Business Tips

By Larissa Macleman, 16 Feb 2016

Salon Business Plan: Grow your salon revenue with SMART KPIs

If one of your goals this year is to grow your salon revenue, you need a Salon Business Plan.

By Team Timely, 24 Dec 2015

Thank you for an amazing year

This has been an amazing year for Timely and many of our customers in the Timely family. Thank you for all of your support. We have loved every minute of it. Here's why.

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 27 Oct 2015

4 Ways to Help Every Stylist Sell More Products

No one likes to be sold to, which can make increasing your salon product sales tricky. But if you teach your stylists to educate their clients, you'll have happier customers and higher sales.

By Larissa Macleman, 16 Oct 2015

How to Organise your Salon’s Social Media posts

When you're busy running a business, it can seem like too much hassle to post every day to Facebook or Instagram. But, it doesn't have to be a big deal. What you need is a plan!

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 28 Aug 2015

Stop wasting your time doing too much admin

It’s often said that 20% of the work gets you 80% of the results, but where does admin fit into that equation?

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 28 Aug 2015

Are you wasting time with your business admin?

Getting your business to run smoothly requires a lot of work behind the scenes, so it's no surprise that small business owners around the world spend 40% of their time on admin.

By Chris Sanders, 18 Aug 2015

Why it’s important to collect customer data

Imagine this scenario. Your salon needs a boost of new clients so you’ve spent hours of your time designing and writing an amazing direct marketing mailbox campaign, one that’s going to bring those customers through the door in their droves.

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 31 Jul 2015

10 things you should know about Timely

What do you know about the people who make your favourite booking software?

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 16 Jul 2015

How to attract more clients to your salon

At one point or another, every business owner will set out to grow the number of customers that walk through their doors each month.

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 30 Jun 2015

What do you do when friends ask you for freebies?

You wouldn't walk into a fashion store and expect to walk out with free clothes, so why do friends and family not get the idea?

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 24 Jun 2015

Mo money, mo products: How to sell out your salon’s products

Instead of just selling haircuts and beauty treatments, salons often turn to retail products as a way to keep their clients happy and increase profit margins.

By Alex Davies-Parmenter, 19 Jun 2015

To move salon, or not to move

Things change in business all the time, as they do in life. Sometimes what negatively affects one sector can be a boom for another.