How to Fill Last-Minute Salon Cancellations Without Living in Your DMs
A last-minute salon cancellation does not have to trigger a DM scramble. Build a useful wait list, fill openings fairly, and protect your calendar with salonMonster.
Salon Talk
The Bold Idea Is the Point
There’s a specific moment most people don’t notice happening to them. An idea shows up: a weird one, a big one, the kind that doesn’t come with instructions. And before it’s even finished forming, a second voice jumps in: Would that actually work? That question feels like good judgment. It isn’t. It’s premature finishing. You’re … Read more
The Antihero Has Entered the Chat (And They’ve Been Behind Your Chair the Whole Time)
There’s a character showing up everywhere right now, in the shows everyone’s watching, in the brands people are actually loyal to, in the conversations that stick with you after you’ve already left the room. They’re not the hero. They’re not trying to be. They don’t have a highlight reel. They’re not performing gratitude for the … Read more
Exposure Isn’t a Currency. Unless You Decide It Is.
There’s a conversation happening in the music industry right now that’s gotten loud enough for the general public to start paying attention. Artists being asked to play weddings for free. Producers being offered a shoutout in exchange for a track. Session musicians, the invisible hands behind some of the most recognized songs on the radio, … Read more
Haven’t Listed Your Salon With Google Yet? Do it now in 10 minutes or less!
Are you old enough to remember the days of the Yellow Pages? That massive brick of yellow paper didn’t just make a great doorstop, it was the main place people looked to find anything. Every business owner had to have an ad in the Yellow Pages. Today, the Yellow Pages are a thing of the … Read more
When the Ground Shifts Do You Have a Plan? (And No, We Don’t Mean a Financial One)
This one started with a broken leg. A few weeks ago one of our team members got hurt, nothing life threatening, just one of those unexpected things that shows up without asking. And almost immediately, without really talking about it, the rest of us started shifting. We started showing up a little differently. Checking in … Read more
Stylist Horror Story Videos: What to Do When a Client Posts About You.
The rise of “stylist horror story” content and what hairdressers can actually do about it
There’s a particular kind of gut punch that hairdressers know well. It usually arrives as a notification… a tagged post, a comment from a colleague, a client’s username in your DMs; and when you click through, you find yourself watching a video of someone you just spent four hours with, describing your work like you were the worst thing that ever happened to their hair.
The caption says “stylist horror story.”
The comments say “girl run.”
And somewhere in the retelling, the consultation disappeared. The formula discussion disappeared. The three reference photos you both agreed on disappeared. What’s left is a narrative that’s clean, shareable and almost entirely fictional… and it has your salon’s name in it.