
The 5th Annual Salon Today Total Salon Makeover Kicks Off
With the support of three generous professional beauty partners—Keune, Minerva and STX—SALON TODAY’s Total Salon Makeover competition helps one salon grow to the next level.

With the support of three generous professional beauty partners—Keune, Minerva and STX—SALON TODAY’s Total Salon Makeover competition helps one salon grow to the next level.

Following the success of its #30DaystoGrow challenge last Spring, Phorest Salon Software organizes a fun week of daily challenges to encourage participating salon teams to focus on retail, fueling sales.

Chicago Stylist and educator Coral Lahiani has found the solution to her retail dilemmas.
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With Pocket Salon, SalonBiz answers the client's demand for online retail sales, as well as help with booking an appointment and checking out.

Aveda introduces a new integrated e-commerce retail sales solution designed in collaboration with salons to help them boost their profits.
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In a recent webinar, Dilan DeSilva, founder of Salon Clouds Plus, shared with us several strategies for using technology to increase retail sales. To simplify the strategies, he broke them down into four quadrants.

Let’s face it, we use our phones for everything—from making phone calls to texting to taking pictures for social media—so, why not use it for one more very important thing: managing your business?

Now that the page has turned on the calendar, it's time to start planning and enacting your marketing efforts for 2018. SalonTarget offers you some tips to get you started.

Salon Today is always on the lookout for savvy business advice, and we recently found great reads on these topics on Aveda Means Business. Get more info about Aveda’s new Full Spectrum Demi+ Line; Learn how one master colorist produces $500,000 in retail and service revenue each year. Boost your bottom line; hear what you can expect at Serious Business 2018; and see what one salon does to show client appreciation.
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Novvo Etopa has debuted a new universal retail shelving system that includes a brand new Luxe Retail Shelving Unit as well as LED Lit Headers.

"Salon services and retail products must always be combined into one conversation. If you only present salon service options, you are only doing half of your job."

On the 8th day of the 12 Days of the Salon Today 200, we celebrate the salons and spas who rally around retail, creating beautiful displays and enticing promotions, as well as answering clients' needs with education and recommendations.

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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With his latest eye-opening blog, Eurisko's Leon Alexander gives owners advice on the future of the industry--cleverly organized by Beatles' titles.

As he launches The Salon Project within Saks Fifth Avenue, Joel Warren designs a salon concept the elevates hairdressers as artists and gives them more control over the client appointment, treats the client to a more serene, bespoke seamless experience; and streamlines systems allowing for more business growth.

In an effort to continue attracting a young, fashion-forward shopper and drive overall store traffic, JCPenney reinvents its salon concept with The Salon by InStyle while also rolling out Sephora inside JCPenney. Natalie Lockhart, vice president of salon at JCPenney tells us how this strategy is working out.