As things return to “normal” are you now worried about a slow summer? Get fresh with Summertime specials to help keep your business growing and financially healthy.

1. Pre-book and book-end appointments around your salon clients’ vacation schedules.

So often we make clients book around our schedules – on the days that we’re in and when we don’t have other appointments on the books. For your regular clients, and especially those clients who regularly receive color, texture, and other big-ticket services, schedule around them instead.

Before summer comes, ask your clients to give you their vacation dates and bookend their appointments (meaning, one appointment a few days before, and one appointment a few days afterward) around their vacation dates. They will love that you are helping to manage their schedule and keep them looking their best when they are off seeing friends and family on summer vacations.

2. Serve up summertime salon specials during slow or hard-to-fill salon hours.

Get customers in the door during your slowest hours by creating special offers on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest to make slow summertime hours more profitable.

3. Add new summer-themed products to your salon retail.

Adding a new line of products to your salon retail could open up whole new lines of business for your salon. You could attract new target audiences, and you can also grow your average ticket if you add the right products and gift items to the home hair care and skin care products you already sell!

Expand inventory by bringing in a line of designer sunglasses, sun hats, flip-flops, towels, summer-themed jewelry, lip products with SPF protection, sunscreen, sun skin repair, or self-tanning lotions or sprays.

4. Add new services perfect for salon clients in the summer months.

Convert a space in your salon to offer spa services for the summer months such as:

• Pedicures to show off beautiful bare toes.
• Specialty fingernail or toenail painting and decals.
• Summer make-up station featuring travel-size make-up products.
• Summertime deep conditioning treatments for hair or skin.

5. Extend special offers on hair and skin that salon clients love for summer.

Clients who will be traveling to visit family and friends in far-off places want to look their very best – and so do clients who are staying home. Create special summer-themed offers to bring clients in for the perfect “sun-inspired” highlights with foils, skin exfoliation, and soothing to brighten and even skin tone, or pedicures to undo the damage caused by going barefoot or wearing sandals. Create a special offer for clients who come in and add these summer specials to their regular appointments. Invite clients to pre-book add-ons via email and social networks and feature photos that show them what their results can look like!

6. WOM.

Most salon owners say that “word of mouth” is the best kind of marketing, and that referrals from friends and family of current clients are their best source of new clients. Rev up your referral marketing engine by offering rewards to your clients. Pique interest by adding a big prize to be awarded at summer’s-end in a special drawing.

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