The search is a technique, not a service
Balayage, colour correction, keratin, extensions, curly cuts. Each is a distinct search from someone who has already researched what they want, and a page called Colour matches none of them properly.
Salon website
Your best work has a shelf life of about eleven hours
Every colour, every transformation, every before and after goes up on a story and is gone by morning. A salon website is where some of it should stay.
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A price list, not a portfolio
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Balayage on dark brunette, Heights
The exact thing they searched
/houston/heights/balayage-brunette
40 looks published
Still findable next season
Clients pick a stylist, not a salon
Someone deciding where to get a balayage is looking for a person who has done that exact thing on hair like theirs. A salon site with a services list and a price grid tells them nothing. Twenty finished colours, each with the technique named, tells them everything.
Start your 14-day trialEvery look is a page you are giving away
You photograph nearly every finished client and it goes straight to a story that expires. Posting it somewhere permanent costs the same few seconds. Drag the slider to how many you post a week.
384 examples
of your work, ready for the next customer who looks you up
One page per look
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Month 12
A normal website
nothing new after launch
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A normal website
nothing new after launch
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Growth potential FOR Your Forxample site
1 page per postNew pages added since launch
384
pages / year
M1
32
M3
96
M6
192
M12
384
Three things that shape salons online
This trade produces more visual content than almost any other and converts less of it into search visibility than almost any other.
Start your 14-day trialHair type matters as much as the style
Fine, curly, coily, colour-treated, grey coverage. A client is looking for someone who has worked with hair like theirs, which is why one general gallery converts so poorly.
Stories expire, searches do not
The colour you posted last Tuesday is unreachable today. The same photo on its own page is still being found by someone searching that technique next spring.
The photo you already take, kept
Nothing changes about the routine at the chair. One copy of it just lands somewhere that does not expire overnight.
Photograph the finished look
The shot you were putting on a story anyway.
Name the technique and suburb
“Balayage on dark brunette, Heights.”
It goes to socials too
Same post, but one copy of it stays permanently.
What salon owners ask
Three that come up most, including whether a website is needed when the whole industry lives on Instagram.
Instagram is our entire marketing
And it works for the clients you already have. It does not reach the person who moved into the area last month and searched for a colourist, because they follow nobody yet. Those are the clients a site brings in.
Every stylist has their own following
That is a strength, and it is also why salons lose clients when a stylist leaves. Work published on the salon's own site stays with the salon, which is a quiet but real difference over a few years.
Clients would not want their photo online
Most are delighted, and hair photos rarely need a face at all. Back of head, side profile, or a crop that shows the colour and nothing identifying works perfectly well and is what most salons post anyway.
Stop giving your portfolio a bedtime
Forty looks a month, all of them gone by morning. Keep some of them somewhere they can still be found next year.
Start your 14-day trialFrequently asked questions
Can I post to my site and Instagram at once?
Yes, that is the intended workflow. Post the look once and it goes to your connected accounts as well, so nothing changes at the chair except that one copy stays permanently findable.
Should each stylist have their own section?
It works well if the salon has several. Clients frequently search for a specific stylist by name, and giving each one a place their work collects helps both the individual and the salon.
How do I handle photos when a client says no?
Ask at the chair and note the answer. Most say yes, and for those who do not there is usually a crop that shows the work without showing them. It is worth asking once rather than assuming either way.
Do I need to show prices?
A starting range by service helps, particularly for colour where clients assume the worst without a signal. Exact pricing is difficult since length and condition change everything, and most salons publish a from figure instead.
We rent chairs to independent stylists. Does that change anything?
It changes who owns the work. Agree upfront whether posts belong to the salon, the stylist, or both, because it becomes a real question when someone moves on.
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