12 Affiliate Salon Programs – Best Hair Brand Affiliates

What Are Affiliate Salon Programs?

Affiliate salon programs are a way for professional haircare brands to reward you the hairstylist and salon owners for recommending their products to your salon clients or website visitors.

With more salon brands selling directly to consumers, it may be time to rethink your retail game.

The days of big brands only selling their products to hair salons, which then sold the products to clients, were over.

With the online boom we have seen in the last few years with the likes of Amazon.com, Ulta, and Sephora, the professional haircare industry is now free for all.

If you, the salon owner, are to compete, it’s time to change your retail strategy.

Hair salons are adding e-commerce functionality to their websites where clients can purchase directly from manufacturers like Redken, Loreal, Amika, and many more, to mention later.

Does this mean tearing down your retail shelves and returning all your products to distributors?

No, not what I’m suggesting!

Right now, there is an excellent opportunity for hair salon owners and suite renters to maximize their retail sales both in-salon and online by adding affiliate salon programs to their revenues.

Hair Companies With Affiliate Program

Click on any of these links and apply them to one of your affiliate salon programs.

1. Redken, Matrix, Loreal, Biolage, and Mizani can sign
   1. up at hair.com to start your affiliate salon program.
   2. Aveda
   3. Alterna • Joico • Kenra Professional • PRAVANA • Schwarzkopf Professional • Sexy Hair • Zotos Professional signup at HELPYOURSALON
   4. Bumble & Bumble
   5. GHD
   6. Toni & Guy UK only
   7. Kerastase Paris
   8. Beachwaver
   9. T3 tools
   10. Verb
   11. Unite
   12. Framesi

   Don’t see your favorite professional hair salon products above?

   • Go to GOOGLE.COM and type in the search field <Product Name> + Affiliate
   • Go to the product company website, scroll to the bottom of the page, and look for an Affiliate salon program. Link the footer.

   It’s just that easy!

How Does Affiliate Salon Programs Work?

Big product companies like AVEDA have launched online affiliate salon programs where salon owners recommend specific products to clients.

Clients can go to your website and click on an affiliate link to the product you recommend. When they purchase, you will receive a commission.

Most brands will allow you to promote their products on your website and social media accounts.

There can be limitations and rules to follow, so check with each company’s guidelines.

The easiest way to promote products is by blogging. If you promote on your website, make sure to add your location.

Adding location will allow people in your area to find their favorite products and purchase them from you.

Set up an eCommerce shop on your website and add all the products you want to sell online.

You can add multiple brands, but be careful not to overdo it.

Stick with a trusted brand you genuinely love and recommend based on your professional opinion.

You can even sell styling tools like the Beachwaver and the Paul Mitchell appliances.

When you recommend the product or tool your clients need to maintain their hair at home, you will receive a commission directly from the manufacturer.

Some companies pay you up to 30% commission on each referral.

I know what you think is less than what you would make if you sold it in your salon, right?

Yes, it is, but you save on purchasing overstock, which can sit on shelves for months.

As a salon owner and hairdresser for over 30 years, I’m sad that hair product companies have decided to cross over into big-box retailers and Amazon sales.

What are we to do as business owners?

Are we to keep chasing companies that say they will never sell directly to consumers or traditional retail shops?

I promise you they will eventually go where the money is.

And honestly, who is to blame them?

Salon retail sales are down more than they have ever been.

We have divided the industry into multi-chair hair salons where hairstylists deem themselves as nonsales people.

Salon suite renters aren’t able to set up significant retail areas and, again, are not sales-motivated toward retail.

As hair pros, we are left with our favorite product lines to peddle their products elsewhere.

So, back to the question: should you start working with salon affiliate programs?

I say if you can’t beat them, join them.

Your clients need the products to maintain their hair at home.

When someone buys online, they feel like they are getting a good deal.

Let the product company do all the heavy lifting; all you have to do is continue to serve your customers and recommend the products you trust will be best for them.

How To Start Affiliate Salon Programs For Your Business

Okay, so maybe you are convinced that a product affiliate salon program is something you should try.

How do you start?

1. Sign up to be an affiliate with the professional haircare company of your choice.
2. While you wait for approval, have your web designer add an eCommerce function to your website.
3. Go to canva.com, sign up for an account, and start creating social-media artwork for Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.
4. Start writing blog posts and due reviews and recommendations, and add your affiliate links.
5. Share the blog post with your social media accounts and add the affiliate links to the description.
6. If you haven’t already, start email marketing. Include the blog post in your newsletter and the affiliate links in the email.
7. Talk to your clients in your chair about the products you recommend and suggest they visit your website shop where the affiliate links to the individual products are.
8. Rinse and repeat…

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