What to do with the silence after How much is this hair?

What to do with the silence after How much is this hair?

How much is this hair?

That’s sounds like the beginning of a great deal. But many times there is only follows … silence.

Last month I spoke a very nice woman who had quite a number of followers on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. She was able to start the conversation, she received a lot of inquiries and requests for the price of the hair. But hardly any sales. It was clear something was missing.

It was a bit frustrating, to put it mildly, to post a great picture of the hair or a happy client, to get shares, a lot of xx and comments like: Love this and How much is this hair? She replied to everybody, but after that there was silence, no response, no purchase, no thank you.

Why there is silence after How much is this hair?

This is for a great part because how the human brains work, our brain is trained to keep an eye and ear open for things that might be interesting for us. In the beginning of mankind it was the best way to find the fruit that was ripe. Your ancestors walked through the forest and while they talked about family affairs they picked the fruit. But only the ripe ones.

Today our brains still work the same way. Your ideal client watches Real Housewives of Atlanta checks her iPhone and talks with her best friends. Then she sees what she likes, your hair. She responds right away; she likes your hair or she post the question: How much is this hair. Because this is what she is thinking of.

 

How Much Is This Hair

You answer her the moment you read her comment. The more hours between her placing the comment and your response the more unlikely she will answer.

Tip number one:

Keep your eyes on your social media and try to answer swiftly. If possible right away or within 5 minutes.

We all know there are more pictures on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest of hair then fish in the sea. So big change after your gorgeous hair pictures your client has seen other pictures. She might forget you! So now you have to make her see your pictures, more often. Your pictures, your brand name, and your offer. You have to make her return to your account. You already have an advantage, she knows who you are, so let’s keep the conversation going.

Tip number two:

Do her a favor. Like a recent picture or post and leave a kind and honest comment. You are in the business of making people look and feel good, and this is your first chance to make a person you never met before to feel good.

Now you have a relation

Now the two of you are connected, the chance she will respond has increased significantly. This is great and you should keep the relation warm, but because you are in business you have to be efficient too. You can’t spend hours on social media to like, and comment. You have a business to run.

This is the time to automate your relation to work towards a happy client! From How much is this hair to thanks for receiving the hair I love it!

Leave a comment if you want to know how, I will email you with the answer!

How not to lose your clients if you leave Mayvenn

How not to lose your clients if you leave Mayvenn

How not to lose your clients if you leave Mayvenn

Mayvenn is a distribution organisation, like Pure Remy and some others. You can sell hair extensions using the website, marketing support and hair of the distributor. But who benefits from your effort and what if your hair business is ready to grow to the next level? If you want a hair business with 100% of the profit for you!

Distributors to start your business

For some hair resellers, organisations like Mayvenn and Pure Remy are a great start for your business. These organisations do take away a lot of work for start-ups and companies.

 

  • They provide the hair,
  • organize the marketing campaigns,
  • set the price,
  • decide what you can earn and
  • have rules about even the design of your website.

Nothing wrong to give away your freedom to start selling hair, but one of the beautiful things to start a business is that you can decide what your market, your potential customers need. Because if not, it’s better to work for a boss and get paid per hour. Less uncertainty for a higher amount. I see many women using the distributorship to start to build experience in selling hair extensions and to start with a small investment.

Grow your hair business in Mayvenn

But some of them Mayvenngrow their franchise very well, more and more clients who love and like the store owner and her products. We all know the relation between buyer and seller, especially in the hair and beauty industry is very important, if not crucial. Your name is important; people will remember your name if they want to buy hair again.

But if you are a distributor you are limited to the freedom you have to use your own name, or name of the brand you want to grow. No problem if you want to stay with Mayvenn or Pure Remy for ever, but a big hurdle if you want grow bigger. If you leave the organisation, you will also leave your name, your url, that is the path on internet to your store, behind.

Mayvenn for ever?

This means you can never leave Mayvenn without starting from scratch again? If you start your own business you will have to contact all your clients and inform them about the new store. Bear in mind the risk some will not understand the message and stay behind?

Grow bigger thanks to Mayvenn or Pure Remy

There is a solution to make sure you will always benefit from the time, money and effort you put in creating a well-recognized name in the market.
All the time you sold hair and build up a name in this business you can take with you if you decide to start.

All you need is from the first day you start as distributor, or as fast as possible if you already started, to register own domain name.
Set up your own website to start and make a link to you Mayvenn store. In the beginning focus on your distributorship, but over time grow your own full website, with happy clients, testimonials and a blog perhaps. Get more traffic and sell using Mayvenn, or Pure Remy, or any other distributor.

How to start your own hair product line

Keep all your clients for yourself and not to Mayvenn

By doing so you build up a brand name using a website and domain that is fully owned by you. The day you want to stop as distributor and to earn all the money for yourself, the Mayvenn site will stop and you plug in your own store module.
This is a win win, because in the beginning it will be an extra site to drive traffic to your Mayvenn store and later you can be 100% your own boss without losing clients. You do not even have to inform your clients about the change.

So start selling thanks to a distributor like Mayvenn and keep your client base with a store of your own.

Feel free to contact me how this can work for you, or claim your domain right now!


 

Don’t lose your hair business due to an email hack

Don’t lose your hair business due to an email hack

Don’t lose your hair business due to an email hack

You run a great hair business on social media, with a growing flow of visitors who rather often leave a comment. This is fun hair business; you only wish you had more sales. But you know this will come over time. Do not hurry the hair business.
Suddenly from one day to the other you get less comments, the number of visitors decline and your sales fall! What has happened to your hair business?

hair business

Most probably your hair business has been hacked.

What might cause this?

Do you use a @yahoo.com, @hotmail or @gmail.com account for example, but no business account?
Do you place the name of your hair store on the left side of the address name? For example, besthairshopatlanta@yahoo.com?

If you said yes to these two questions, I recommend you to read further to keep your hair business.

You can’t hide your success

If your hair business is doing well, and that is easy to see for everybody because you will have nice comments and a lot of inquiries on the social media. You can’t hide your success. As a matter of fact you want others to see you’re are doing well. This is the best way to grow your business.
If you have a growing number of followers, but you still use a non-corporate email address, big chance somebody will benefit from your success and steal your traffic and thus your clients.

How can somebody steal my clients?

It’s very easy for the competition to steal your clients, or at least to take away the traffic you generate with all your effort. All the competition has to do is:

  1. to register a new domain
  2. with your besthairshopatlanta name, or any other name
  3. publish a website that has the same
  4. design
  5. logo and
  6. colors of your brand and

people searching on the internet for your brand will end up…. in the webstore of the competition.
That’s an easy way of doing business for very little money, and you did all the work.

For very little money you can protect your own business

Unless it is your intention to help others grow their hair store, protect your own store and claim a domain. Be smarter than others and register your domain, for 50 dollar or less you can already protect the business you have built up so carefully the last years.

You can wait until it somebody steals your clients, or protect your name, brand, and clients now!

You can change the Mission of How To Sell Hair Extensions

You can change the Mission of How To Sell Hair Extensions

My Mission, to make dreams come true!

Nearly five years ago I started How to Sell Hair Extensions, with the mission to support women all over the world to become financially independent. To make their dream come true, to be able to invest in their own future and the well-being of their loved ones.

My Inspiration, you!

Daily I speak with many women and every time I get emotionally touched and inspired by their story.
From single mothers who try to set up a business, while they have one or two day-time jobs. University students who want to pay for their school fees by selling hair. Mothers who love their daughters so much they pay the start-up cost. Girls from Africa with beautiful dreams to sell hair extensions to make it a better world for all of us.

And there are many, many others examples of people who all deserve to get their change to start a hair business. People who do not have too much money. The money they have is needed to buy hair extensions. They always ask for the smallest possible inventory, but fear the pain to say no to a client because they ran out of stock.Mission Sell Hair Extensions

My free support

My mission with How to Sell Hair Extensions has always been to keep the money they need to invest to start and grow their business as small as possible. The website is full of stories and educational material for free. The same goes for the newsletter. Many other supporting material is available for not only little money, also with extra tools and support to help to earn money as fast as possible.

Mission Sell Hair Extensions

Mission Sell Hair Extensions

My dream, more people start own hair business

I am very excited to see the astonishing growth of interest to start a hair business from countries in Africa and South America for example. Countries that originally headed the list of countries with the highest numbers of start-ups in hair business, now risk to be overtaken by other countries. Kenya in the east of Africa for example already shows more activity then Nigeria. The online hair business is booming and more women start their own website.

My problem, how to keep on supporting for free

This growth also means more women who can become financially independent, but also a growing number of women with a smaller budget to start their own business. The demand for free advice is growing and this sometimes conflicts with the available resources of How to Sell Hair Extensions.

Thus, this success asks for a change to avoid I have to stop with this field of How to Sell Hair Extensions. I want to help as many people as possible, and I want to continue with How to Sell Hair Extensions with the goal to help many others for free or only a little investment.

My question to you, help me!

I will start to work on this change of the business model to continue my mission of How to Sell Hair Extensions. For example, to offer more interesting deals from other companies, to start with premium advertisements for hair stores, all with you, the client focus on top. This all be part of my “Change How to Sell Hair Extensions Project”. And I need your help to make this happen in a way you will be benefit most of it.

Do you have any suggestions or ideas, I could implement to continue my mission of How to Sell Hair Extensions, please let me know. I will show you my appreciation by telling the whole world about you! Or perhaps we can do business together. Please share your suggestions by email, social media or in the comment below this post, thank you!

Become a beauty expert, impress your clients and earn more

Become a beauty expert, impress your clients and earn more

Become a beauty expert

It’s said many times, expertise sells. If you are a beauty expert you will not only understand the needs of your customers better, you can advise them better and they will trust you more. More trust means more happy people and thus higher sales. Higher sales without competing on price means more profit for you!

How to become the beauty expert

Beauty is about the complete picture. You cannot look gorgeous if the nails are perfectly done, but the hair is hopeless. So if you advise your potential clients on how to look and feel beautiful, you differentiate yourself from the others selling hair only.

Train yourself in the fields of beauty, this can be hair, nails or makeup. Know how to deal with different skin tones, be different because you add hair care products to your service offering. Great ways to not only service your clients better, great ways to compete on expertise instead of price.

Keep your margins high

If you only offer hair extensions, your potential client will only see the price of the hair. They will compare the price with other stores. People like to negotiate, and because you only sell a product they want to talk the price down.

How different if you are a beauty expert. Now you are no longer only selling a product, hair extensions. You sell an experience, you sell knowledge and confidence. Your client will get a true bundle deal, not three bundles of 14, 16 and 18 inch. No, you offer a top bundle of hair extensions, professional advice and thus you make the client feel comfortable. Now your client will no longer discuss the price, but the treatment you are going to offer. This means higher profit margins.

Easy to sell expertise

Follow a course on nails, make up or cosmetic or hair care products, there are online training’s so you can educate yourself at the time and speed you can afford. Watch your expertise grow and use this to service your visitors and clients.

A few example trainings:

Scenting in Soap making

Everything you need to know to scent your soaps effectively.

Learn all about how to use various essential oils and fragrances in your soap, including how to combine scents for your own custom blends. Add personalized beauty products to your service offering.

Master the Art of Makeup on Global Skin Tones

Learn how to master the art of professional makeup application on global skin tones by Celebrity Makeup Artist Shalini

In this course you will learn all the secrets to applying your makeup or your client’s makeup like a professional celebrity makeup artist on multiple skin tones and ethnicities. Understand the needs all colors of skin and broaden your market.

 

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Eye & Lash Art

Advance your makeup artistry using bold color, layering textures, using homemade artistic lashes and artistic effects.

There is so much in the world to inspire the work of an artist. As a makeup artist, sometimes we want to get beyond the basics of pretty beauty makeup and expand our viewpoint with a more creative and artistic perspective. Thankfully, there are so many tools, both cosmetic and non-cosmetic that allow us to take a walk on the wild side at times and unleash the giant within us. In this course we invite you to free your mind and take an artful approach to your makeup application. Use your own vision and unique makeup personality to create looks that are unique to you and the energy you bring to the world of makeup.

Homemade Skincare: Ultimate Care for Anti-Aging & Dry Skin

How to make DIY, easy, effective, natural home remedies for anti-aging & dry skin care including sun damaged skin

Start you own anti aging brand

Add a new group of clients to your ideal clients, combine expertise on hair loss and other aging related consequences. Become different with a focus on the fastest growing client group.

PROMO CODE 15B2SCHOOL and get $ 15 off Udemy trainings (valid till sept 13th)

There are so many benefits to creating your own facial skincare you’ll wonder why you didn’t start sooner! It’s easier than you think and anyone can do it. This course gives you all the skills you need to create a complete homemade facial skincare regimen.
You will learn detailed information about making, using and storing your skincare creations including cleansers, steam, mask, toner and moisturizer. You will also learn what else you can do for ultimate beauty and radiant health.

 

Do not forget to adapt the style of your website too, your marketing message should change from product pushing to messages about beauty expert or consultancy. Make sure to increase your price, you are worth it now!