Salon Management
SALON TODAY 200: Spa Bleu Prioritizes Mental Health
The spa keeps a care team on retainer 24/7 to help staff smooth out the rough spots.
SALON TODAY 200: Gratitude Drives the Soleil Salon and Spa Culture
The New Hampshire business focuses on empathy to target homelessness and other causes.
How Inflation Intensifies Your Salon's Staffing Headaches
Recruiting and retaining talent it tougher than ever. Adding to that pressure is the impact of inflation which may making your team members feel stretched. It may even prompt them to entertain the idea of a career outside the industry. Stef Fox illustrates the conversation you need to have with your team right now.
SALON TODAY 200: Sean Rocco Fill Chairs Using Tech Tools
Data Axle helps the salon identify new residents to their area in Charlotte and target them via email or direct-mail. The owners are impressed with their ROI.
How to Avoid Being a Victim of a Salon Scammer
In a Dine-and-Dash fashion, a young woman strikes two Chicago salons, booking expensive services and ducking out before she pays the tab. Find out how you can protect yourself from this scam.
Profiles in Leadership: Virginia Meyer's Rise Through the Ranks
From working in distribution to managing multi-location salons to the vice president of education for Aveda, Virginia Meyer brings a lot of experience and wisdom into her New York-based salon.
by Stacey Soble
Profiles in Leadership: Roger Azadganian Forges Diamonds
The founder of Salon 8 and äz Craft Luxury Haircare believes getting fired by Gene Juarez propelled his career, that Yoga is his savior, and that his most important role as a leader is coaching others to be the best they can be.
by Stacey Soble
Profiles in Leadership: Lisa Vann Inspires through Creativity and Passion
A leading stylist and salon owner in the greater Seattle area for more than 30 years, Lisa Vann shares her talents by teaching hair cutting, coloring and texture services that help break down barriers and help today's artists approach hair more holistically. In an exclusive interview with SALON TODAY, she offers more insight into her leadership style.
by Stacey Soble
Increase Your Team Members’ Tips with Tippy
Tippy is an easy way for clients to give their stylist or barber personalized tips. For stylists, Tippy provides a debit card that makes their tips instantly accessible. Find out how Tippy can increase tips from clients who don't carry cash.
How to Restructure Your Mindset and Business
Burnout is an epidemic striking both stylists and salon owners. Here's how one owner took hers in hand by reevaluating how she looks at her time and value and what risks she was willing to take.
New COLOR.ME Gloss Ticks All the Demi-Permanent Boxes
Can you get brilliant color, restored strength and dazzling shine in a demi-permanent? The answer is now yes, thanks to the new COLOR.ME Gloss demi-permanent from Kevin Murphy. It comes in 30 shades and contains the unique KM.BOND², an advanced plant origin protein complex that creates new hair bonds inside the hair. See if this is the demi you’ve been dreaming of.
Sponsored by Kevin Murphy
An Angel, A Beauty Connection and the Gift of Life
How a wig consultation with a beautiful young girl led to a kidney transplant for Kao Salon Division's Anthony Soriano. Wigs & Wishes' Founder Martino Cartier shares this miraculous and heart-touching story in a video interview with SALON TODAY.
by Stacey Soble
Going from Comfort to Growth
As the leader of your business, you must take risks to grow. But the allure of comfort and the fear of the unknown hold us back. Dr. Leon Alexander offers eight solid steps that help you get out of your comfort zone and enter your growth zone.
The Era of Ingredient Shortages
Supply chain issues is one more post-pandemic concern, and may impact your ability to retail. While this blog from Bob Tilling is written more for manufacturers, it sheds some light on some of the reasons it's so hard to bring products to market in this era.
Embrace a Growth Mindset, Unlock Your Full Potential
A psychotherapist's new workbook is full of activities and exercises that help you identify limiting beliefs, calm the mind and turn negative thoughts into positive ones--helping you understand your current mindset and refocus it on growth.
86% of Americans Will Switch Salons to Follow Their Favorite Stylist
While salons strive to build lasting loyalty with their clientele, a new research report from Phorest Salon Software shows the lure of a favorite stylist is stronger.
by Stacey Soble
How Leading Salons Recruit, Interview and Hire Talent
Between the surge in demand for services and The Great Resignation, talent acquisition in the salon industry is a bigger challenge than ever before. It's time to change your recruitment strategy, and BeautyBackbone's Karla Lopez-Martinez is here to help.