Practical advice to fill your appointment book, cut no-shows and grow your hair salon.
Kitomba has run trans-Tasman salons since 2002, but it will not tell you the price until you ask for a quote. Here is what its terms actually say, and what the alternatives cost an Australian hair salon.
You do hair all day; you do not have time to become a content creator. Here is a realistic Instagram method for a UK hair salon.
At one chair, every dollar of software spend comes out of your own pocket. Here is what each booking app really costs a solo stylist, checked at the source.
When the whole team is you, every software dollar comes out of your own pocket. Here is what each booking app really offers a Canadian independent stylist, checked at the source.
December is not won in December. It is won six weeks earlier, when you open your slots, settle the team schedule and get your best clients booked before the rush.
Adding a second chair is the biggest decision a salon owner makes. Employee or booth renter changes your taxes, your control, and who the clients belong to.
Turning away Saturday clients because you are a pair of hands short? Hiring a stylist is a campaign, not an advert. Here is the complete UK method.
Hairdresser is officially in shortage in every state. Here is how an Australian salon owner hires anyway: a job ad that works, a legal trial, an apprentice done properly and a first month that keeps them.
Salary websites give you five different averages. The Government of Canada publishes the real numbers. Here is what hairstylists earn by province, and what an offer really costs your salon.
The legal pay floors, the real employer cost and the new tips rules, verified on GOV.UK: a practical pay guide for UK hair salon owners.
The Hair and Beauty Award sets the floor, the market sits above it, and super adds 12% on top. Here is what hairdresser pay really looks like for an Australian salon owner.
Copying the salon down the street is not a pricing strategy. Here is the chair-hour math, the menu decisions and the scripts for raising prices without losing clients.
