If you are not building a database (getting the name ,phone number and email address of your nail & hair clients and potential clients), I urge you to do so! If you're not , you're losing a lot of additional revenue you could get on top of what your already making! Let's talk more about email marketing......
Turning Your Database Into $ With Email Marketing
One of the best things you can do for your business is to build a database (email list) of all your clients and potential clients. As you begin to build this database, you'll find this list will become very valuable and profitable for you if you know how to use it correctly.
In turning your database into a very profitable list, your key goal will be to develop a relationship with the people in this list so they will come to trust you and look to you as an authority in your field of work. When people trust you and value your opinion, they listen to your advice and purchase products you recommend without worrying about being cheated or getting a bad product. They feel like they are buying from a friend rather than a stranger.
Using Email Marketing to Build a List of Loyal Clients that Buy From You Often
Since your goal will be to develop a relationship of trust with your list, you will need an effective way of keeping in touch with them and an effective relationship building strategy that will turn loyal followers into buying followers. So, how do you do this?
Email marketing makes keeping in touch with your clients and potential clients easy. We will talk more on how to get into email marketing later. To make your relationship building process effective, you should spend most of the time sending tips, advice, articles, and things that promote customer loyalty to your list. You always want to appear you are giving value. This way when you send out an email "asking them to buy something", they can see that you are not after them for their money, but truly trying to help them.
Why Email Marketing Works
A lot of beauty techs are losing tons money because they fail to follow up or follow up consistently with clients and potential clients. It usually takes several contacts with a person before they tune in to what you are saying or before they buy anything from you. This is what makes email marketing so valuable. It follows up with clients and potential clients often enough to make the sale and get them to tune in to you. It's not unheard of to generate $100's- 1000's of dollars monthly from a large mailing list!
Why Use Email Marketing:
1. Keeps your services fresh in the minds of clients that have busy lifestyles. So when they forget about you, your email reminds them about getting their nails done.
2. Send out weekly/monthly specials on manicure, pedicures, nail art, acrylic nails, hot new nail polish colors for the season, hot new products your using.... etc. Keeps clients coming back and spending money.
3. Send out incentives to refer others to you. Generate more clients.
4. Send out tips on keeping up nails and feet between visits..etc. Show your clients you care inside and outside of the nail/hair salon - creates client loyalty which equals long term clients.
5. Get clients you have not seen in a while to come back by offering discount offers.
6. Send out a coupon for a buddy to get a "service" when they come in with client. Generate more clients.
7. Market new products you may have. Such as spa treatments, Scented oils, skin care..etc. Generate additional income from none nail or hair services!
8. Increase the number of times clients buy from you - Increase your income.
9. Make money from those that may not never come in to see you.
10. Send out Thank you letters. .
11. Send out Birthday wishes.12. Send out Holiday wishes.
All these things help to build better client relations that Keep your clients and profits coming in for a very long time!
Getting Started with Email Marketing
Email Marketing can become a tedious task if done manually. Putting in emails and sending out emails can get time consuming. You also risk not following up in timely manner. To keep your list fresh and responding to you will mean following up often, so you do not "lose" them. I suggest getting email marketing software where you can automate the entire email process. This way you will not have to worry about not following up with your list in a timely manner, you set it up and kinda forget about it.
A great service to use is GetResponse or Aweber , these are the best email services out there today. These services are also called auto-responders. With these auto-responders you can load all your pre-written emails and let the responder follow up for you like clock work. You usually use these services in conjunction with your website or blog. Another option will be to have salon software like Client Keeper, that manages your database for you.
Everyone on your list should opt-in. As it protects you from spam complaints. Opt-in means, they have given permission for you to send them an email. You should not spam or send emails without permission, you will lose credibility and possibly your email account.
Email marketing has the potential to make you 1000's of dollars per month as your list grows to be very large. As you will see from other posts on this site, there are many ways to grow your list both online and offline to huge numbers!
Resource for Writing Effective Emails for Profit:
If by any chance you are not sure about how to write effective emails or how you should set your email campaign up, you can take a look at: Email Marketing for Salons and Spa's. This is an ebook you can purchase. I have taken a look at it and I give it about a B. What I did like about it is it gave a lot of example emails you can use as a template for your own campaigns. It talked about auto responders and the sequence you should send your emails out to your database. However, I think a complete newbie might not realize you can not use this ebook if you do not have a list to market too. So I'm telling you..you need a list to utilize the strategies in this ebook and in this article.
If you do not have a database of clients. Your doing your business more harm than good. Start that database A.S.A.P!
The ebook is $67 and if you want to check it out do so. If you do not like it return it for a refund. I just wanted to point you to a resource in the event you needed one that's targeted to the beauty industry. If you have any questions on this ebook ..send me an email at NailTechCash@live.com.
Thanks Beauty Techs!
Candace Harrison
If you were to lose your blog today you would have nothing to show for it, your advertisers won’t carry on paying and readers will quickly realise you no longer exist, however if you had an email list you would carry on making money.
Posted by: freelance graphic design jobs | August 01, 2011 at 06:33 PM
Building a good relationship with your clients and future clients would be a good move that could give a lot opportunity to earn a good amount of money. It really does need a lot of time and patience to be successful in this strategy.
Posted by: Ecommerce | August 13, 2011 at 06:55 AM
I am not sure if I am going to change my marketing strategies because it offered me less than my previous plans but I think after this I will.
Posted by: email marketing | January 02, 2012 at 04:46 PM