Stephen Michael Joins Minerva Beauty
Minerva Beauty is proud to announce and welcome Stephen Michael as its new national accounts consultant and design expert. Michael will be responsible for forging relationships with national accounts, designing award-winning salons and advancing ...
by Stacey Soble
PBA Wins 2015 Public Affairs Council Grassroots Innovation Award
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) received the Public Affairs Council’s (PAC) 2015 Grassroots Innovation Award for Social Media Innovation for the “I Am Licensed” campaign. The Grassroots Innovation Awards were ...
by Stacey Soble
PBA Plans 2015 Distributor Executive Conference for April
Following the tremendous success of the event in 2014, the Professional Beauty Association (PBA) is pleased to once again bring together distributors from across the country for the 2015 PBA Distributor Executive Conference (DEC). Taking ...
by Stacey Soble
Industry Veterans Make Hairdressing Education More Accessible
A team of industry veterans ?have unveiled Hybrideducation.co – a new company that provides comprehensive, quality hairdressing education through its online, on-demand training platform and live seminars. By focusing on the underlying ...
by Stacey Soble
Are You Really Worth It?
Price and value has been heavy on my mind lately, as I continue to see a wave of discounting of services from hairdressers, salons, education companies, fitness studios and more. I would have to say it is one of the most heartbreaking things for ...
by Stacey Soble
New SelecTech Division Helps Salons Address Flooring Challenges
SelecTech, Inc., a leader in innovative flooring products, recently announced the creation of a special division to cater to hair salons, barber shops and spas.“When it comes to flooring, hair salons have some real challenges. One is ...
by Stacey Soble
Entrepreneur Magazine Names Sport Clips a Top 10 Fastest-Growing Franchise
Sport Clips Haircuts has been ranked in the Top 100 of Entrepreneur magazine’s “fastest-growing” companies for the past 12 years, and this year, for the first time, in the top 10 among the media entity’s ...
by Stacey Soble
Salon Today Tours New Salon Software Features at ISSE
At the International Salon Spa Expo (ISSE) in Long Beach, California, SALON TODAY took a spin around the show floor to see what was new with most of the salon software vendors that were exhibiting. Tag along with us and see what programs are ...
by Stacey Soble
Join HairRaising in Helping Sick Children During National Cut-A-Thon
On Sunday, April 12, salons throughout United States will participate in the HairRaising Cut-a-Thon, a massive, one-day fund-raising event benefitting Boston Children’s Hospital, the #1 Pediatric Hospital and Research Center in the ...
by Stacey Soble
Summit Salon Business Center Announces Summit Academy
Summit Salon Business Center recently announced that they have signed license agreements with four cosmetology schools for exclusive rights to use the name Summit Salon Academy. The academies are located in Gainesville, Florida; ...
by Stacey Soble
Millennium's Speak Up Hits Miami
Millennium International announces plans for a second stop for Speak Up, the company’s educational road show, in Miami, January 12. The on-the-go business conference welcomes spa and salon owners and managers to attend, encouraging them to ...
by Stacey Soble
Salon Social Culture, So What?
You’ve heard of ethnic culture, work culture, brand culture, and probably hundreds of other types of cultures that you’re supposed to pay attention to when moving cities, seeking jobs or joining clubs. Culture has become such a ...
by Stacey Soble
Bamboo Salon Starts Metamorphosis
As Salon Today’s first Total Salon Makeover winner, Bamboo Salon in Staten Island, New York, recently took its first steps to grow its business to the next level. Meeting with representatives from Keratin Complex, STX and Takara Belmont, ...
by Stacey Soble
MINDBODY Launches Big Goals, Big Rewards Competition
It’s time to make your New Year’s resolution, and this year the stakes are high for choosing a great business goal. MINDBODY, a global provider of web and mobile business management solutions for the health, wellness and beauty ...
by Stacey Soble
2015 Salon Today 200: Retention and Referral Programs
Salon and spa owners should think of their establishment as a giant revolving door—the more clients who return and return quickly for their next appoinment, the stronger the business will be. Even better is when those clients bring in ...
by Stacey Soble
Salon Success: 10 Actions to Take by Year End
UNITE Global Education Director Marcus Allen believes that hoping to have a good 2015 in the salon will not get you very far; you must move beyond hope toward taking action with outlined steps to your goal. The former manager of Harrod's ...
by Anne Moratto
Cutting-edge Curriculum Gives Students an Online Advantage
Nuts and Bolts Training, a leading provider of business education programs for cosmetology professionals, has completely rewritten its curriculum to recognize the changing needs of young people growing up in a multimedia world.The new ...
by Stacey Soble