Salon Management
Salon Tour: Dry Art Blow Dry Bar & Salon
Dry Art Blow Dry Bar & SalonLexington, Kentuckydryartlex.com Owner: Sharla HillDate of Opening: November 2013Overall Style: eclectic, urban chic, rustic modernSquare Footage: 2,000Total Design Investment: $256,051Styling Stations: ...
The Art of Creativity
Service providers and retailers outside the beauty industry have had to compete with the increasing growth of Internet sales. This has resulted in a number of retailers led by Apple, implementing a radical business model that required creative ...
by Stacey Soble
Join HairRaising in Helping Sick Children During National Cut-A-Thon
On Sunday, April 12, salons throughout United States will participate in the HairRaising Cut-a-Thon, a massive, one-day fund-raising event benefitting Boston Children’s Hospital, the #1 Pediatric Hospital and Research Center in the ...
by Stacey Soble
Caruh's 'We Love People Like You' Campaign
In designing a client recruitment campaign, Cyndi DeSoto, owner of Caruh Salon Spa in Seattle, Washington, started paying attention to the people with whom her team associated.“In building a relationship business, I wanted our new guests ...
by Stacey Soble
On the Grid: Mapping Out Success
Recently, almost every member of the Nuovo salon group (three salons in the Sarasota, Florida, area with another opening in 2015) attended a Qnity + Aveda training session. The program is set up to make tracking numbers more intuitive to the ...
by Stacey Soble
Millennium's Speak Up Hits Miami
Millennium International announces plans for a second stop for Speak Up, the company’s educational road show, in Miami, January 12. The on-the-go business conference welcomes spa and salon owners and managers to attend, encouraging them to ...
by Stacey Soble
18th Annual Salon Today 200: Portraits of Success in Salon and Spa Business
For nearly two decades, SALON TODAY has taken the pulse of salon and spa business through our Salon Today 200 competitions. Each summer, applicants across North America painstakingly fill out pages of detailed questions about every aspect of ...
by Stacey Soble
Avoid Stagnation in 2015
Hooray and welcome to 2015! The dawn of a new year always turns thoughts to new growth and new opportunities. What do you have planned for the next 365 days? Have you thought about it? Or was 2014 a pretty good year in your salon so you’re ...
by Stacey Soble
Salon Tour: W Salon and Spa in Coral Springs, Florida
W Salon and Spa9561 Westview DriveCoral Springs, Florida www.wsalonspa.comOwner: Steve WeissEstablished: 2013Square footage: 7000Styling stations: 35Spa treatment rooms: 4Overall Style: Upscale ModernRetail: Bumble and Bumble, Moroccan Oil, ...
Salon Tour: XO Studio in Chicago, Illinois
XO Studio3428 N. Broadway Chicago, ILwww.xostudiochicago.comOwner: Charles BonannoEstablished: 2013Square footage: 3,010Overall Style: Sleek, upscale, professionalRetail: Kevin Murphy, Moroccanoil, Label MColor Line: WellaFurniture: ...
Signature Spotlight: Claude Baruk's Signature Five-Step Cut
There is beauty in simplicity. Claude Baruk, owner of Claude BARUK Salon at Wynn, in Las Vegas, has crafted his Women’s Signature Five-Step Cut that he and his team believe works great on any client. The wet-cut technique makes for ...
by Stacey Soble
Salon Social Culture, So What?
You’ve heard of ethnic culture, work culture, brand culture, and probably hundreds of other types of cultures that you’re supposed to pay attention to when moving cities, seeking jobs or joining clubs. Culture has become such a ...
by Stacey Soble
2015 Salon Today 200: Philanthropy
On a daily basis, the staff of a salon or spa give of their time, talents and spirit to each and every client. When that giving energy is channeled by the business for a philanthropy, the local community or a cause benefits as the salon or spa ...
by Stacey Soble
MINDBODY Launches Big Goals, Big Rewards Competition
It’s time to make your New Year’s resolution, and this year the stakes are high for choosing a great business goal. MINDBODY, a global provider of web and mobile business management solutions for the health, wellness and beauty ...
by Stacey Soble
2015 Salon Today 200: Advanced Education
A steady infusion of advanced education keeps a salon’s team on-trend, motivated, creative and at the top of their game. In return, this renewed spirit fuels the salon’s sales and leads to growth. We asked ST200 applicants in this ...
by Stacey Soble
2015 Salon Today 200: Recruitment & Training
Recruiting a team that best fits your culture and training them to your exact standards lays the foundation for success in the future. We invited ST200 applicants to write to a graduating student and describe their methods for cultivating ...
by Stacey Soble
2015 Salon Today 200: Retail and Merchandising
One of the most challenging management tasks in the salon is to motivate staff to retail products, but those who succeed quickly discover a path to higher profits. To challenge applicants in this category, we asked them to put together a ...
by Stacey Soble