Salon Management

Who Comes First, Your Client or Your Employee?

Every business owner knows you need both employees and customers to survive, but when it comes to prioritizing in order of importance, who comes first—the employees or the customers? Of course, most would argue the customer always comes ...

Virtual Network Computing at Charles Penzone

With a six-location operation headquartered in Powell, Ohio, Charles Penzone Salons depends on VNC Viewer to minimize problem-solving downtime when computer issues arise. This virtual network computing (VNC) technology allows Penzone’s IT ...

Save the Date: PBA Executive Summit in Scottsdale, Dec. 3-4, 2015

The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) will be hosting the PBA Executive Summit taking place on Thursday, December 3 - Friday, December 4, 2015 in Scottsdale, Ariz. This two-day event is designed exclusively for upper-level management and ...

Soothe Massage On-Demand Service and App Now Available in Chicago

Chicago residents can finally relax knowing that Soothe massage-on-demand service is now available to deliver welcome relief to sore, aching muscles and joints.  Soothe is a new mobile service and app that allows clients to book a same-day ...

Paul Mitchell Business Revolution: Advice from John Paul and Michaeline DeJoria

The first Paul Mitchell Business rEvolution conference is underway, focusing on developing salon owners, independent stylists and sales professionals to become successful entrepreneurs and business people.  Taking place in Las Vegas, NV at ...

The Third Place and Subliminal Messaging

The salon of the future will not survive on hair services alone. It will have to be supplemented with other reasons the consumer will want to visit. We need to ensure that consumers view our businesses as “The Third Place.” Your home ...

How to Gain Your Team's Emotional Commitment

Great leaders, including salon owners and managers, realize in order to get people follow them, they have to turn what’s important to them into a compelling cause for others to follow.How do you do that? Find out what’s most ...

Verb Products Launches Ghost Hairspray

For weightless, medium hold and brushable texture, Verb is launching its Ghost Hairspray in September 2015.

Progressions Salon Launches Back-to-School Backpack Drive to Benefit the National Center for Children and Families

Progressions salon spa store in Rockville, Maryland, is sponsoring a Back-to-School Backpack Drive to benefit The National Center for Children and Families in Bethesda, Maryland. Progressions will be collecting age appropriate school supplies ...

5 Strategies to Improve Your Male Clients' Salon Experience

This summer, men are looking for versatile styles and a convenient salon experience that won’t slow them down.

Media Relations: The Lost Art of the Press Release

One of the most often overlooked promotional opportunities is the press release. They can be mildly intimidating to those who haven’t written them in the past, or for those who don’t have anexisting relationship with someone in the ...

Rental Realities: A First Look

As publisher of the Modern Salon, SALON TODAY and First Chair magazines and online platforms, MODERN SALON Media is unique in covering and working with all segments of the professional salon industry—from cosmetology students to stylists ...

The New Tools of the Trade

Move over shears, blowdryers and color brushes! Technology is arming stylists and owners with a whole array of tools—from Apple watches to selfie stations to management apps to build a stronger salon business.For Salon Today's ...

How to Use Your Website to Boost Email Marketing

To make the most of your e-marketing you need subscribers – the more the merrier. In the final part of a three-blog series on ways to boost your database, Paul Tate of Shortcuts outlines the wonders of the website as a way to increase the ...

This Money-Making Service Will Help Grow Your Salon Business

In today’s world, it’s not enough to offer a complete line of beauty services for your clients. You also need to offer the best money-making services to keep your salon growing and producing top dollar sales and revenue. We spoke to ...

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Tech Talk

Technology can come in the form of better management tools for salon owners, more efficient means of communicating with a client or the newest social platform for sharing what’s new. This month we ask industry leaders to tell us: ...

Genuine Mr. Nice Guy

Look up “busy” in the dictionary, and you just may see Eric Fisher’s picture. Between managing his three eponymous salons and a cosmetology school in Wichita, Kansas, traveling the country as a platform artist with Aquage, and ...