More than a year after opening my business, I was contacted by a website that introduced salons focusing on healing, asking, “Would you like to introduce your salon at ours?” I was contacted by a website that introduced salons focusing on healing.
At that time, there were still really few salons that had created their own websites, and searching for stores on referral websites was beginning to become the norm.
We didn’t even know what kind of site it was, so we decided to have them come in and talk to us.
The sales person who came was still a young woman.
I remember that most of the salons listed on the site were esthetic and other massage type salons, and there were few healing salons like ours.
The saleswoman politely explained the contents of the site, the system, and the annual fees, etc. Since the site itself had been in operation for less than two years at that time, and the listing fee was not that high, I decided to try listing it once.
I told them I would sign the contract later, and at that time they took a few photos to put on the site, and within two weeks of signing the contract, I was featured on the search site.
Looking back, this referral site was the only time I spent money on advertising the salon outside of events.
And I remember that I put it on this referral site for only two years, I think.
However, I will write more about why it was only for two years in the future.
