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Four places, one claim

Your school has one listing on Polish Perfect, and it shows up in four places. Each place does a different job. One free claim turns on all four.

1. 01Your school's page. It shows your programs with hours, length, tuition, and kit cost. It also shows your accreditations, pass rate, hours, financial aid, and photos. An Enrollment card with Visit Website and your phone number sits at the top.
2. 02The directory pages. Your city has a school page where people filter by program. Each program also gets its own page in each city. See the program pages.
3. 03The feed. Techs and salon owners near you sign in and check it for deals, jobs, and referral offers. Once you claim, you can post open houses, workshops, referral rewards, and instructor jobs there for free. How the feed works for schools.
4. 04The salons. The owners hiring on Polish Perfect are the people who will hire your graduates. Once you claim, you can post a salon-partnership referral and send your graduates to the jobs by city.

The first two are public, and Google can find them. So when you fill in your page, people who have never heard of Polish Perfect can find your school.

The feed is only for people with an account, and it only shows posts from businesses near them. That's why an open house you post there reaches the right people.

What your school's page shows

Your page answers what a student asks before they call. Which programs? How long? How much? Is the school accredited? Do graduates pass the state board? Here's everything on it, top to bottom.

• Your name, address, and phone, plus a Claimed badge once the school is yours. Up to two accreditations show as badges under the name.
• Quick facts: your state board pass rate, job placement rate, graduation rate, and years teaching. Only the ones you've filled in show.
• Programs offered, one card each. Each card shows clock hours, length, and tuition in large type, with the kit cost under it.
• Accreditation & approval: NACCAS accredited, state approved, financial aid eligible, GI Bill accepted, Pell Grant eligible.
• Student outcomes: the same pass, placement, and graduation rates, shown as tiles.
• School hours for each day, with an Open now that follows your time zone. Financial aid options show too, once you add them.
• An Enrollment card. It has a Visit Website button if you have a site, or View on Google if you don't, and a button that calls your phone. On a phone, the same two buttons stay in a bar at the bottom of the screen.
• Student reviews, and photos of the school: classroom, student salon, front desk. Your own photos go first once you upload them.

Once you claim, you set all of this from your dashboard, and nothing you type gets written over. What claiming changes, step by step.

How students find you

Two kinds of pages send people to your school. Both list schools the same way. Claimed schools come first. After that, it depends on how complete your listing is, how recently you updated it, and how often visitors contact you.

• The city page. Every city with nail schools has one. It has a Programs filter: nail technician, cosmetology, esthetics, barbering, and the rest. The filter shows only the schools tagged with that program. It never changes the order.
• The program pages. Each program gets a page in each city, listing the schools there that teach it. There are state and national pages above those, and a program index over all of them. A city gets a program page once three schools there are tagged with that program.

Search on the site works the same way. When someone types school, academy, license, cosmetology, or a program name with a city, we send them to nail schools.

The rankings guide explains the full order and gives you a checklist for moving up. The student inquiries guide covers what happens once a student lands on your page.

Where your graduates go next

The salons on Polish Perfect are the same salons that will hire your students. Once you claim your school, here's how to use that.

• Send graduates to the jobs. Every salon hiring on Polish Perfect posts on the jobs by city pages, with the pay and the schedule right on the post. A graduate with a free account also sees the jobs near them in the feed.
• Help graduates start a profile that keeps their reviews. Every tech on Polish Perfect gets a public profile, and client reviews follow the tech from salon to salon. Happy clients from your student salon can be a graduate's first reviews. How tech profiles work.
• Offer salons a partnership. Post a salon-partnership referral, and for 60 days it tells salon owners near you that you place graduates. A student-referral post does the same for techs who know someone thinking about school. You set the reward, from $100 to $500 or your own number.

Posting the open house

The directory pages are for students who are already looking. The feed is how you reach techs and salon owners before that. Every owner and tech gets it with their free account. It shows what businesses near them have posted, as far out as they choose.

• A deal. An open house, a free workshop, a tuition discount, or an enrollment special. It stays up seven days. Post it the week before the event, then post the next one the week after.
• A referral. A student referral with a reward from $100 to $500 or your own number, an instructor referral, or a salon partnership. It stays up 60 days.
• A job. Instructor, admissions, or front desk. You pick salary or hourly and the programs the job covers. It stays up 30 days, and applications come to your dashboard.

One post shows up in four places: the feed, the public school deals page for your city, its own page with a link you can share, and your listing. So a student without an account sees it too. Posting is free once you claim your school.

Want more people to see a post? Boost starts at $5. It marks your post Featured and puts it in the Sponsored spots on the public city pages, including other cities you choose. Every claimed school starts with free credit toward it. The full guide to the feed for schools.

What it costs

Nothing on this page has a fee. Your listing, the claim, editing your page, the program cards, and posting open houses, referral rewards, and jobs are all free. There's no plan and no renewal.

The one paid extra is Boost, and you only use it if you want to. It puts a post or your school in the Sponsored spots at the top of the city page. It starts at $5, and you get free credit to start.

The order to do it in

If you do nothing else, do the first three in one sitting. They take about 20 minutes with the school phone next to you.

1. 01Claim your school. It's free and takes one phone call. Right away, you move above every unclaimed school in your city.
2. 02List your programs with tuition. Add each program's hours, length, tuition, and kit cost. Programs with tuition count the most toward a complete listing, and tuition is what students compare.
3. 03Pick your accreditations and enter your pass rate. Both show on your page, and both count.
4. 04Add two photos, your hours, and a description in your own words.
5. 05Post your next open house. How the feed works.
6. 06Then read how schools are ranked and how student inquiries work, and change one thing a month.

Find your school and start.