Great Clips launches a $2 million media campaign with FOX.com

When you’re number one and North America’s largest hair salon brand franchise, you have enviable resources to heighten brand awareness and to generate salon traffic. Our $2 million FOX.com deal will reach seven million pairs of eyes monthly, totaling more than 85 million “impressions” by July 31, 2010. We began the schedule this month airing :15 and :30-second TV spots as well as static banner ads, pause ads within programs, and companion ads throughout the FOX.com website. The FOX Broadcasting...

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Multi-Unit Franchisee magazine ranks Great Clips 11th on their “MU50” for 2009

When you look over the list, the MU50 puts us in good company and is quite revealing. The MU50 is a joint ranking prepared by FRANdata-the franchise industry’s source for objective information and analysis-and Multi-Unit Franchisee magazine published by the Franchise Update Media Group-the management resource for franchisors. Great Clips is ranked eleventh for total number of multi-unit owners out of the 50 brands listed. We’re also one of only two non-food concepts ranked eleventh or higher. You would expect...

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Great Clips creates LinkedIn Group

Will you join us? [Link Here] Professional networking is here to stay, and we’ve decided to take advantage of one networking website where our prospective franchisees meet up – LinkedIn. Here’s what I know about LinkedIn: in just six years it reached 45 million members in 150 industries in more than 200 countries and territories around the world; a new member joins about every second; and, executives from all Fortune 500 companies are represented. If you want to recruit professionals to become franchisees (and...

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Kasey Kahne’s return to Great Clips Racing fuels brand marketing

Kasey Kahne, NASCAR’s 2004 Rookie of the Year and consistently voted one of NASCAR’s top three most popular drivers, returns to the Nationwide Series and Great Clips Racing and teams with lead driver, Jason Leffler, to steer our #38 car in as many as eight races a season starting in 2010. “Jason and Kasey are extremely talented drivers, and we are very proud to have them both as representatives of our brand,” said Terri Miller, Great Clips Inc. vice president of marketing. “Kasey’s...

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