The ground breaking SalonGeek.com is the largest on-line community of beauty professionals and home to over 25,000 nail, beauty and hair professionals across the globe. With an average of 400 public posts a day, SalonGeek.com now boasts over 1,000,000 public posts (and almost as many private messages!). SalonGeek.com is a constant hive of professional activity with an average of 120 visitors on-line at any given time
- Geeks have the ears of the editors! Trade magazines frequently use SalonGeek.com to gain various opinions on serious nail issues.
- Geeks get access. Professional companies use Salongeek.com as a platform and communication device for their customers, enabling them to give out-of-hours customer service and to stay in touch with their customers' changing demands.
- Geeks Succeed! Students use Salongeek.com to print off tutorials to help them pass exams such as NVQ & VTCT.b
- Geeks give. Nail stylists use Salongeek.com to exhibit their work and to gain feedback to create better nails.
- Geeks are models. SalonGeek.com is looked at by other industry forums as a model for how to design and run an on-line community.
- Geeks are proactive. For the first and largest UK industry related government survey; 99% took part on-line and virtually all were from SalonGeek.com.
Whatever the industry needs - SalonGeek.com has it nailed!
Samuel Sweet, creator and mastermind behind SalonGeek.com is more than proud of the success of the site and the impact it has had on the industry.
"I just did something I had always wanted to do - to create a place where professionals could help, share and inspire one another. The fact that SalonGeek.com has become a mammoth global movement isn't down so much to the way it's been done, but rather down to the endless well of passion that professionals have for their industry. It's pretty moving really."
A few random quotes from site members:
My knowledge has expanded immensely since I found this site. There is such a wealth of experience here. On the site you have a great mix of 'newbies' and the 'top Greats' and they work side by side with each other. No expressions of grandeur from the 'top greats' they treat you as an equal, and that is wonderful and it is incredible to be able to draw from their huge experience.
I'm on the other side of the pond, and not even in a metro area (2 hours) I'm able to keep on top of trends, see what's happening in the world, get motivation when I'm struggling and share a laugh when I need it - Jeni Giles USA
The site is genius. GMG, for having the vision and dedication to create it is also a genius. To me, it has irrevocably changed our industry for the better and helped to put it on the upward turn that it needed. Despite some people's misgivings, it really is unbiased and continues to be. I wish more people from other areas of the industry would see it for what it is. Long may it reign - Mum aka Marian Newman
The site has won "Web Site of the Month - Sept 07", Samuel Sweet himself has won "Coder of the Month - Sept 07" via off-site companies that use Samuel's techniques to enhance their own sites, and most recently SalonGeek.com won Scratch Magazines "Stomp Award" in March 2008!!
