by alaynecurtiss | Feb 12, 2020 | Alayne Curtiss, Salon Ownership
So, your sales may be down, or you had a walkout or maybe you just think your having a bad year! Well, before you start feeling down or wonder what you can do to increase sales, let’s do an interesting exercise. Take your sales, profit and profit percentage for...
by alaynecurtiss | Jan 16, 2020 | Alayne Curtiss, Salon Ownership
A challenge that many salon owners run into is the need for more staff. Not just bodies, but people genuinely caring, passionate, and most of all motivated to more than just the minimum requirement. There is a lot of competition out there for staff that possess those...
by alaynecurtiss | Jan 8, 2020 | Alayne Curtiss, Salon Ownership, Salon Walkout, Stop The Walkouts
So you have just experienced your first walkout, fear runs through your entire body, you can’t stop shaking, everything is blurry. How are you going to pay the bills, you can barely keep up now? How are you going to service all the clients, when all of your...
by alaynecurtiss | Dec 28, 2019 | Alayne Curtiss, Salon Ownership
Becoming a successful salon owner can be challenging, not to mention stressful. But if opening a salon is your dream, don’t let anything or anyone hold you back. As you embark onto this journey here a few qualities that you will need to embody along the way....
by alaynecurtiss | Nov 20, 2019 | Alayne Curtiss, Salon Ownership
It happened in my salon, 6 people resigned all within a few weeks. My business coach at the time told me to “get in there and find out why!” As I started asking, the same name kept coming up. My staff was being bullied on my day off by the person I had...
by alaynecurtiss | Oct 15, 2019 | Alayne Curtiss, Salon Ownership
If you are looking to get more clients in the door of your salon, it’s time to turn your marketing game up a couple of notches. One of the biggest concerns for salon owners is the hefty price that is often associated with marketing, but you don’t always have to go the...
