Learn Eye Lash Trade Secrets & How to Speed up Application...Here's How
Learn lash application from an expert! Soak up Sophia Navarro's tips and trick and learn her technique for creating NovaLash's voluminous and luxurious lash lines.
Inspire Your Everyday with NAHA-Winning Artists at the L'ANZA B.I.G. Event
Join L’ANZA for two days of powerful education, guaranteed to excite your creativity and inspire your business. The B.I.G Event will be held at the Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 5 through Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017.
Sponsored by L'anza
Games Salons Play to Engage the Team
When Salon Today recently polled owners and managers about staff meetings, a number revealed they keep their team engaged by playing games that foster camaraderie and teamwork, encourage members to share their wisdom with one another or reinforce salon education. We couldn't resist, we had to dig a little deeper, and here are their stories.
by Stacey Soble
ColorProof Appoints Mary Wilson as Director of Education
Mary Wilson came on board with ColorProof in February to oversee and lead ColorProof’s education department.
How One Solo Artist Barber Made the $12 Men’s Cut a Thing of the Past
When the profession is hot but the haircut prices are not, it’s time to up your game. At Roc’s Barber Shop within iStudio Salons in Orlando, Florida, Wahl Ambassador Berman Rodriguez (@Rocdizz) got out of the $12 men’s cut zone with key six steps that anyone can use.
The Skinny on Staff Meetings with the Results from the First Beauty Pulse Survey
Discover the results to our first Beauty Pulse survey on staff meetings, discover salon owners' favorite ways of engaging team members, and participate in the next survey.
Tech Pilots: Birds Barbershop Gets in on the Ground Floor with Facebook's Workplace
At the recommendation of another salon, Birds Barbershops' Jayson Rapaport gets into a testing program for Facebook's new Workplace program and discovers a valuable new tool for communicating with the company's 180 employees scattered across nine locations.
10 Steps to Grow Your Business as a Solo Artist
Branding is a big buzzword and for good reason. For solo artists, a smart brand strategy is the key to gaining new clients and impressing and maintaining current clients.
Hair Cuttery's New Path to Prosperity
As Phil Horvath joins Ratner Companies, he and Dennis Ratner prepare to roll out a new stylist compensation program, along with a new motivational app for Hair Cuttery's 12,000 stylists.
by Stacey Soble
Data Stories: Breaking Down the Numbers
In his class on reading P&Ls at Data-Driven Salon, World Class Salons' Jim Pacifico talks about how he breaks down the numbers so his team can follow them easily.
by Stacey Soble
Data Stories: Keeping Score to Do More
At the Data-Driven Salon event, Van Council, co-owner of the Van Michael Salons and Spas in Atlanta, shares how he leverages data for everything, including helping team members and salon locations achieve goals and reach new compensation levels.
by Stacey Soble
ColorProof Energizes Artists at Update Training
ColorProof recently hosted its Artistic Specialist and Platform Artist teams in a comprehensive, two-day technical update training in Newport Beach, CA.
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.
3 Salon Owners Team Up to Give Their Stylists a Crash Course in Photography
With the huge importance that Instagram plays in marketing and building a clientele, it only makes sense that stylists need to be adept at the skills of the social media trade. At Luxury Brand Partner's Idealogue in New York, three salon owners came up with the idea to partner on an educational event centered on social media and photography.
SALON TODAY RECOMMENDS: 5 Articles on Solving Struggles in Retailing, Retention, Legislation and More
Being a salon owner means managing the education of stylists, retention of staff, progress of profits and more. Inevitably, there are land mines in all of these areas and the path to success is not always clear. We've explored the Aveda Means Business blog and found stories of several salon owners who think outside the box to find solutions to common small-business struggles. Read about the areas where their businesses struggled and what they did to implement systems that work.
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.
by Stacey Soble
SalonCentric Opens the National Education Academy In Florida
Learn more and get a tour of SalonCentric's new National Education Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida.