2018 Salon Today 200: Employee Education
Meet the 2018 Salon Today 200 honorees in Employee Education. These salons constantly develop systems to strengthen the skills and confidence of their new team members, while encouraging and supporting their seasoned staff to continually stretch creatively.
by Stacey Soble
2018 Salon Today 200: Technology
On Day 4 of the 12 Days of the Salon Today 200, we introduce you to the savvy honorees in the Technology category. They've learned to leverage a variety of evolving technologies to reach their full potential and keep all salon systems running strong.
by Stacey Soble
2018 Salon Today 200: Customer Service
It's day 3 of the 12 Days of the Salon Today 200 and time to meet the superstars in customer service. These salons have mastered the art of elevating the salon and spa experience, which solidifies client loyalty and propels growth.
by Stacey Soble
2018 Salon Today 200: Salon Culture
Meet the 2018 Salon Today 200 honorees in Salon Culture. From defining a salon mission to developing activities to enhance teamwork, these owners work on culture year round.
by Stacey Soble
2018 Salon Today 200: Profit Center
On the first day of our 12 Days of the Salon Today 200, we proudly introduce you to the honorees in our newest category—Profit Center. These savvy salons and spas cultivated growth by introducing new services or products to their clients.
by Stacey Soble
Salon Today 200 Categories Released in December
SALON TODAY begins announcing the 2018 SALON TODAY 200 starting on December 1, find out how to get the news.
by Stacey Soble
ST200 Deadline Extended to September 15
Salon Today extends the deadline for its landmark Salon Today 200 business competition to September 15. See the categories and access the application form.
by Stacey Soble
Salon Today 200 Announces Profit Center—Its Newest Competition Category
The Salon Today 200 releases its 2018 application, with a new competition category designed to identify new business growth opportunities for the industry.
A Service Strategy for Doubling Stylist Income
Candy Shaw leverages Salon Today 200 data to illustrate than her Sunlights' Balayage is helping stylists and salons double their income.
by Stacey Soble
The Salon Today 200 Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary at Serious Business
At a special recognition party following Serious Business in New Orleans, the Salon Today 200 celebrates its 20th anniversary, honors salons who've been named to the competition 10 years or more and recognizes the 2017 honorees.
by Stacey Soble
Inspired Ideas: The Weekly Huddle
Emerge Modern Salons & Spa hosts a weekly huddle that inspires the team while enforcing their retail skills--and it's all conducted by the team members themselves.
by Stacey Soble
20 Years of the Salon Today 200: Looking Back, Growing Forward
As the Salon Today 200 prepares to celebrate the best and the brightest in 2017, we pause to reflect on how far salon business has come in our 20-year history.
by Stacey Soble
Salon Today 200: 20 Years of Shining a Spotlight on Salon Success
A detailed look at the picture that the statistics from the 2017 Salon Today 200 paint on the state of the salon industry.
by Stacey Soble
The Power of Persistence
Once upon a time more than 20 years ago, Michele Musgrove, MODERN SALON Media’s associate publisher and editorial director, had my role—as editor in chief of SALON TODAY. At the time, there was a general perception that salon and spa owners were close-lipped about their best business-building ideas and reluctant to share their financials.
by Stacey Soble
How We Design the Salon Today 200 Cover
Ever wonder how we select the owners who make the cover of the Salon Today 200 issue each year? It's more complicated than you might think. Editor Stacey Soble walks you through our process and introduces this year's cover models.
by Stacey Soble
2017 Salon Today 200: Growth, Part Two
Meet the second half of our 2017 Salon Today 200 Growth Honorees. When a salon or spa masters a number of best business practices, it often fuels its growth. The resulting momentum, as well as the extra resources, often encourage the business and its team to continue to expand as they seek success.
by Stacey Soble
2017 Salon Today 200: Growth, Part 1
By excelling in a number of best practices, a salon creates the momentum that engages teams, excites clients and results in growth. And, growth in turn provides the resources needed to reach future goals. Here are the first 50 2017 Salon Today 200 Honorees in the category of Growth.
by Stacey Soble