Health Insurance Your Way
A new website offers salon owners a variety of options for offering health insurance to their employees. Daniel Lewis, owner of Green Peridot salon, started offering health insurance through insuranceforsalons.com shortly ...
Dealing with Disgruntled Staffers
How do you deal with a disgruntled employee? Remember that your employees are the first customers you need to make happy. So once you find out what the issue is, think about how you would resolve the issue with a customer. Modify that resolution to work with your employee. Of course, there are certain situations that may require some tough love, or a difficult decision, but as a business owner, it's important to face the harder situations head on. they don't get better if you ignore them.
Six Questions to Ask Your Salon Distributor
In today's competitive and often uncertain business climate, it's critical that salon owners and managers tap into every resource available. One of the most often overlooked resource is the distributor sales consultant (DSC). You may view your DSC as just a salesperson—which of course he or she—but you must also remember that your success equals his or her success. Many DSCs are well-trained in the art of marketing and sales, and can can serve as excellent advisers.
by Stacey Soble
Increase efficiency with a color accelerator
What's an hour worth to you? What would your numbers be like if you could squeeze in an additional two haircuts a day or another color service? Calculate it per day, then per pay period and you're starting to see the bigger picture.
by Stacey Soble
Salon gets financing from lending firm
by Stacey Soble
New spa treatment: Arctic Ice Room
A cool 55-degree room with a heated floor and benches. Guests relax in this mini winter wonderland as snowflakes cascade down from the domed ceiling. Tiny fiber optic lights illuminate the walls and a shaved ice fountain provides crushed chips to cool and exfoliate the skin. Not only does the room provide a unique and memorable spa experience, it provides an escape from reality—created to invigorate the senses.
Redken announces social network site for salon professionals
AT THE PREMIERE Orlando Beauty Show, Redken unveiled its Break Room—an online community for salon professionals that marries the concepts of Facebook, Match.com and LinkedIn. This new social network is exclusively for professionals, allowing for them to connect with each other; share business tips, challenges and successes; and learn from experts. Additionally, technicals and step-by-steps are included on the site, as well as group forums, job boards and a chat function.
How Groupon can help your salon business
Groupon.com, a relatively new city-specifi c discount website, is proving the idea that group coupons can be a great asset to the professional salon industry.
European salon furniture comes to the U.S.
A NEW PRODUCT LINE, launched by Belvedere USA and Belvedere Co. Canada, brings two, sought-after European product lines to North America. The new line, named Euro Loft, extends the marketplace for the European lines of Kiela and Welonda.
Has TV Influenced Your Salon Business?
Not only do televisions provide extra entertainment for your guests, they allow you to promote your salon’s services and products. Salon Today asked these salon owners how tv has influenced their businesses.
Smile and Move: A Reminder to Happily Serve
Smile and Move is a great reminder to work hard, but have fun doing it. It is an easy read, and written to entertain you visually, as well as feed your brain with small reminders to serve one another.
How to save money on each credit card transaction
Keep your salon cutting edge with online education
TO KEEP YOUR SALON GROWING and your staff creatively inspired, advanced education is a must. But bringing in outside educators or sending staff members away for education can be a drain on time and budget.
Salon owners need to understand social media
The fast-paced, ever-changing social media scene keeps even the most tech-savvy salon owners on their toes. To give you the landscape, salon today gathered the latest stats.
by Stacey Soble
Increase traffic to your salon's web site with Twitter
NETWORKING IS VITAL to the success of any business, but you can bypass the Chamber of Commerce meetings and hop online. With more than 200 million people around the country using the internet, it’s vital that you take an online approach to your marketing efforts. Social media, especially, is growing at an exponential rate. Twitter, for example, has reached about 20 million users in the U.S. alone. In taking advantage of social media, you will build your business’ credibility and increase traffic to your website.
First-Time Philanthropist
Partnering with a charity to host an event not only raises money for a good cause, it can generate some goodwill, welcome publicity and new clients for your business.
One on One with Dean Horowitz: SEO Know How
AT THE PREMIERE ORLANDO International Beauty Event, Dean Horowitz, vice president of e-media for Vance Publishing (SALON TODAY’s parent company), coached salon owners and managers on how to put their best online foot forward. Back at home, SALON TODAY caught up with Horowitz to recap some of his favorite strategies for boosting a salon’s position with search engines: