What is The Salon Suite Model?

The Salon Suite Model is the Skool group, created in February 2025, where members of a course of the same name network, share resources and ask questions. The course teaches people to start a salon suite business and is run by Patrice McKinney, who is known as Sway The Pro.

How much does The Salon Suite Model cost?

The Salon Suite Model was free to join on Skool when last read, 1 Oct 2026; its listing showed no charge.

How many members does The Salon Suite Model have?

The Salon Suite Model lists 417 members, read 1 Nov 2026.

How has The Salon Suite Model's membership changed?

From 538 members on 21 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 417 on 1 Nov 2026: down 121, or 22%.

How does The Salon Suite Model compare with other trades and local services communities?

The Salon Suite Model is free to join, where the median priced trades and local services listing charges $39 a month. The niche median is 521 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What else does The Salon Suite Model's seller list?

The same seller has 2 other listings we track: 6 Figure Salon Suite Challenge and 6 Figure Salon Suite Challenge.

What do you get inside The Salon Suite Model?

The Salon Suite Model publishes 147 course modules, 10 courses, 1,528 posts, 5 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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The Salon Suite Model review

The Salon Suite Model publishes 147 course modules on Skool. It was free to join at our last price reading, on 1 Oct 2026.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined The Salon Suite Model, and nothing below is a verdict.

The Salon Suite Model is the Skool group, created in February 2025, where members of a course of the same name network, share resources and ask questions.^[1] The course teaches people to start a salon suite business and is run by Patrice McKinney, who is known as Sway The Pro.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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Members: 417
Published price: Free to join; no paid tier published here, last read 1 Oct 2026
Members, last 31 days: -121; 1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026
Size rank in niche: #69; of 111 sellers listed in trades and local services, by published members
Niche: Trades and local services; 124 listed here
Created: 5 Feb 2025; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 10; since 21 Sept 2026

About The Salon Suite Model

Its site presents it as a step-by-step guide to launching a salon suite business, with lessons on funding a suite without savings, marketing and leasing suites, and automating the business.^[2] Course members can put questions to McKinney in the private Skool group and on live mastermind calls, which are recorded and added to the course.^[2] The course includes a year of free access to monthly coaching calls with McKinney and other industry experts, and the group's calendar lists the call dates and links.^[1]^[2] The site says no hair or beauty experience or licence is needed to open a salon suite business.^[2]

McKinney's YouTube channel lists her as founder of Encore Salon Suites.^[2]^[3] A November 2025 post on the Salon Suite Consulting site names her as that company's founder and sets out a phased coaching program covering branding, marketing from SEO to Instagram reels, and systems and client retention.^[4]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/thesalonsuitemodel, as collected 22 Sept 2026
Official website: thesalonsuitemodel.com, retrieved 30 Sept 2026
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCjWaoeL2JZLvsci22V9NGkw, retrieved 30 Sept 2026
Other: salonsuiteconsulting.com, retrieved 30 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheTrades and local servicesFormatMentorship or coaching

Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.

What is inside

Course modules

147

Courses

Posts, all time

1,528

People running it

Counts published by The Salon Suite Model on its own page, read on 1 Oct 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by patrice-aka-sway-mckinney-8856.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 1 Nov 2026 from Skool source page archived copy f63b381a1baa.

Observable monthly ceiling

monthly price, read 1 Oct 2026

538

published members, read 1 Oct 2026

theoretical ceiling per month, as at 1 Oct 2026

This community is published as free, so the figure is zero. Its members are an audience, not customers. Nothing here estimates what that audience might be worth, and no price is applied to it anywhere on this site.

Evidence and signals

Listed on 417 members.

Evidence: measured.

Following elsewhere: 149,000 at its largest149,000 on YouTube. Followers on another platform, not members here.
First recorded: 21 September 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere: YouTube

Tracked over time

Member change

No changeover 4 days-121-22.5%over 31 days

Price change

One reading with a price so far

10 observations over 40 days.

Member count

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
1 Nov 2026	417	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
28 Oct 2026	417	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
24 Oct 2026	417	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
20 Oct 2026	417	0	Not recorded	Not calculated
16 Oct 2026	417	+2	Not recorded	Not calculated
12 Oct 2026	415	+1	Not recorded	Not calculated
8 Oct 2026	414	+1	Not recorded	Not calculated
4 Oct 2026	413	-125	Not recorded	Not calculated
1 Oct 2026	538	0	Free to join	Not calculated
21 Sept 2026	538		Not recorded	Not calculated
Average per week, last 31 days1 Oct 2026 to 1 Nov 2026		-27
Average per week, since first reading21 Sept 2026 to 1 Nov 2026		-21

Milestones observed

Milestones observed
Members	Crossing	Between readings
500	Fell below	1 Oct 2026 and 4 Oct 2026

Seller’s followers on other platforms

Seller’s followers on other platforms
Read, about monthly	YouTube	TikTok
4 Oct 2026	149,000
4 Sept 2026	149,000

Course content readings

Course content readings
Observed	Posts	Modules	Courses
1 Oct 2026	1,528+19	147+3	10
22 Sept 2026	1,509	144	10
Added per week22 Sept 2026 to 1 Oct 2026	+14	+2.2	0

Common questions about The Salon Suite Model

What is The Salon Suite Model?: The Salon Suite Model is the Skool group, created in February 2025, where members of a course of the same name network, share resources and ask questions. The course teaches people to start a salon suite business and is run by Patrice McKinney, who is known as Sway The Pro.
How much does The Salon Suite Model cost?: The Salon Suite Model was free to join on Skool when last read, 1 Oct 2026; its listing showed no charge.
How many members does The Salon Suite Model have?: The Salon Suite Model lists 417 members, read 1 Nov 2026.
How has The Salon Suite Model's membership changed?: From 538 members on 21 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 417 on 1 Nov 2026: down 121, or 22%.
How does The Salon Suite Model compare with other trades and local services communities?: The Salon Suite Model is free to join, where the median priced trades and local services listing charges $39 a month. The niche median is 521 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What else does The Salon Suite Model's seller list?: The same seller has 2 other listings we track: 6 Figure Salon Suite Challenge and 6 Figure Salon Suite Challenge.
What do you get inside The Salon Suite Model?: The Salon Suite Model publishes 147 course modules, 10 courses, 1,528 posts, 5 admins. Communities with the most course content.