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The first decision on a salon campaign is that not a yen goes outside your catchment. Rather than joining the discounting, we shift the budget towards the reason people ask for you by name.
Meta
Instagram
TikTok
Numbers
5.9% drop
The market is shrinking, and it's client numbers
Year-on-year change in the 1.3063 trillion yen salon market in 2025. Average spend per visit by women, at 7,686 yen, is up 0.2%
Recruit Hot Pepper Beauty Academy, Beauty Census H1 2026 (13,200 men and women aged 15-69)6.9%
Social accounts for 7%, even among twentysomethings
Share of women in their twenties who first heard about their current salon on social media. That is a door nobody has walked through yet
Recruit Hot Pepper Beauty Academy, Beauty Census H1 2026 (13,200 men and women aged 15-69)274,070premises
In your catchment there is always a competitor
Registered beauty premises in Japan. Stylists in employment number 579,768, and both figures are up on the previous year
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Report on Public Health Administration and Services, as of March 2024Issues
01
A monthly listing fee with a booking commission on top. You can't put it out to tender, and there is nothing to compare what you currently pay against.
The fixWe report completed bookings and cost per booking, so you can compare it on the same terms as the listing fee.
02
Reuse one image saying 'X% off your first visit' and what you attract are clients who choose on price. They don't come back, and the gaps stay unfilled.
The fixWe run vertical video that shows the result and the process, in small budgets by angle, then move towards the winner.
03
Because bookings hand off to an external system, delivery starts with no measurement in place. All you are left with is views and likes.
The fixIn month one we set up the pixel, GA4 and UTMs, and where measurement isn't possible we make LINE sign-ups the conversion point.
Solution
01
In month one we set up the Meta pixel and CAPI, GA4 and UTMs. Where an external booking system makes completions impossible to measure, we make LINE sign-ups or arrivals at the booking form the conversion point.
02
You can see the stylist, you can see the result, you can see how a first visit goes. We run vertical video on different angles in small budgets and move the budget to the one that gets a response.
03
Delivery is confined to the area people can actually travel from, segmented by age and likelihood of visiting. A small catchment wears out fast, so we swap the hooks and rotate.
04
The headline metrics are completed bookings, cost per booking and LINE sign-ups, with CPM and retention alongside. Where the set-up can't be measured, we count against the booking diary.
What we watchCompleted bookings, cost per booking
What we watchViews, average watch time
What we watchBooking completion rate, frequency
What we watchApplications, LINE sign-ups
What we watchArrivals at the booking page, LINE sign-ups
This mix is one example. Where you start changes with the number of salons and the split of your booking channels.
Process
Delivery design and measurement set-up through to reporting and next month's plan, supported without a break
Phase01
It starts with deciding what counts as one.
A first booking, a requested stylist, a LINE sign-up, an application. We decide what counts as one, then set up the pixel, CAPI, GA4 and UTMs.
Phase02
Honestly, one discount image gives you nothing to compare.
The stylist as a person, results you can repeat, how a first visit goes. We produce vertical video for each angle in batch shoots that never interrupt trading.
Phase03
Budget goes in once the data has confirmed it.
We run several small deliveries inside the catchment at once, and judge what survives on CPM, retention, click-through and early booking numbers.
Phase04
In a small catchment, the same ad has a surprisingly short life.
Budget moves to what is performing. Watching frequency, we add variants with new openings to extend the life.
Phase05
What leads the report is bookings, not views.
Reporting is led by completed bookings, cost per booking and LINE sign-ups, and comes with the brief for next month's creative.
FAQ
We are not. Keep the listing as it is. Our position is to grow a booking channel of your own alongside it, so you have something to judge whether the listing fee and commission are fair.
There are two fee structures: fully performance-based and management-fee based. Performance-based suits conversions that complete online, like a booking; a management fee suits awareness work and concentrated pushes. For a guide to the figures, see social ads pricing.
The stylist someone wants to be seen by, results you can repeat, and a first visit that can't go wrong. We build each as a separate angle and move towards whatever the small tests show is working.
Where bookings hand off to another domain, we check how far they can be tracked before delivery starts. Where they can't, we substitute LINE sign-ups or arrivals at the booking form as the conversion point.
We run recruitment advertising too. Video showing a day in the job as it really is, delivered inside commuting distance and to areas with lots of beauty students, with applications received over LINE.
If a post has taken off, it can run as it is through Spark Ads or partnership ads. The condition is that their consent and the scope of secondary use are agreed first.
Services
End-to-end support from account strategy through filming, editing, posting and analytics
First-person short-form video. No cast, fast turnaround, low cost — and the experience comes through
Cast the right creators for your goal from a network of over 20 million combined followers
Small tests identify the winners first, so budget goes only where it drives traffic and revenue
Multilingual social marketing that maximizes the inbound visitors you attract
Awareness, conversion tracking and nurturing in one pipeline, powered by our playbooks and AI
Recruitment marketing that reaches the 94% job boards never touch, through short-form video ads made for you
End-to-end Japan market entry for overseas brands: localization strategy, official social accounts, POV video, PR and on-site activation
Shopify and BASE store operations, plus channel manager, LINE and Meta ads integration with your booking system, so your marketing has somewhere to land
Free consultations and quotes available
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