As we head into 2025, the landmark business competition adds a new best practice category focused on Business Builders, and in addition to the link to the application, Stacey Soble offers some strategies to composing a successful application.
Now that all of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200 have been revealed, we put the entire list together in one spot for you. Here, the team from Frangipani Salon in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, celebrate with confetti.
Each year, Honor Your Teachers, encourages cosmetology students to spotlight their favorite instructors and the finalists travel with their nominators to ICA's Fall Atelier. Find out how to nominate your best instructor.
In our final day of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200 Alerts, we meet 50 more honorees in Growth. These owners, including Stacey Holmes and Brandie Lohmann, owners of Steel Blade Men's Salon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have learned to tap into new products, services and trends to build sales, while maximizing the time and talents of their team members.
On Day 9 of our 2024 SALON TODAY 200 we reveal the first 50 honorees in the category of Growth. These salons, including Dr Fly Salon and Spa in Joplin, Missouri, mastered a number of best practices to achieve overall sales growth of 18% or better.
In our 8th Day of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200, we meet the honorees who excelled in Salon Leadership, including Luisa G. Garcia of Soleil Salon and Spa in Windham, New Hampshire. These owners know it's a leader's responsibility to develop a vision for the people they guide, then they have to inspire their team to follow that vision.
We're on a roll! On the 7th Day of our 2024 SALON TODAY 200, we introduce you to the honorees in two categories--technology and environmental sustainability. These tech-savvy honorees leverage the latest tools to automate and streamline their processes and communications, while green-minded honorees, including April Wetzel of Sunbeam Studio in Louisville, Colorado, make strategic decisions that better the world around them.
In Day 6 of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200, we present the honorees in Compensation and Benefits, including the team from Posh Salon and Boutique in Grand Junction, Colorado.These salons offer rewarding compensation and benefits programs and design transparent career paths that retain talent longer.
It's Day 4 of our 2024 SALON TODAY 200 Alerts, and time to meet the honorees in the category of Employee Education. These owners, including Debra Penzone of PENZONE Salons + Spas in Columbus, Ohio, know that education is a career-long process that helps new team members develop their skills and confidence and seasoned staff continually stretch creatively.
In Day 3 of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200, meet the salons in the category of Customer Service. These honorees, including Eneth and Michell Eubanks, founders of MW Salon in Ovideo, Florida, know that customer service impacts the overall experience, and salons and spas that deliver it with each and every visit boost sales, as well as client loyalty.
In Day 2 of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200, we celebrate the honorees in the category of Client Retention and Referral, including Rachel and Jason Gribbin, owners of Define Hair & Skin in Ellicott City, Maryland. These owners know a salon's ability to attract new guests fuels its growth, and its ability to get those clients to return again and again dictates its overall success.
media brand
