Salon Management
The Business of Skin Care
Are you thinking about moving beyond hair cuts and color? Here are the 12 need-to-know answers before you add facial or body treatments to your beauty offerings and make the leap to full service.
The Business of Hair Color
Color your salon green with revenues from high-profit hair color services.
Selling with a Smile
The stylists actually look with anticipation to an extra little “happy face” icon included with their paycheck packages.
A Tighter Inventory
Big Mistake: To free up some of her time, Robin Halter turned over the ordering of inventory to her front desk personnel with one warning, “Don’t let us run out of anything.”
Recovery Room
Big Mistake: When Mary Volker planned her new spa space two years ago, she noted the new trend for dual services for couples and girlfriends.
Natural Haven
Two spas in an exclusive Georgia enclave redefine luxury.
The Genius in Geometry
This Texas salon keeps spinning with its circular decor.
Bit o' Honey
Chicago's Honey Child Salon and Spa opens an outpost in a Mexico resort town.
Quiet Contemporary
This Dallas salon makes smart use of color to achieve modern style.
Low Risk, High Profit Spa
Easy spa services done in the styling chair mean low risk, high profit.
Best in Spa
It’s easy to point to the crown jewel on your spa service menu, but do you fully realize the hidden talents of your other services?
by Stacey Soble
Seasons of Opportunity
To capture today’s lucrative gift sales year-round, you’ve got to learn how to compete with the big boy retailers.
by Stacey Soble
Changing Web and Customer Relations
Read the experiences of several salon owners who made a marketing overhaul.
Stylish Mullet
A salon with an unfashionable name becomes an unlikely trendsetter.
The Business of Branding
All the great brands in corporate America have succeeded through the same process. Follow their path as you learn to build, grow and maintain your brand.
by Stacey Soble
Salon and Schools
Strengthening your salon's relationship with local schools.
Retaining and Retraining
Employee turnover is not only disappointing and frustrating, but costly to your salon as well. Keeping your salon’s culture positive and healthy is key to retain your best staffers, and Strategies’ Keri Manuel, vice president of education, offers these tips to develop the growth potential in your staff.