Our special May gatefold cover, featuring 10 top salon owners, leads into this month’s focus on a new breed of conference—the education excursion. Travel along to Carmel, California, as a group of salon owners from around the country enjoy mornings of great business speakers and afternoons of wine tastings, then experience how that generated a wealth of sharing of best business practices.
In a separate feature, learn how to design an impulse service as 30 salons share express offerings designed to tempt clients to sample another area of their menu. And, the owners of employee-based Salon Rootz explain how and why their newest salon venture is a luxury suite business.