What’s Your Excuse?
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 […]
So You Think You Can FaceBlogTwitLink?
Social Media is Excellent PR We recently shared some knowledge with our class at the American Board of Certified Haircolorists (ABCH) Educational ‘Summit’. For us it was a snapshot of 40 education-hungry colorists and what they knew about using social media to help them promote their business. Only a few understood it much at all. […]
A Twitter Guide for Salon Industry Professionals and Businesses – Part 2
Part 2 of a 2 part series Followers & Following In Part 1, Twitter ─ your ‘Aha’ Moment we looked at how to Twitter with a salon industry focus. This part 2 is about who to follow and how to find the people you want to follow on Twitter. Who Do You Follow? Who you […]
A Twitter Guide for Salon Industry Professionals and Businesses – Part 1
Part 1 of a 2 part series Twitter – Your ‘Aha!’ moment? OK gang. Many of you have confessed to being Twitter ‘challenged’. In our travels (and in the research) we’ve seen many who begin to twitter, then stop … their twitter names lying fallow with no tweets for months. No surprise. Twitter itself has […]
Salon Blog and Twitter – A Yummy Combination
Get ‘Engaged’ As our BeautyPRpro blog subscribers know, Sharon and I are great proponents of using social media to help you get closer to your clients (and the media), attract new clients (and the media) that don’t know about you yet, and keep you more ‘connected’ to all them … regularly. Today’s social media tools […]
Twitter for On-Line Scheduling or What?
Get it While it’s Hot! Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan on Twitter, and chrisbrogan.com on his blog), is a person we suggested you follow on Twitter in our recent Twitter blog post . He just tweeted a very hot idea he found on Mr. Tweet (don’t ask…we’ll explain later). Within hours it’s been retweeted over 200 times […]
What Not to do in Public Places
Where Am I? Have you ever been at a beauty industry event, sitting in the crowded and noisy hotel restaurant, having a ‘private’ conversation with a friend, and catch yourself sharing a thought above the din you would never want someone else to hear? Oops. Good thing no one heard that. Or did they? An […]
Are You Twittering?
Ouch! I’ve been a fuddy-duddy (Bet you haven’t heard that word in a while). I first heard about Twitter well over a year or so ago and my immediate reaction was, “puleeeze … another texting toy” having nothing to do with salon, spa or beauty pr, and gave it no more thought than that. I […]