The Need for Peace vs. The Need for New Customers

Your eyes are closed, muscles are slack, as creams and ointments are gently massaged into your skin, giving you the most luxuriant feeling of total relaxation and calm. All of the sudden the sound of a hairdryer firing up blasts through the quiet, breaking your mood. Next, you hear several voices chattering energetically further shattering your sense of sanctuary. And the thought begins dawn on you that you’d love to get your relaxing facial in complete privacy, where no one can interrupt the mood with their own noises elsewhere in the salon.

That’s exactly what Dianne Gray thought when she was trying to decide if opening her own, one-chair salon was the way to go. It didn’t take long for Dianne to conclude she could serve her extensive client base much better if she had complete control of the environment. After decades of sharing salon space (even those with private treatment rooms), she decided to slather it all on—she’d makeover a room in her own home into a salon to give her clients the most peaceful facials in the Valley of the Moon.

Beauty Takes Work!

Everyone loves to feel they look their best. But no one wants to walk into a crowded salon in their “Before” look for one and all to see. Hence, the one-chair, private salon is the perfect solution for complete comfort for Dianne Gray’s clients. They know they can completely “let their hair down” without intrusion or interruption at this Sonoma business.

In this episode of “Marcia’s Medleys,” Dianne described not only her many services for facials, waxing, manicures and pedicures, but she also explained her winning business strategy to market her salon. After all, she’s not exactly on a main street. There are no walk-ins and no large picture windows to advertise her services to sidewalk passerby.

Learn all about:

• How skin treatments can vastly improve skin condition.
• The pros and cons of diversification with a skin care product line to offer clients.
• Strategies for boosting sales around the holidays.
• What marketing strategy and tactics work most successfully for a salon owner, manicurist and esthetician.

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