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How One Salon Owner Built Financial Stability and Improved Culture through Team-Based Pay
Krista Harvey, owner of Studio7 Salon and Spa in Ames, Iowa, describes how converting her salon to team-based pay helped her pull the business out of debt and build a strong and productive culture.
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Data Stories: Robert Cromeans Uses Data to Monitor the Health of his Team
With a few hundred employees across three states, Robert Cromeans has gotten so good at reading individual staff member's performance data, he says he can predict how well they are doing in their personal lives, as well as at work.
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Data Stories: The Commitment List
Laura Ortmann and the management team at Ginger Bay Salons and Spas learn they can accomplish big goals more easily after they developed The Commitment List and started assigning goals and accountability to specific team members.
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Data Stories: Starting with the Big Picture
Before she takes the stage at the Data-Driven Salon event in Atlanta June 25-26, Hair and Co. BKLYN's Allyson King shares her goal-setting process with her employees and it all starts with the big picture.
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Data Stories: Salon Management by the Numbers
Before he takes the stage at Data-Driven Salon in June, Monty Howard talks about how he uses data to get the team's buy-in on sales strategy, as how to make a point in one-on-one meetings.
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Data Stories: Gene Juarez Proves Membership has its Privileges
Examining frequency rates of spa guests leads Gene Juarez CEO Scott Missad and his management team to design a membership program that significantly boosts the operation's spa service sales.
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Why You Should Burn Your Bridges
Eurisko's Leon Alexander, Ph.D. explains how to achieve world-class status by giving 100 percent, and why 99 percent isn't good enough.
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From Making Ends Meet to Achieving Financial Freedom
Salon Muse and Blow Dry Lounge in Louisville, Kentucky was getting close to closing its doors when owner Angela Nunn sought help from Summit Salon Business Center. Together they steadied the salon's cash flow, calmed its turnover, boosted sales by 90 percent, paid off the loan and gained a loyal staff. See how.
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Be an Escape Artist
Sometimes life gets so hectic we forget how important it is to take a break. A recent stay at a boutique hotel reminds Editor Stacey Soble to slow down and enjoy the journey--and she finds the escapist quality in many of this year's SALONS OF THE YEAR.
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What Can America's Water-Worried Salons Learn from Others?
Although recent rains have alleviated immediate concern over drought, environmentalists warn that water shortages are a new reality. How does that impact a water-reliant industry like beauty? Learn what you can do to help.
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The Art of Suggestive Selling
Rosy Software's Jim Bower is back with a blog filled with different strategies for suggestive selling, which can boost the salon's bottom line.
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It's Opening Day for Hair + Co. BKLYN
In the final installment of their blog covering the opening of Hair and Co BKLYN, Allyson and Shannon King detail their plan for getting clients in chairs, then they share the results.
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It's Time for a New Salon Business Model
Eurisko's Leon Alexander studies the emerging consumer trends of instant gratification, borrowing, customization and entertainment, then sketches out plans for the salon business design of the future.
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Inspired Ideas: Bii's Community Networking
While community networking, Bii Hair Salon's James Gartner and Adam Swanlund learn the way to new potential clients is by offering fun hair services to their kids.
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The Contemporary Jukebox
Mood Media's new 'Social Mix' feature engages salon clients by allowing them to pick the songs that will play during their salon service. Two salons weigh in.
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