Salon Boss
PricingFrom $1,000/mo — no games
Why Salon Boss

Only beauty. Since 2017.

Marketing built exclusively for beauty businesses — so the strategy actually fits how clients find and book you.

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Hair Salon Marketing Agency

Stay Behind the Chair.We’ll Handle the Rest.

Salon Boss is a full-service marketing agency built exclusively for the beauty industry. We handle the websites, the SEO, the social media, the ads, and the content — so you can stay behind the chair and do what you do best.

You’ve Built Something Special.But Online, Nobody Can Tell.

The Veteran

15–25 years in

You’ve been doing this for 15, 20, 25 years. You have a loyal client base. People love you. But your website looks like it was built in 2015, your social media is inconsistent, and when someone Googles “hair salon near me,” you’re nowhere. Meanwhile, the salon that opened last year with half your experience is showing up everywhere because they have better marketing. Not better work — better marketing.

“She was with me for 10 years… at this point, kind of reputation-wise surpassed me.”

— Melanie, salon owner

We’ve heard every version of this story. And we know exactly what to do about it.

The Problem Isn’t Marketing.It’s that your last agency didn’t understand salons.

Most agencies take any client who walks in. To them, your salon is just another line on the calendar. They don’t know a balayage from a blowout, and it shows.

A generalist never learns
Before-and-afters book clients. Product shots don’t.
Clients find you through local “near me” search.
Your site has to sell the experience, not a price list.

We work with salons. Only salons. Nobody else.

We know how your clients search, what makes them book, and what makes them stay.

Their Clients
General Agency
Dentist
Roofer
Law Firm
Plumber
Auto Shop
Your Salon
You’re one of manyBalayage? Blowout? No idea.
Our Clients
Salon Boss
Luxe Salon & Spa
The Color Room
Kosa Salon
Cachet Salon Suites
WolfHaven Hair
Salons. Only salons.That’s it.

Everything Your Salon Needs.One Team.

Every service is designed for this industry. We don’t repurpose what we did for a law firm and slap your logo on it.

Your Next Client Won’t Google You.They’ll Ask AI.

More people skip the search bar and just ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini who the best salon is. We make sure the answer is you, not the salon down the street.

Optimized for ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini

We engineer the signals these assistants read, so your salon is the name they surface when clients ask.

Reviews and content AI actually trusts

Detailed, recent reviews and answer-shaped content that name your specialty and your city.

An AI visibility score, in plain English

Monthly snapshots that show exactly how often AI is recommending you, and where you're gaining ground.

AI Assistant
Listening
Local prospect

Thinking…

Citations
127 Reviews
Authority
#1 Local
Specialty
Color & Balayage
Recommended across

While You’re Doing Great Hair,your competition is doing great marketing.

This is what clients see when they compare you to the salon down the street. Not your work. Your online presence.

The salon down the street
Your salon (today)
Website
Custom, fast, mobile-optimized
Template site from 2019
Google / SEO
Top 3 across your whole zip code
Only shows up at your address
Social Media
3–4x/week, professional content
Last post was 3 weeks ago
Reviews
4.9 stars, 200+ reviews
4.3 stars, 28 reviews
Paid Ads
Running targeted local campaigns
Boosted a post once
Content
Professional photo & video
iPhone photos in bad lighting

The salon getting your clients isn’t more talented. They don’t have a bigger team.

They just have better marketing. And that’s fixable.

Matt Peters-Mejia, Founder of Salon Boss
Matt Peters-Mejia

A Decade in the Beauty Industry.Here’s why I built Salon Boss.

I grew up in a salon. One of my parents was a stylist in Long Beach, and I spent more hours in that back room than I can count: sweeping up hair, waiting for color to process, listening to clients talk about their lives. As a kid, it was the most boring place in the world. I couldn’t wait to leave.

Life brought me back. In 2013 I started consulting for a hair extension brand and found myself in salons again, this time seeing them differently. The owners and stylists I met were incredibly talented. They could transform someone’s look and build a loyal clientele on pure skill. But when it came to marketing, they were completely on their own.

So they’d hire a local agency that also worked with dentists, plumbers, and law firms. They’d get a generic website that could have belonged to anyone, ads with stock photos, copy that said nothing about what made them special. A few months of burned budget later, they’d give up and go back to walk-ins and referrals.

I built Salon Boss to be different. One industry. One focus. Real expertise.

We’re not the biggest agency, and we don’t want to be. Today we work with over 200 beauty businesses, and every strategy we build is designed for this industry and nothing else. I still lead every discovery call myself.

All We Need Is 60 Minutes.We Handle the Rest.

Getting started with Salon Boss is simple. You spend an hour telling us about your salon. From there, we build the strategy, do the work, and keep you in the loop, so you can stay behind the chair.

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01 / The Call

A 60-Minute Call

We hop on a call to learn about your salon, your goals, and where you stand today. We’ll pull live reports on your Google rankings so you can see the opportunity for yourself. That call is the only thing we ever need from you.

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02 / The Plan

Your Custom Strategy

We build a plan around your market, your competition, and your services. Never a template, never recycled from another salon. You approve it, and we get moving.

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03 / The Work

We Get to Work

Design and SEO start within the first week, and most salons have a new site live in about four to five weeks. While we build, you stay behind the chair doing what you do best.

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04 / The Partnership

An Ongoing Partnership

Regular check-ins, clear monthly reports, and a team that actually picks up the phone. You’ll always know what we’re doing and what it’s driving for your salon. No set-it-and-forget-it.

Questions Salon OwnersAsk Us.

Real answers from real discovery calls. No jargon, no dodges.

Matt, Founder of Salon Boss
Matt · Founder
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Still have questions?

Every salon is different. Book a free discovery call and we'll talk through your situation, your goals, and exactly what you need. No pressure.

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Our programs start at around $1,000/month depending on what your salon needs. We include your website in our SEO program, with no separate $5,000–10,000 website fee. We’ll build a custom proposal on your discovery call based on what actually makes sense for your situation.

The Salon Boss Edge: We know you’re running a business with real margins. We price accordingly.
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You Built the Salon.Let Us Build the Marketing.

You went to school for this. You spent years perfecting your craft. You built a team, designed a space, created an experience your clients love. The marketing? That was never supposed to be your job. Let’s talk about where your salon is right now, where you want it to be, and what it’ll take to get there.

No Long-Term Contracts