What’s Your Excuse?

Posted by Alexander Irving under Blogging, Building Authority, Consumer Editorial, Editorial Insights, Email, Facebook, General, Getting Started, How-To, In-Salon Event Ideas, Industry Opportunities, Networking, New Media, News Releases, Photography, Ramblings, Salon Marketing, Strategy, The PR Mindset, Tips & Tricks, Trends, Twitter, Unique Promotions, Your website

Some writings resonate We’ve heard every reason and excuse in the book for salon professionals not doing anything about their PR. “I can’t afford to hire a PR agency.“, or, I can’t afford monthly commitments“.  Those two have always been the biggies. Well we’ve figured that one out for you. Check out PR a la […]

Money in Your Beauty Industry Pocket

Posted by Alexander Irving under General, How-To, Industry Opportunities, Salon Marketing, Trends

Takes Only 30 Seconds This is an unusual post for BeautyPRpro. We think you’ll understand why we deviate from our usual offerings when you read just a little more.  The action we ask is simple. Click this link and put a few extra bucks in your pocket. Well, not instantly, but eventually it means we […]

3 Hot Ideas to Make You Cool News

Posted by Alexander Irving under Building Authority, General, How-To, New Media, Strategy, The PR Mindset, Tips & Tricks, Trends

Early Birds Get the Worms The media loves the ‘bleeding edge’.  News is about ‘new’ after all.  As always, it’s the ‘early bird that gets the worm’.  In this case the ‘worm’ is neighborhood, industry, and even national news pickup.  What’s the scoop? Geolocation, and QR codes … Smart Phone Technology and ‘smart’ marketing!  It’s […]

Top 10 Tips For Beauty Career Success

Posted by Sharon Esche Irving under Building Authority, General, Networking, New Media, Ramblings, The PR Mindset, Trends

I love meeting amazing and straightforward people like Thia Breen.  She lifts me up with her own phenomenal beauty career success story but stops me cold with forehead-slapping simple solutions  to ‘OPSCOCC’ – other people’s self-created overly-complicated career challenges! (my term, not hers <g>) How does Thia know about all that? She was one of […]

How to Begin a Movement – ‘Passion’ and ‘Fun’ Sells

Posted by Alexander Irving under Building Authority, General, Networking, New Media, Ramblings, Strategy, The PR Mindset, Trends

Why Have Over a Million People Watched This Video on YouTube? It was shot at the Sasquatch Music Festival this year.  Either you get it, or you don’t.  Either you will do something with it … or you won’t.  As always … the ball’s in your court. If you don’t get it ( or you […]

Susan Boyle: The Biggest YouTube Sensation Ever?

Posted by Alexander Irving under Building Authority, General, The PR Mindset, Trends

Wow!  Multi-millions of views on YouTube.  Susan Boyle’s appearance on “Britains Have Talent” has captured the world’s attention … and moved millions to tears.  Everybody who saw was affected … everybody. Why?  What touched us so deep down we were forced to watch it beginning to end more than once?  What ‘possessed’ us to immediately […]

Trends – Launching Platform for Both PR and Salon/Spa Growth

Posted by Alexander Irving under Building Authority, General, Getting Started, Strategy, The PR Mindset, Trends

Are You a Catalyst for Change? Back a while we posted Good PR in a Bad Economy. We looked at ‘catching the wave’ specifically relevant to consumers looking for ‘value-added. But, there are trends galore for you to capitalize on. You simply have to recognize them early on. If you’re seriously interested in gleaning more […]

The PR Power of Blogging for Salons

Posted by Alexander Irving under Blogging, Building Authority, General, New Media, Strategy, Trends

I Never Really Understood Blogging Our industry community got a later start with computers in our businesses and lives.  That’s not a criticism, just a fact.  It took our beauty industry sector longer than most others to adopt computers and use the internet as a daily part of salon/spa business and personal life.  I speculate […]