How to Compensate Your In-Salon Educator
Karla Lopez-Martinez, one of the founders of BeautyBackbone.com, offers solid advice for how to structure compensation for your salon's on-staff educators.
Positively Impacting People
Hand-written notes and surprise messages left on cars or inside the lids of products make the clients at Neatbeat in Louisville, Kentucky, feel special. Check out Owner Heather Yurko's Positively Impacting People program.
Salon Disegno Designs Clever Recruitment Strategy
When the owners of a four-location salon company identify recruitment as their biggest challenge, they design a clever plan for getting to know the best students to come out of local schools.
by Stacey Soble
Bellus Academy Launches 'We Love Our Jobs' Campaign
In a new campaign, Bellus Academy partners with local salons and spas to dole out more than $400,000 in beauty and wellness scholarships, helping solidify the future of the professional beauty industry.
10 Habits of a Young Stylist
10 Habits of a Young Stylist is a creative workshop for new beauty graduates or young stylists looking to expand their career in their own terms and is being offered at the International Salon and Spa Expo (ISSE) in Long Beach, CA, this weekend.
by Anne Moratto
MODERN EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Sola Salon Studios New CEO Randall Clark
“We’re 13 years old but five years ago we had 70 locations,” Clark says. “Today, we are close to 400 open locations, nationwide."
by Anne Moratto
Farouk Systems Announces PBA Beacon Program Top Sponsorship
As a sponsor, Farouk Systems, Inc. will help to support the industry’s future rising stars welcoming students across the country to compete and strive for this national recognition.
Electric Sessions Announces Pop-Up Education in San Diego
Electric Sessions brings a trio of British hairdressing greats to San Diego for a pop-up educational event in late January.
5 Ways to Identify and Recruit New Salon Team Members
Every town has that one shop or salon that never has hiring challenges. This does not happen by accident.
by Ivan Zoot
Salon Today Recommends: Become a 6-Figure Stylist, Boost Your Bottom Line & Aveda’s Full Spectrum Demi+ Line
Salon Today is always on the lookout for savvy business advice, and we recently found great reads on these topics on Aveda Means Business. Get more info about Aveda’s new Full Spectrum Demi+ Line; Learn how one master colorist produces $500,000 in retail and service revenue each year. Boost your bottom line; hear what you can expect at Serious Business 2018; and see what one salon does to show client appreciation.
Sponsored by Aveda Means Business
Van Michael Salons Launch For-Purchase Salon Management Kits
Van Michael's Van Council and Susan Dykstra share 300,000 hours worth of salon management experience with a new kit designed to help salons grow.
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
8 Ways to Keep Salon Employees Happy
When you are happy where you work, daily challenges are easier to bear. In a business where profit hinges on great customer service delivery, salon owners need to shoot for happy employees.
10 Tips to Recruit From Beauty Schools
Positions need to be filled in your salon ideally with good, solid candidates. Here's how you get them!
Sponsored by Aveda Means Business
Mastering the Art of Client Communication
Rosy's Jim Bower shares some communication tips to help stylists find their conversation stride with clients. Your teams communication skills can help boost sales and strengthen client loyalty.
Salon Secret Systems: New Coaching Program from Celebrity Colorist Jennifer J.
"There is so much to know about this business and most of it can all be sorted out by knowing exactly how to talk to their client and to be able to acknowledge their own worth as a hairdresser."
by Anne Moratto
3 Ways You Can Be a Kick-Ass Leader!
Author E.M. Kelly once said, “A boss says, ‘Go!’ A leader says, ‘Let’s go!'” And it’s true. There is so much more to being a leader than just being in charge. Great leaders are necessary for the growth and longevity of an organization.
Sponsored by Millennium Systems International