Salon Management

Building a Healthy Salon

As stylists realize to best serve their clients they need to be healthy and strong themselves, salon owners are responding by making team wellness a management priority.

The 10 Most Annoying Stylist Habits

Salon Today blogger Jeff Grissler is back with a great column to spur conversation at your next staff meeting. He's amassed 10 bad habits that annoy clients, while offering suggestions on how to overcome each one.

Owners Share their Words of Wisdom through BCL's ScholarTips Campaign

Salon Today readers respond to the ScholarTips' challenge with donations to the foundation's scholarship fund, along with their words of advice for future beauty professionals.

Staying in Step with ScholarTips: 5 Questions for Lynelle Lynch

Introduced by Beauty Changes Lives at CosmoProf North America, ScholarTips is bringing the beauty and wellness community together to share tips of treasure and wisdom with the future beauty professionals.  As ScholarTips gains momentum ...

SALON TODAY RECOMMENDS: 5 Ways to Put Continuing Education to Work in the Salon

A common message in the beauty industry is that continuing education is essential to success. This is true, but the mantra falls short if a stylist leaves a supplemental course without any guidance on how to implement their newly learned skills in the salon. Aveda Means Business shares stories of salon owners who have raised revenue and built ambitious salon cultures by outlining ways for stylists to utilize skills and pass on valuable information to clients. Scroll through for five real-world examples of continuing education being applied in the salon.

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Culture Club: Take Us Out to the Ballgame

The team at Ginger Bay Salon & Spa in St. Louis, Missouri, are huge Cardinals baseball fans, and they show their support throughout the season. “We wear Cardinals gear for the home opener and certain playoff games and of course, when ...

Enter Rosy Awards Scholarship Program - For Future Professionals!

Rosy Salon Software has announced Rosy Rewards – a $10,000 annual scholarship fund offered exclusively for future salon professionals.This program is designed to give cosmetology students throughout North America an opportunity to further ...

7 Triggers for Capturing Your Clients' Attention

While technology provides us with access to endless amounts of information, connects us with people around the world, and entertains us for hours, it comes with a cost, according to tech author and entrepreneur Ben Parr.“As a result of our ...

The Best Staff Retention Tool

Anthony Garubo, owner of Anthony Garubo Salon in Maplewood, NJ, learned the hard way how create a staff that would stay. “Decades ago, I was arrogant, and I had a devastating walk out,” recalls Garubo. “Now, I know I ...

SALON TODAY RECOMMENDS: Must-Read Articles on Leading People and Managing Operations in the Salon

Small shifts in management strategies can have a big impact on a salon’s culture. SALON TODAY is always on the lookout for new tips and best practices from salon owners who have improved their business structures and work environments. ...

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Mindset: Social Studies

Today's job-seekers are looking for employers whose values align with their own. On that same note, employers want to know a prospect will be a valuable addition to the team. This month, we asked several industry leaders, "What's ...

SALON TODAY RECOMMENDS: 5 Tips for Effective Salon Leadership

Salon owners juggle more roles than many may realize. From mentor to business strategist, marketing guru to customer relations expert, they have many hats to wear—without even considering any work they may do on the salon floor. As ...

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Culture Starts at the Top

The older I get, the less excited I am about collecting the afternoon mail. Bills and junk mail tend to overwhelm anything of interest, and sorting through the stack tends to waste valuable time.Recently though, a small, hand-addressed envelope ...

Salon Today April 2016: Culture Club

When it comes to salon culture, business coaches are fond of brandishing warnings to their salon-owner clients: “If you don’t make a conscious decision to define and cultivate your salon culture, it will be cultivated for ...

SALON TODAY RECOMMENDS: 5 Salon Culture Challenges and How to Solve Them

When good feelings and positive dynamics fall apart in the salon, things can spiral out of control quickly. With SALON TODAY's focus on salon culture this month, we're recommending a series of insightful articles ...

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Culture Club: Spa Bleu

Two years ago, the team at Spa Bleu, with two locations in Barrington and West Dundee, Illinois, came up with 10 shared values to help define their culture.“First, the leadership team narrowed down the values,” says Heather Hazlett, ...

Culture Club: Ginger Bay Salon and Spa

Laura Ortmann believes establishing her salon’s culture is a challenging, never-ending job. As a former attorney who purchased the existing Ginger Bay Salon and Spa in St. Louis in 2008, one of her first tasks was defining the ...