Opening Your Own Salon

Last year Mario Doria the Director of Maestro Hair Salons shared his thoughts with Style Street on opening a new salon. He had recently stumbled upon Style Street and has the following to say.

This site has some really cool stuff. Some of the articles are really good, and some are I think misleading.
For example Opening a salon for $5000, has disaster written all over it.
It’s a saturated market and only the strong thrive the rest close down.

Before opening a salon, there should be a reason of why it’s going to work, other than you being the best hairstylist in the world. Unfortunately that’s not enough to succeed in the business world.
If these articles are for helping and guiding young hairdressers about to embark on as business venture, they should include,

• Preperation, surveying the area,
• population, average income, average age group in suburb, and see if this fits the kind of salon your dreaming of opening.
• Checking out existing salons, to see if there is a place for you to create something new and fresh.
• Marketing/ advertising plan
• Salon look and feel, the kind of space you wish to create.
• Banking, Accounting, and legal Issues
• Suppliers
• Branding, Image.

If these things along with many others are not addressed in the preperation stage, you will be one of the 75% of salons that fail and eventually go broke.

What our industry doeasn’t need is more salons going broke and bastardizing it along the way, with $5 haircuts and $25 colors in $5000 salons.

We can control our industries future and build it to how it once was many moons ago. Hairdressers were one of the most highly respected trades, and were viewed as artists.
We need to get back to that place where we charge what we are worth per hour like all the other trades. And to do that we need beautiful places to work from that inspire clients and give them an experience worth paying for and returning back again and again.
Opening a $5000 salon I don’t think so. Let’s fill our young stylists minds with sound advice they can use and not false hopes that will see them as the 30th salon in a suburb doing one client a day because of a special they saw on the window.

We have a serious problem in Australia with too many bad hairdressers, in bad salons doing bad work under priced. Which means they can’t employ quality stylists and pay them what their worth, and so they pay the minimum and get the stylists that are at the bottom end who don’t care about their ability or our industry.
As Doctor Phill says “We can’t change what we don’t acknowledge”

I would love to see a governing body for our industry that could have a set standard before one could be issued with a licence to open a salon.

Other countries have stylists earning double what our stylists are earning. We need to address these issues and have new salons that open become a part of our solution not the problem. $5000 salons I don’t think so.

Robert Lobetta and Ozdare Competition

We are giving away a ticket to see Robert Lobetta.

To enter simply subscribe to Style Street before Thursday 3rd September and be in the draw to win one free ticket. (Melbourne only).
The winner will be picked at random and announced on Friday 4th September. Good Luck.

THIS IS NOT A HAIRSHOW
BUT A JOURNEY INTO
THE CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS,
PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE.
JOIN ROBERT LOBETTA FOR
AN EVENING OF INSPIRATION,
CREATIVITY AND HUMOUR

Hair Stylist, salon owner, product creator, marketer, photographer…….. Robert Lobetta has done it all!

A 21st century hairdressing icon, he is renowned for his raw energy, incredible imagination and mind – blowing artistry. Join Robert for a journey into his world – share his vision, hear about his experiences through the Creative Conciousness; it will open your eyes to new concepts in brand culture. It’s time to be inspired and bring you and your vision to life.

For tickets, please call 1800 104 204
Session times: 7.00 – 9.00pm

Ticket price: $125.00

GEELONG
28th September
Four Points by Sheraton
10-14 Eastern Beach Road, Geelong VIC 3220

MELBOURNE
29th September
Astor Theatre
1 Chapel Street, St.Kilda VIC 3182

ADELAIDE
30th September
South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

BRISBANE
5th October
Powerhouse Visy Theatre
119 Lamington Street, New Farm QLD 4005

CANBERRA
6th October
Canberra Business Event Centre
The Eye
Regatta Point
Commonwealth Park, Acton ACT 2608

SYDNEY
7th October
Chauvel Cinema
Paddington Town Hall
Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rd, Paddington NSW 2021

For more information on Ozdare products
call (+613) 9314 9099

Hair and Beauty Forum

Style Street launched a hair and beauty forum last year, but unfortunately when our backs were turned it was taken over by spammers. We’ve now cleaned up the forum and its ready for use by everyone in the hairdressing or beauty industries and by anyone wanting to ask questions about hair and beauty.

So please check out the forum. You’ve got a clean canvas to work with. Don’t be shy about being one of the first people to post, that’ll simply mean you’re on the cutting edge. Drop by to discuss techniques, products, salons or simply to gossip.

We’re looking for someone to be a moderator on the forum, so if you’re interested and in the industry then get in contact. In the meantime I’ll be closely monitoring the forum and making sure spammers are kept away.

Slash your Advertising Costs

Style Street is getting dressed. A key feature is our free employment advertising for all salons. Check out our hair and beauty jobs section now. Our developers and designers are still putting the finishing touches on our self serve job advertising, but you can already list jobs. Do It! Enter a job now!

How much do you spend a month on advertising for employees for your hairdressing or beauty salon. $200? $500? $2000? That is crazy. Hair and beauty professionals can slash their advertising costs by using the Style Street Employment Free Listing.

Enter a job right now! It’s free. More hairdressers and beauticians are setting Style Street as their homepage every day. Join the revolution. Help build our industry portal and reduce your advertising and recruitment costs.

Your Industry Portal

Finally a Hairdressing and Beauty Industry Portal has arrived. JOIN the fastest growing hairdressing and beauty community in Australia.

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The Street will bring you a steady diet of cool free stuff plus hairdressing and beauty tips from all over her world. Subscribe via RSS or email. We even offer a monthly highlights email, chick full of tips, events and information. Read more

Launch Update

Scarlett Johansson always looks fantastic. The rest of us need to keep working at it. Here at Style Street we’ve still got a lot of work to do, but keep checking back as in the coming weeks we’ll be launching some huge competitions and giveaways.