologies to position your salon as a forward-thinking, rejuvenating destination.
- Don't forget Facebook! Be sure that your in-salon signage, salon menu, web site and social media efforts are ALL in sync with promoting your "innovation image," and introducing your updated service options.
In other words, to ensure you successfully use
innovation to move the growth pattern of your
salon revenue from red to black, do all you can to
reinforce the message that your salon is boldly
addressing clients' hair, nail care and skin care
needs and helping them to transition, beautifully,
to a new season.
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Stay up to date on all the latest
"beauty apps"! For new service
ideas and product offerings, log
onto cosmoprofbeauty.com.
Revenue Revolution
The current explosion of innovation we're experiencing
in the beauty industry detonates new
bursts of income for your salon. This special
Beauty Biz Trend Report identifies four additional
profit niches that will multiply your spring
and summer dollars. The plus is that exceeding
client expectations generates repeat, retail and
referral business-and that, as they say, is priceless!
Show clients how they can:
- Choose their texture. Today there's no reason for clients to complain about frizz, excessive curl, lack of body or thinning hair. Armed with keratin treatments, conditioning services, advanced product formulas and heat tools, your clients can have the hair of their dreams every single day.
- Save time. From quick highlight brightening and conditioning services that cut daily styling time to nail color that lasts two weeks and hair removal that eliminates plucking time, you have the answer to one thing every client is looking for-more hours in the day.
- Raise their beauty to the next level. The latest technology offers clients a degree of beauty that their mothers (and fathers) simply didn't have available to them. Watch their delight as you help them to discover what it's like to have a clean and healthy looking scalp, forever-fresh and glossy hair color, natural-looking applied eyelashes and customized nail shades. And don't forget the guys! Men's business is booming at many full-service and specialty salons, and many manufacturers are customizing products and service solutions to make salon experiences like hair color and other treatments more male-friendly.
- Stay safe. Beauty at any cost? That's never in fashion. Salons must be more careful than ever to use the highest quality products that keep clients and their hair, skin and nails free from harm.
Gloss and Shine
Scalp Help
Priority: Healthy-Looking Hair
Highlighting Help
Smooth and Straightforward
Skin Care Products: Three Sure Things
14-Day Nails
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