Ricky Hodge and ManeGain Team in Austin

January 8, 2012

Austin, TX – January 9, 2012: ManeGain is now offering its cutting edge, natural hair regrowth and restoration therapy in East Austin at Ricky Hodge Salon and continues to grow its cadre of premiere salons offering its HALO Therapy.   HALO is a high-technology, FDA-approved Therapy comprised of three non-invasive light energies that, when delivered simultaneously, stimulates the hair follicle cells, enhances blood flow, and minimizes the causes of gender pattern baldness, naturally reversing thinning hair and hair loss. Essentially, it grows new hair.

 ManeGain’s CEO, Barry Thornton, explains, “The ManeGain HALO Therapy actually reverses the “root” causes of hair loss by bathing the scalp with naturally occurring energies and acts as sort of time machine to reverse normal age-related hair loss between 5 to 20 years in most people.”

 When asked why Ricky Hodge is now offering the ManeGain Therapy, Founder Mr. Hodge commented, “I believe in offering people a one of kind of experience when it comes to style and coloring hair.  I have noticed over the years that many of my best clients are starting to have thinning hair, and as such this really affects how the feel about themselves. Until now, we really did not have an effective way to deal with that.  With ManeGain, we are able to explore a new ground-breaking technology that can actually work to combat hair loss and thinning through an all-natural, non-invasive, chemical-free sessions.  We are excited to be the only salon chosen to offer this Therapy in East Austin.”

 Jeffrey Fry, ManeGain Marketing Chief added, “Ricky (Hodge) is renowned for his ability to transform anyone into a natural looking blonde. This is a one of kind talent and ManeGain is all about offering a one of a kind Therapy to regrow and strengthen people’s hair, while making them feel more confident.” Mr. Fry went on to say, “Ricky Hodge Salon is a great choice because they understand offering people our HALO Therapy not only can reverse hair loss, but give clients more abundant, stronger, thicker, richer hair.  Just like Ricky’s coloring, it is a one-of-a-kind experience!”

 For more info about Ricky Hodge Salon, you can contact them at www.rickyhodgesalon.com  or call them at (512) 322-9819.

For more information about ManeGain, you can contact them at www.manegain.com or call at (877) 5-REGROW or email at info@manegain.com.

At First Light

December 26, 2011

They call it ‘first light’, the moment when you can see that ‘it’ is working and you know great transformation awaits. It is exciting and exhilarating, the moment of exuberance when the world changes and you know it is now inevitable, no more doubt, you are on the way to where you want to be.  You are regrowing new hair.

We see this happening in people all the time, 8 to 12 weeks after they take action and start a change in their life.  That change is restoration of their confidence when getting their hair back; it is what ManeGain does to people.

The Fog of Fear

December 23, 2011

Today a rich fog came in over the lake and I reflected on how many times I have had to navigate through fog, both on my boat and in my life.

In both cases, I have found that concentration is the key to getting though; concentration of will and focus, clarity of thought, being the maximum me when needed.

But when I can’t concentrate, when nagging thoughts or fears make noise inside my head, I am at the mercy of the currents both of liquid and of life.  We all have this problem.  It is the profound fear, the deep intangible, unrealized knowledge that the worst will happen; those thoughts are the ones that can stop your life in its tracks.

Deepest of all of these it the profound knowledge that you are changing and everyone can see it, that you are no longer seen for what you know you still are.  When the day arrives that you cannot cover it up anymore, your life as it was ends.

This happens when you lose your hair – but you do not have to be a victim, you can get it back along with your life.  Without the distraction of the thoughts of loss you can find your way through that fog, that’s what ManeGain is for.

-Barry

Giacomo Forbes on ManeGain in San Antonio

December 20, 2011

Giacomo Forbes, celebrity stylist to the stars, is interviewed with Deborah Schneider of AMAR Cosmetics in San Antonio on WOAI…he also talks about the ManeGain Hair Grower…super great interview.

Service Providers

December 19, 2011

We tend to forget that every one of our service providers, call them stylists, hairdressers, or aestheticians, is really a small and probably bootstrapped business.  Each of these folks paid money and went to school for the accreditation required to do this work legally.  They then found a shop where, to grow you need to get your own customers.

 Each has all the classic elements of a business:

  • They market themselves
  • The sell themselves
  • They deliver service/product
  • They collect payment for that service/product.
  • They make a profit and grow

Each of these folks has a CRM (Customer Relations Management) process.  Each is a Brand.  Each builds the value in that Brand.  Customers express brand-loyalty, they follow a service provider from shop-to-shop in many cases.

The problem is that Service Provider doesn’t know it.  Oh, they know it, they can mouth the words; but they don’t feel it, they don’t live it, they don’t believe it, they don’t drive their brands with passion, design, and intent.

The essence of that last thought is that this is where we can make a difference in all these people’s lives.  This is our lever into their souls (to put it melodramatically).  This is how we can transform them.  This is how we get them to carry our Brand forward.

How do we do this?

 We carry a message of how to improve their branding.  We educate in this area that no one teaches about.  We provide little snippets every time we ‘touch’ them, building the same story of perfecting their theater and messaging, their skills and use of marketing in the Experience Economy, their Brand

Lost Confidence?

December 16, 2011

“One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.”
    Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste  1765-1824  French Lexicographer

Fundamental to our confidence is what we know other people see and judge us by.  Much of our confidence is projected to others, some of comes back to re-energize us; we see this as the reaction of those we meet.  Our survival is as a social creature is determined by how we impress people; how we project into them an image that is more that just what they see but something that is vibrant, that they can feel.  Something that will move them.  Loosing this ability means loosing ourselves.

The first thing someone knows about us is from our hair.  Our cloths mean nothing but a working credit card, yet our hair speaks volumes about us, who we are, our health, and our possibilities.  Our hair is all about our confidence. Lose it and what else is there?

ManeGain

The Right Moment

December 10, 2011

“The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back.”
   –Francois Rabelais – 1493-1553, French Clergyman

Almost 500 years and this analogy is still clear.  The greatest impact we can have on anyone occurs at the first encounter.  That single instant of first visual contact reaches cleanly and unobstructed deep down in to our most profound and primitive memories and feelings.  It is what you then remember and judge from.  It is a survival reaction; it is the first order of protection.

What is the power of a full head of healthy hair at that instant?  No matter what happens it is over and cannot be repeated, it never looks back, time marches on, you just took the one-way trip that went from zero-to-one.  How do you think you did?  Could you do better with more abundant, lusher, and healthier hair?

 ManeGain

Hair: A Tangled Mystery of Self-Image

December 9, 2011

“Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground.  Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.” 
   —Shana Alexander

There is no question that we use our self-image to project ourselves to the outside world, for who are we but what we appear to be?  The healthy soul is what it appears to be; it need be not a thing more or less.

What we project is a vision; the first and easiest thing we see of anyone else, or them of us, is hair.  We look for the hair instinctively, it is a drive so profound that that is it lodged in our deepest inner brain, it is a survival action of the earliest order.  In our far distant past what we saw told us of the health, hygiene, temperament, and success of the person we viewed.  It told us about our survival.

Today, still wrapped in a veiled of distant instincts, our modern outer brain takes over after the urge to look is controlled, and we look for the same things but using bigger words.

Nothing entices the senses as does my hair.

ManeGain

Bait of Love

December 7, 2011

“Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a simple knot was tied: sweet negligence – unheeded bait of love”
—John Dryden 17th Century English Poet

How can there be any doubt that you hair is the ‘bait of love’. Love is more than just an intimate expression; it is joy and understanding from afar. And love done afar is done with eyes, and yes, you hair is that message carrier from afar that build the amazing and wonderful feelings of love as you near your loved.

A Public Mea Culpa

November 27, 2011

It finally happened!

For the first time since we (ManeGain) started, with two years now of testing in our salons and with customers, we had our first failure. Today, I sent out our first Warranty Refund Check. We failed a customer; we failed to transform her life.

While we know our efficacy rate mathematically should be above 95% and we screen carefully to make sure that the Therapy will work for you, we knew it had to happen eventually…and after 50 individuals…it did.

Our success is dependent on setting and fulfilling YOUR expectations. Restoring hair is such a profound life-changer and we assume a great responsibility when we set those expectations in you. This process is transformational because we do just that; we transform you to a newer more confident and secure YOU.

Failure sucks! The only joy I have in this is that we did what we said we would do. Had it been practical, I would have taken the check there myself and apologized for setting hopes and not delivering on the promise of have “New Hair.” But that is why we have a guarantee! We know most of the time you will see your hair return, and while we make our best analysis, the fact is we are each unique physical and mental critters, with enough range of variation to be healthy humans where someone will not get their hair to grow back.

On the other hand, with all this success we have seen, having only one failure makes it worth it. Thank you.

Barry Thornton
barry@manegain.com

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