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Salon Marketing, Reduced To One Thing A Week.

Stop wondering what to do next. Salty Carbs builds your website and the digital foundation underneath it, then walks you through a proven weekly plan, so you spend less time figuring out digital marketing and more time with clients.

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The weekly Salty Carbs email, with content ideas written for one business

A real weekly email, from a massage therapist's account. Yours is written from your own services.

You do not have a marketing problem. You have an order problem.

You already know the list. Post more. Get reviews. Fix the website. Claim the Google listing. Email past clients. Run something for the slow weeks.

The list is not wrong and it is not short, and every article about salon marketing ideas hands you another twenty. None of them tell you which one to do on a Tuesday in February with forty minutes free.

So the list sits there, and the weeks go by, and the ones that would have compounded never get started.

Twenty ideas is not a plan. One thing a week, in the right order, is.

What you actually get.

A weekly Salty Carbs content idea email

A marketing plan for your salon, written for your salon.

Not a template and not a downloadable checklist. A week-by-week plan built from your services, your city and where you actually are right now, presented one or two cards at a time so it never reads as homework.

Each card says what to do, how long it takes, and why it matters, so you finish the year knowing how this works rather than having followed instructions.

This week, not someday.

One or two things that matter right now, not twenty that matter eventually. Five to twenty minutes each. The rest of the plan stays out of your way until it is its turn.

Weekly content ideas.

Post ideas written for your services and your voice, delivered every week. This is the part of social media for salons that actually stops people: the empty box.

Reviews, asked for properly.

Who to ask, when, and the exact words to send. Nobody can outsource asking your own clients, so the plan makes it take four minutes instead of feeling like begging.

Your Google profile, set up right.

Google, Apple and Bing, with the same details everywhere so they trust you are one real business. Done with you, in the right order, not left as a task called "do SEO".

And the website underneath it.

A professional website, hosted, live in minutes, with a page per service. It is included because a marketing plan with nowhere to send people is not a plan.

Real human support.

Practical, plain-English guidance from Chip Evans, a 30-year marketing veteran. If you get stuck you talk to a person, not a ticket queue.

Twenty ideas is not a plan. This is a plan.

The plan builds five things, in this order.

Every trustworthy local business ends up building the same handful of things. Most people build them in the wrong order, which is why the effort does not compound.

1

Home Base

Your website. The one thing you own, and the place all roads lead back to.

2

On the Map

Your Google, Apple, and Bing profiles, so nearby clients find you when they search.

3

Trusted

Your reviews. The proof that turns someone looking into someone booking.

4

Known

The same details everywhere online, so Google and AI trust you're real.

5

Alive

A steady presence that shows your business is active, open, and worth choosing.

What this costs against the alternatives.

A marketing agency is $1,000 to $3,000 a month and runs on a retainer call. A freelancer is $50 to $150 an hour and needs managing. A course is $500 once and then you are on your own with it.

This is $50 a month and runs on one card a week. It is not the same service as an agency. It is the version that makes sense before you have the revenue to justify one.

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Would you rather just ask someone?

You do not have to sign up to find out whether this fits. Tell us what you do and where you are, and we will tell you honestly whether Salty Carbs is the right answer for you or whether something else is.

A real person reads these and answers. No sales sequence, no autodialer.

Good questions.

No, and that difference is the whole product. A list of salon marketing ideas gives you twenty things and no order. This gives you the one or two that matter this week, in the order that makes each one work, and it does the parts that are setup rather than effort.
You open the portal and there is one card. Ask four clients for a review. Or claim your Apple Maps listing. Or post this, and here is what to say. Five to twenty minutes, and it tells you why it matters so you are learning rather than following instructions.
Both, split by what can honestly be automated. Your website, your Google, Apple and Bing profiles, your service pages and the technical signals are done for you. Asking your own clients for reviews is not something anyone can outsource, so for that you get the words to send and the week to send them.
It gives you post ideas every week, written for your services and your voice, so you are not staring at an empty box. It does not post for you and it will not pretend a posting schedule is a marketing plan.
The plan covers when to reach out to past clients and what to say. It is not a bulk email tool, and if a mailing list is genuinely your next step we will tell you that and point you at one rather than sell you ours.
Ask us. If your site is working, the plan and the foundation around it are still most of the value, and we will say so honestly. If it is not working, you will hear that too.
An agency costs $1,000 to $3,000 a month and runs on a retainer call. This is $50 a month and runs on one card a week. It is not the same service. It is the version that makes sense before you have the revenue to justify the other one.

Not quite what you do?

It is the same website and the same weekly plan underneath. What changes is the words, the services it starts you with, and the photos.

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