Salon Management
Empathy & Engagement are the Secret Sauce for Post-Pandemic Success
As 'quiet-quitting' continues to trend, bosses and managers need to evolve their leadership skills--becoming more compassionate, engaging with staff, developing their empathetic skills and celebrating both individual and group success.
Strategies Team-Based Conference Helps Owners Explore Growth
Get your tickets for Strategies' Team-Based Conference before tickets go up this Saturday!
by Stacey Soble
Top Shelf: Profit First for Salons
Profit First for Salons, a new book by Salon Cadence's Ronit Enos, teaches owners how to master their numbers, scale their profits and position their businesses to reach new heights. In this video interview, Enos discusses the concept behind the book's blueprint for sucesss and shares some of its illuminating business stories.
by Stacey Soble
Supercharge Your Salon with Business Management Software
Running a salon takes work. Between keeping guests and employees happy, managing finances, and drumming up business through marketing, you have your hands full as a salon owner. The good news is that technology can help you by automating and simplifying many of your routine tasks, so you have more time for the exciting aspects of being a business owner. But how do you choose the right business management tool from the countless options out there?
Weather Worries Driving Salons to Look at Water Conservation
With pockets of drought throughout the country and a summer of record-high temps, salon owners are looking for ways to reduce water usage. Sustain Beauty Co. offers these top tips.
How to Successfully Navigate High Inflation--and Possible Recession
Strategies' Neil Ducoff offers 5 sound strategies for tackling raising costs and preparing your business for possible recession.
by Neil Ducoff
Keeping Up with the Demand for Digital Payments
As clients search for more convenient ways to pay and more personal methods to tip, Tippy answers the call with instant tip delivery, zero tip-processing fees for owners and an average 22.3% increase in tips through personalized messaging.
A New Way for Salons to Earn More Revenue
The new Intense Brow(n)s system from RefectoCil lets you tint clients’ brows with an FDA-compliant formula. Generate new revenue and give a finishing touch for color customers and those with skimpy brows. Intrigued? Here are eight important things to know about Intense Brow(n)s.
Sponsored by CBON Group
Accuracy in Color Pricing Yields New Revenue
Vish's intelligent color management software enables salons to use color more precisely by helping them avoid color waste, cut color expenses, and gain insight about client's formulas for more accurate color use. Find out how Vish can provide your salon new opportunities for profit.
Sponsored by Vish
SALON TODAY 200: LoneStar Salon & Spa Is Planning (Always)
The owner of the west coast salon puts systems in place to manage both routines and surprises.
How Ecoheads is Helping Salons Battle Water Inequality
Hardwater can impact your service results because a buildup of metals can dull hair, cause it to droop and change color results. For Water Quality Month, Ecoheads drafted a water quality map so you can understand how this issue impacts you.
The Most Remote-Friendly Workplaces in the United States
As working remotely becomes more and more acceptable, it's impacting the way clients book their appointments in positive ways. A new study sets out to determine the most remote-friendly workplaces in the United States.
The Journey from Hair Educator to Tech Innovator
As the driving force behind the AI company Valise Suite, Jamie Carroll transitions from renowned hair educator to a tech innovator, and helps salons tackle customer service, manage web presence and provide video content.
Finding Meaning in Life's Messes: The Book "Easier" Shows You How
Chris Westfall's book "Easier" turns frustration into authentic and lasting transformation, providing readers with 60 ways to shift their perspectives to find purpose and possibility in life's challenges.
by Stacey Soble
Salon Finance
A crash course on the important things to consider, and common mistakes to avoid, when it comes to money flowing in and out of your business
8 Tips for Great Team Building
Building a strong team and enforcing it by constantly cultivating your team culture is one of your most important roles as the salon's owner. But it isn't easy. Vish's Tim Howard offers up 8 great solid steps to get you started.
SALON TODAY 200: Urban Betty Issues Stock!
Inspired by her coach and what happened when her husband's company was sold, Austin owner Chelle Neff encourages her senior team to own a piece of the salon Urban Betty.