Startup Idea: Software for Optimizing Salon and Spa Deal Advertising

Startup idea to develop a software, website, or app aimed at boosting salon and spa visibility to potential clients. Through this site, salons and spas can offer deals, set their own prices, and manage transactions, with a significantly less cut taken by the platform. It is a specialized digital marketing solution for beauty service businesses that offers greater control and earnings per deal compared to traditional deal platforms.

I am a licensed cosmetologist that has been working at the same salon over a year. Due to to the fact that we are a fairly new salon and a little off the beaten path, we have very few walk ins. Without those walk ins, my client base is very, very minimal. Websites like Groupon and Living Social offer ways for us to advertise through selling services at a discounted price, but unfortunately, my salon would onlyrics get back half of what the deal is sold for and I would get half of that, being that I am on commission. I would like some sort of software, website, or app that would either refer a customer to me if they were Go ogling salons or hair or another website like Groupon, but make the profit from the deals higher so that I wouldn't just be giving away my services and time. It would be nice to have one specifically for salons, spa, and nail salons only. Obviously therected would be competition on the website as in the real world, but it would bring people to all salons and would get the name out even to other salons. The prices should be set by the stylist or salon and the cut that the site should get should be around 20-25% at most, because that can still be a great deal when a deal can be sold for $100. Additional discounts, like 20% off specials that Groupon runs, should be either allowed or not by the salon or stylist, not the managers of the site. We should also be able to draw those funds that are from the paid deals as soon as we need them, because we must sometimes go and buy hair color, new chemicals, or products ahead of time before the clients appointment time. In other words, a better version of Groupon, but for salons and spas only.