Comments on: Lights out on 160 salons. Are you next? http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next Online marketing for spas, salons and massage therapists Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:17:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Not surprised http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-26071 Not surprised Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:55:24 +0000 http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-26071 The problem is not only mass expansion with Regis, but the inexperienced underpaid managers that run these salons multi division wide. These salons are filthy, not to state board standard and hire Just out of beauty school graduates. Regis Corp is the Wallmart of hair salons. Trade Secret has Phantom salons (salons with no stylists at all) Customer service is not a priority.. The problem is not only mass expansion with Regis, but the inexperienced underpaid managers that run these salons multi division wide.

These salons are filthy, not to state board standard and hire Just out of beauty school graduates. Regis Corp is the Wallmart of hair salons.

Trade Secret has Phantom salons (salons with no stylists at all) Customer service is not a priority..

]]> By: Seth Gardenswartz http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-23358 Seth Gardenswartz Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:01:35 +0000 http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-23358 <p>OK, Pamela, perhaps I have over shared. I generally visit a lovely independent cosmetologist who has been cutting my hair since high school. When she is booked (generally 6 weeks out) or I am in a pinch, I go to a great salon here in town who with several locations. However, if I'm having a "hair emergency," I have to do desperate things. Save me! Anyone who was in Scottsdale this weekend is welcome to vote on whether it was better to wait or take what I could get. I waited rather than subject myself to the unknown.</p> OK, Pamela, perhaps I have over shared. I generally visit a lovely independent cosmetologist who has been cutting my hair since high school. When she is booked (generally 6 weeks out) or I am in a pinch, I go to a great salon here in town who with several locations. However, if I'm having a "hair emergency," I have to do desperate things. Save me! Anyone who was in Scottsdale this weekend is welcome to vote on whether it was better to wait or take what I could get. I waited rather than subject myself to the unknown.

]]> By: JaxRox http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-23350 JaxRox Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:39:59 +0000 http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-23350 This article makes me wonder if we will see this same thing happen to Massage Envy as they continue to open up "clinics" in every neighborhood in town. ME big problem is the low pay ensures they mostly get mediocre massage therapists, with a smattering of good ones who will stay there for the money. There has been such a negative response from massage clients in my town, that the ME concept is now being copied by a man who owns 100s of tanning salons around the country. He's calling it Massage Luxe and his model will offer 3 levels of skilled therapist to choose from at 3 different price levels. Sort of like hair salons that offer junior and senior stylists at different price levels. It's supposed to be a step up in quality from Massage Envy, but from therapists I know who have already worked there, the office/desk staff are young "tanning type gals" who are not trained in the nuances of the massage world. Oh well, I guess it is all inevitable -- like Starbucks, Blockbuster, Netflix, and all the other cookie-cutter chains... some are good, some are not. But the big difference is most big chains are selling products, commodities, like videos, food, drink... massage and spas are mostly selling the hard, skilled labor of human beings and yet they treat the humans like commodities on the shelf... This article makes me wonder if we will see this same thing happen to Massage Envy as they continue to open up "clinics" in every neighborhood in town. ME big problem is the low pay ensures they mostly get mediocre massage therapists, with a smattering of good ones who will stay there for the money. There has been such a negative response from massage clients in my town, that the ME concept is now being copied by a man who owns 100s of tanning salons around the country. He's calling it Massage Luxe and his model will offer 3 levels of skilled therapist to choose from at 3 different price levels. Sort of like hair salons that offer junior and senior stylists at different price levels. It's supposed to be a step up in quality from Massage Envy, but from therapists I know who have already worked there, the office/desk staff are young "tanning type gals" who are not trained in the nuances of the massage world. Oh well, I guess it is all inevitable — like Starbucks, Blockbuster, Netflix, and all the other cookie-cutter chains… some are good, some are not. But the big difference is most big chains are selling products, commodities, like videos, food, drink… massage and spas are mostly selling the hard, skilled labor of human beings and yet they treat the humans like commodities on the shelf…

]]> By: Pamela http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-23328 Pamela Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:24:26 +0000 http://www.spaboomblog.com/2008/lights-out-on-160-salons-are-you-next#comment-23328 Seth, why do you get your haircuts at Supercuts? or your kids?!? Seth, why do you get your haircuts at Supercuts? or your kids?!?

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