GlowdayPRO Blog
Business advice, marketing tips and news for aesthetics practitioners.
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Disappointed Patients & How To Avoid Them
That amazing feeling, where immediately after a treatment, the delight your patient experiences is so obvious it give you immediate satisfaction of a job done well.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes, treatments disappoint.
Here are six reasons patients can be disappointed with their treatments and how to avoid them.
Is Premium Pricing right for your aesthetics business?
The idea behind premium pricing is to cultivate a sense of your products or services being better than the rest in the market. What “better than” means depends on your ideal patients. This helps you to maximise your revenue with a client base for whom price is not the most important factor when choosing a practitioner.
Is Your Brand Boring & Bland?
The goal of creating a brand is to differentiate your business from your competitors and create a lasting impression in the minds of your customers. Yet, many aesthetic business owners end up following the crowd, blending in, rather than standing out.
How does GlowdayPRO work?
Wondering how GlowdayPRO works for you and your patients? Here’s a video showing you just how easy to use GlowdayPRO is.
How Much Will I Earn Doing Botox?
What’s your most profitable treatment? Here’s a handy calculator to figure out the margins on your treatments…is it Botox? Or microneedling? Maybe a simple chemical peel?
Check out this handy calculator to work out your treatment margins.
How Much Does It Cost To Run An Aesthetics Clinic?
The costs of running a clinic aren’t to be underestimated.
Whether you have a converted room in your home, a bespoke garden room, rent a room in a salon or have your own clinic space, there are costs associated with opening the doors each day.
Check out this handy calculator to work out how much it costs to run an aesthetics clinic.
Ways to Grow Your Aesthetics Business
You’re a couple of years into running your own aesthetics business, and you’re not sure what to do next.
Here’s a summary of a few different routes practitioners typically take when they grow their businesses.
How do I market my aesthetics business?
In the absence of you being able to meet and greet every potential patient, patients use heuristics - mental shortcuts - to make decisions about whether you’re the right practitioner for them. The conclusion they come to when viewing and appraising these heuristics determines whether you’ve made it onto their consideration list, and ultimately, whether they book you.
So, how do you demonstrate that you’re an expert, trustworthy practitioner, who will deliver amazing results, without causing harm, all through a phone screen?
Social Media Marketing For Aesthetic Practitioners
There’s no denying that having a presence on social media is important for aesthetic practitioners. But there’s also no denying that creating content, posting and engaging takes time and effort…that’s where out Monthly Content Bundles help!
A month’s worth of social posts, for you to edit, re-brand and post.
How is GlowdayPRO different to ANS?
I get asked this alot.
The primary difference between GlowdayPRO and pretty much all other booking/patient record systems is that GlowdayPRO does all the things needed to keep your bookings and records in order, but it has been built to make marketing your aesthetics business easier.
We know that sorting forms and documentation is annoying, but it’s not going to make or break your business.
What will is your ability to market you, your services and your business appropriately.
Starting Your Aesthetics Business - Part Five - Establish Processes & Systems
Many practitioners start their businesses with their phone calendar, WhatsApp, bank transfers and pen and paper forms. Whilst it’s a good idea to keep things lean when you start up any business, there are fundamental things that are needed to succeed - processes, systems and automations being crucial.
Understanding your patient journey and putting into place necessary automations BEFORE you begin to market your aesthetics business is an important step that will allow you to focus on marketing your business, rather than spending your time on low value admin tasks that could easily be automated.
Starting Your Aesthetics Business - Part Four - Find & Enforce Your Boundaries
Knowing your personal and professional boundaries, communicating them clearly to your patients and enforcing them will help you achieve a version of work/life balance that works for you and prevent you from becoming resentful and burnt out.
Read on to discover how to find, communicate and enforce your boundaries.
Starting Your Aesthetics Business - Part Three - Know Your Numbers
Many practitioners set their prices by looking at what their nearest competitors are charging…but this is ALL WRONG!
Understanding your costs BEFORE you begin to market your aesthetics business is a critical, but often missed, step to building a successful aesthetics business. Read on for how to figure out your costs to inform your pricing.
Starting your Aesthetics Business - Part Two - Sort Out You Brand
Many practitioners think branding = logo + colours, but it is so much more than that.
Defining your brand BEFORE you begin to market your aesthetics business is a critical, but often missed, step to building a successful clinic.
Read on for how to create your aesthetics business brand.
Starting Your Aesthetics Business - Part One - Who are your customers?
How do you market your aesthetics business? Well, before you jump headfirst into Instagram, or Google Paid ads…STOP! You need some foundations in place BEFORE you begin to build your business.
Here’s the FIRST thing you need to do…know WHO you’re trying to attract…
How Do I Market My Aesthetics Business?
Not sure where to get started with marketing your aesthetics business? Struggling to figure out where to spend your time?
Here’s an introduction to marketing for aesthetic practitioners.
Clinic Quiet? 20 Things To Do
“My clinic is quiet!?” “I’ve never been so quiet!?” “Is it just me, or is everyone quiet?”
I hear aesthetic practitioners say things like these often. And often they then go bonkers posting on Instagram to try to drum up some bookings. If this sounds like you, you need to read this…
“The Aesthetic Industry is Saturated”
“There’s too much competition”
“The market is saturated”
“I can’t compete with non-med pricing”
Are you even an aesthetic practitioner if you’ve never thought these things?!?
Read on to find out how to assess your competition and manage that monkey on your shoulder!
Boost Your Aesthetics Business with Professional Photography
Great, professional photography get 7x more views, 25% more bookings and generate 40% more revenue than those with poor, shoddy photography.
If you’ve not invested in amazing photos for your business, you’re missing out.
VAT and Medical Aesthetics
Should you pay VAT on your Botox? Are confused about VAT in medical aesthetics? Not sure what the rules are?
In this article, we will cover what VAT is, how it applies to medical aesthetic treatments, how to keep accurate records and what could happen if you’re not compliant.

