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Plain-language answers on salon money, filling the book, marketing, colour and your team — written for the person doing the work.

Salon Money

What you charge, what you keep, and where the money quietly leaks out. Pricing, retail, card fees, taxes and booth rent, written in plain numbers you can check against your own week.

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Salon Money

How to Increase Salon Revenue Without Adding More Chairs

More revenue usually hides inside the visits you already take. Here is where to look first: prices, paid add-ons, rebooking, retail, and the leaks you stopped noticing.

Kollin King
8 min read

Filling the Book

How to get a fuller calendar without dropping your prices. Where new clients come from, rebooking before they leave the chair, no-shows, deposits and waiting lists.

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Filling the Book

Salon Client Retention Strategies That Fill the Book

Rebook at the chair, write the client record down, follow up when the gap passes, and explain your price before the card reader does. Here is how to keep the clients you already have.

Kollin King
8 min read
Kollin King

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Kollin King

Founder of Hairvana · President, ProDesign International

Kollin King leads ProDesign International and QAI Hair, and founded Hairvana. He is the grandson of the late Dr. Lee Hunter, who founded ProDesign International, and he writes here about the business of running a salon - pricing, retention, hiring and the colour science behind the work.

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