Walk-ins or No Walk-ins?
Do you give walk-ins the red light, yellow light, or green-light-go? Consider which of these salon policies will help you increase client traffic.
by Tracy Rubert
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHDo you give walk-ins the red light, yellow light, or green-light-go? Consider which of these salon policies will help you increase client traffic.
Maggie says if she’d known then what she knows now about the business, she might have chosen a different career.
Maggie and her fledgling employee Baby Bird are dealing with client scheduling drama.
Maggie wonders why it is that clients still don’t know how to sit and extend their hands properly.
It happens every year around this time — it’s still light outside when most people are getting out of work. It’s not raining. It’s not cold, but it’s not hot yet. Everything is green. People get spring fever.
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This month we asked nail techs: How do you deal with client no-shows?
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