"AND would you like us to trim your carbon footprint as well as your fringe?''

OK... training over and a few years of experience completed. Are you going to work for someone for ever?

Why not go on your own? A hairdressers clients are generally said to be very loyal but the truth is, they're worried silly of not finding another hairdresser so they'll follow you if they can so you already have a reasonable client base unless you want to move miles away.

Now... you're an artists eh? You've also got to be a business person and that means learning some new stuff that doesn't require a comb or a dryer.

I just read about a salon that closed in Rochester, NY after being opened for nearly 5 yrs and had 6 stylists working there.

This is always a bummer but you have to wonder exactly what happened to make this salon close. Was it in fact the economy or had the owner been depending on only one means of bringing in new customers?

I mean I don't know and the article didn't give much as far as details other than the economy played a part or at least was blamed for the closure. So I'm not here to point fingers but to offer some strong recommendations as to how to keep your salon open.

click here for the rest of the article: http://stylin.wordpress.com/2010/03/19

There are 3 essentials to building a great salon business, and as primitive as that sounds most trip over some of the required steps. Mostly because only a small portion of businesses employ real building strategies, it's easy to get satisfied when we perceive that things are going OK and then when the economy is down ... oh no, now what are we going to do?...

A beauty professional needs to understand that there are 3 ways to increase and recession proof his salon business. And it's really as easy as pie.

Most of the hairdressers that I know get fooled and wrapped up in the day to day grind of going to work and performing their service and they forget about the biggest reason of why they even started a business - to develop a good return and make a profit.. but