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Rosanne Ullman
Project Editor
Rosanne Ullman, Project Editor for Modern Salon Media, has been writing for the MODERN SALON family of publications for more than 30 years, contributing landmark articles ranging from a year-long historical series celebrating MODERN SALON's 75th anniversary to a comprehensive tribute to Vidal Sassoon, as well as directing several of Modern Salon Media's custom publishing projects. Rosanne holds a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Northwestern University.
Sponsor Spotlight: Pivot Point's "Look for the Tag" Campaign
This November, Healthy Hairdresser sponsor Pivot Point International launches “Look for the Tag,” a campaign to raise awareness about human rights and the company’s commitment to social accountability standards.
One Good Deed Leads to Another: Dedication to Community Service
For two salon owners, a dedication to community service blends right into their business.
Save a Life, Show Your Support & Donate to City of Hope
Healthy Hairdresser’s 2017-2018 Be-Cause You Care program continues this month with a spotlight on City of Hope (COH), championed by Healthy Hairdresser sponsor CosmoProf. City of Hope is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of people with cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses.
How Can Team Efforts Toward Fundraising Benefit a Salon Culture?
We polled Healthy Hairdresser's Advisory council and asked: "How can team efforts toward fundraising or awareness of medical/social issues benefit a salon culture or the industry in general?"
4 Ways to Maintain a Salon Culture of Community Service
Going out into the community and bringing the community into the salon benefits everyone involved.
The Healthy Workplace Checklist
When salons encourage their stylists to make health and fitness a priority, the team is better able to take care of the salon's clients. Healthy Hairdresser Editor Rosanne Ullman compiled this Healthy Workplace Checklist to help owners with specific action items they can implement to begin developing a culture of wellness.
Building a Healthy Salon
As stylists realize to best serve their clients they need to be healthy and strong themselves, salon owners are responding by making team wellness a management priority.
Blueprint For Success: How to Expand Your Salon Business
Ever dream of expanding your salon business? Successful multi-salon owners help you discover when the time is right, how to build the systems and the team to support the growth, and where to let your expansion dream lead you.
10 Technologies Transforming Salon Business
Technology is changing everything about the way you interact with your clients, from how you attract them to how you reward them to their individualized experience in your salon. SALON TODAY digs deep, showing you how early-adopting salons are embracing the latest technology for an improved salon/client relationship.
10 Technologies: Mobility
Not so long ago, tapping into technology required a stationary computer and even a server, but that’s no longer the case—now everything can be accessed through a tablet, such as an iPad, or a phone.
10 Technologies: Integrated Marketing
Oh, the good old days of marketing when you dreamed up a campaign, called the local newspaper to place an ad and backed it up with a little salon signage. Today, that’s only a piece of the action—now you want to take that info and also e-mail it, text it, Tweet it, and Facebook it—and that’s just the beginning.
10 Technologies: QR Codes
If you’re wondering about those bizarre two-dimensional barcode boxes you’re starting to see in magazines, they’re called QR (Quick Response) codes, and they can be your ticket to delivering information to the most tech-savvy of your clients.
10 Technologies: Geo-location Programs
One of the newest trends in the social media and marketing arena is the use of geo-location software to connect consumers to the businesses they patronize.
10 Technologies: Appointment-Filling Programs
Even in this climate of constant change and innovation, there are two things we know about today’s consumers: they want real-time information, and they’re relying more and more on their phones. Additionally, a segment of the market does not plan ahead.
10 Technologies: Automated Loyalty Programs
Airlines, grocery stores, bookstores, pharmacies, restaurants and retailers—today, it seems every business has a loyalty program with an identifying member card.
10 Technologies: Collective Couponing
Now that we’ve brought up the G word, let’s take a closer look at the collective couponing phenonmenon—is it a good strategy for salons or a bad strategy? While we acknowledge there are many players in this segment, Groupon still leads the pack. We invited two salons to debate the issue, and a third to weigh-in with an industry alternative.