Accounting Tool for Small Business Salon Stylists
SALON TODAY talked to David Manske, Midwest Software Engineer for Salon Suite Accounting. Recently Manske, build a straight-forward accounting tool for small business salon stylists. With the help from his mother, a salon stylist, the initial product started as a simple excel spreadsheet and evolved to what it is today.
Hair Extension Makeovers
I recently met with Di Biase Hair Extensions USA and I found out they are doing wonderful makeovers on women who are lacking in hair confidence. Working with women who are in chemotherapy to those who need a hair-pick-me up, Di Biase is touching lives one extension at a time! Di Biase's Vikki Parman, CEO and director of education of Di Biase Hair Extensions, provided us with these tips for building client confidence with healthy looking extensions.
Stacey Soble with Frank Gambuzza and Scott Missad
In their first Profitability Project podcast, Frank Gambuzza and Scott Missad talks about the importance of clearly establishing a brand and using it to manage your salon business.
by Stacey Soble
The Money Puzzle
It’s a simple fact of business. For almost every decision you make in your business, there’s a money factor involved.
by Stacey Soble
Money Matters: Coaching Your Way to Success
IN ONE-ON-ONE meetings with your team members you set goals, provide guidance and coach them to success, but who is coaching you?
by Stacey Soble
Finding Financing: Alternatives to Traditional Bank Loans
OVER TIME, one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners, including salons, is the ability to borrow money, and that’s only gotten tougher in our current economy.
by Stacey Soble
Taxing Times: Ways to Save on Your Return
As we worked on this story, Larry Kopsa was working hard on tax returns for this year’s April 17 filing date, but he took a quick break to give us some eye-opening tips for owners.
by Stacey Soble
Risky Business: Looking Into Liability Insurance
YOU’VE RISKED A LOT to build your business, but what are you doing to protect all that sweat equity? One careless mishap and your salon of cards could come tumbling down.
by Stacey Soble
Shelf Patrol: Inventory Management
HOW MUCH OF YOUR CASH is sitting on your shelves? How could you grow your business if you could free some of that investment, while still keeping your retail sales humming?
by Stacey Soble
The Profitability Project: Brand Vs. Individual
In this first installment of The Profitability Project, business leaders Scott Missad and Frank Gambuzza illustrate the importance of clearly establishing a brand and using it to manage your salon.
by Stacey Soble
The Profitability Project
In a one-on-one interview with Editor in Chief Stacey Soble, Missad and Gambuzza describe the new venture and how it can impact the future for all salon owners.
Strategies 2012
Strategies offers owners top-quality business education that works.
Kopsa Otte CPAs and Advisors 2012
Kopsa Otte CPAs and Advisors are trusted advisors in all aspects of salon business, including accounting, commission structures, benchmarks, budgeting, selling and buying a business and tax planning.
Tornado Relief Cut-A-Thon
Angus Mitchell and his Angus Mitchell Salon Beverly Hills staff recently held a special ‘Tornado Relief Cut-A-Thon’ to help the American Red Cross raise money for the victims of the Joplin, Missouri tornado disaster. Read the details
Team Strategies Rides for the MS Society
Team Strategies bikes 150 miles for Multiple Sclerosis. Read about their journey.
Industry Technology Experts Weigh In On Increasing Profitability
We tapped some the industry’s leading technology experts to ask: How does your technology help salons increase profitability?
What's Your Silver Lining?
As any small business owner will agree, the changes that our economy has been through in the past few years have been challenging at best. Tightening our entrepreneurial belts has been an unfortunate fact of business life in order to weather the downturn. Some say things are turning around and we're on our way back up. Did we learn anything from the experience? Was there a silver lining?