Salon Management
Service Spotlight: Purifying Lodge Retreat
The Spa at Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid, New York designed a service coordinated to the theme of the spa, creating a cohesive and exclusive atmosphere for guests. With ingredients like cypress leaves and juniper berries, the service, called ...
7 Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder
At Empowering You Consulting, Amy Carter says that working smarter, not harder, boosts productivity, enhances your creativity and saves energy. For information on her company’s Booth Renter’s Boot Camp, email: ...
How to Turn Your Front Desk Into a Profit Center
Front desk employees are one of the most valuable aspects of your business. Your front desk should do more than just answer phones, book appointments, and ring-out clients. If that’s all that they do, then they are a cost center: an ...
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Introducing Inspire: A Night Celebrating Beauty Entrepreneurs
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) and Cosmoprof North America (CPNA) recently announced INSPIRE: A Night Celebrating Beauty Entrepreneurs. INSPIRE, to be held Saturday, July 23rd, will kick-off PBA’s Beauty Week and the CPNA ...
by Anne Moratto
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 ...
by Stacey Soble
Innovate or Detonate
The best and most successful salons are those that constantly innovate, says Shannon King, the co-owner of Hair & Co BKLYN and the newly appointed ambassador to Exthand Shears. In this blog, King offers some powerful advice on how to drive ...
by Stacey Soble
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 ...
by Stacey Soble
Culture Club: Bobby Cooper Salon
With a healthy clientele and a happy staff, Bobby Cooper Salon in Indianapolis receives a lot of positive word-of-mouth marketing. Throw in a healthy dose of social media, and co-owner Sarah Cooper says it’s their happy guests who are ...
Construction Begins on Hair & Co BKLYN
The salon is finally under construction; it’s been a long process to get here. As a stylist, CEO and a woman who loves the finished product of new construction and has no interest in DIY, it’s now time to put on my hard hat and ...
by Allyson King
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: Signatures Salon
Signatures Salon in Lake Charles, Illinois, is a prime example of a business that leverages its culture to drive its business decisions. Several years ago, Owner Wendy White McCown charged her leadership team with developing the salon’s ...
by Stacey Soble
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, ...
by Stacey Soble
Culture Club: Maximum FX
Chris Murphy, who co-owns three Maximum FX salons with Javier Herrera, came to the salon industry with a background in finance. They bought the original salon in 2002 and expanded into a second location in 2006. Currently, there are three ...
by Stacey Soble
Culture Club: Studio Be
About five years ago, Ian and Beth Weber got their entire Studio Be team together to talk about the concept of core values and how these values could drive the business forward. “We wanted a road map to govern decisions and conduct ...
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 ...
by Stacey Soble
Healthy Outlook
A new industry report shows strong growth for the beauty industry along with some significant shifts.
Beauty bandits
After a string of Chicago-area robberies, salon owners and employees are reminded to take extra security measures.
by Jamie Newman