
5 Ways to Identify and Recruit New Salon Team Members
Every town has that one shop or salon that never has hiring challenges. This does not happen by accident.

Every town has that one shop or salon that never has hiring challenges. This does not happen by accident.

Van Michael's Van Council and Susan Dykstra share 300,000 hours worth of salon management experience with a new kit designed to help salons grow.

At SALON TODAY, we're always on the lookout for best practices and how-to case studies from salon owners on making business more efficient and profitable, and encourage our community to search for and share solutions. Here is a collection of success stories recently added to the Aveda Means Business blog. This series covers hiring strategies, strengthening retail with new promotion ideas, and helping staff grow color revenue.
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Positions need to be filled in your salon ideally with good, solid candidates. Here's how you get them!
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For Juut's new artist salon Intoto, Imaginal Marketing designs a cool recruitment piece, earning the salon a 2017 STAMP award.

Fusion Salon develops a recruitment blog that walks potential candidates through the hiring process, earning it more applicants and a 2017 STAMP award.

Discover the results to our first Beauty Pulse survey on staff meetings, discover salon owners' favorite ways of engaging team members, and participate in the next survey.

Being a salon owner means managing the education of stylists, retention of staff, progress of profits and more. Inevitably, there are land mines in all of these areas and the path to success is not always clear. We've explored the Aveda Means Business blog and found stories of several salon owners who think outside the box to find solutions to common small-business struggles. Read about the areas where their businesses struggled and what they did to implement systems that work.

Salon ownership is about innovation; implementing new methods that will grow business and client satisfaction is key. At SALON TODAY, we're always on the lookout for accounts from salon owners on ways that they have made their business more efficient and profitable. Here are a collection of success stories gathered by Aveda Means Business which outline paths to gaining referrals, growing retail sales, implementing online booking and hiring smart.
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From information access to selfies, Shortcuts' Richard Wildey offers 8 ways to leverage technology to engage your young team members.

In Hue Salon in Houston, Texas, owners Alan Conover and Cion Ortego developed a style of interviewing that helps them identify candidates who are easy to work with and calm under pressure. See how they do it.

Anthony Garubo, owner of Anthony Garubo Salon in Maplewood, NJ, learned the hard way how create a staff that would stay. “Decades ago, I was arrogant, and I had a devastating walk out,” recalls Garubo. “Now, I know I ...

When you’re opening a new salon, finding talent can be tricky especially when targeting a team willing to service all types and textures of hair. We also wanted at least one specialist in each discipline. We will be ...

When you’re opening a new salon, finding talent can be tricky especially when targeting a team willing to service all types and textures of hair. We also wanted at least one specialist in each discipline. We will be ...

While a salon’s ability to attract new clients fuels its growth, it’s ability to get those clients to come back, and come back frequently, drives its success. These SALON TODAY 200 honorees have designed solid programs for attracting ...
Salon Rootz’ Sheila Barco and Jen Tryon create an independent space for senior stylists ready for the next step.

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 ...