There are no excuses and no shortcuts to success with in-salon experience enhancing music. Many customers will be in your salon for extended periods, some hours if they are having extensions, or colouring for example. So, for example how many surprise tracks, how many repeats, is too many? Not only that, but customers may be returning pretty regularly; do you want them to keep hearing the same music week after week, month to month? Creating in-store music for Debenhams or River Island is one thing, but in a salon environment you have the customer necessarily (and sometimes literally) captive – for some hours – so listening to the music will inevitably be the central focus for some of that time! A handy guide to dos and don’ts with your Salon music: DON’T: Just plug in Spotify / a CD / an iPod - you risk a fine from the PRS/PPL inspections. Take a look at the following link to make sure you listen to your music legally: Warning – streaming services; what you need to know DON’T: Have less than three hours before a track repeats DON’T: Use unreleased, untested…
