
Nick Arrojo's 12 Tips for Cutting Through the Amazon Jungle
In a series of frank dialogues with owners and stylists around the country, Nick Arrojo gets to the bottom of how salons can compete in today’s crazed retail world.

In a series of frank dialogues with owners and stylists around the country, Nick Arrojo gets to the bottom of how salons can compete in today’s crazed retail world.

The team at Interlocks creates a travel-inspired merchandising display to introduce clients to Kerastase, earning it a 2017 STAMP award.

ID Salon launches an anti-bullying campaign with a video where team member shared their stories, an in-salon retail campaign and a live auction. The campaign earns it a STAMP 2017 award.

With Salon Today's third installment of Beauty Pulse, a salon owner poll, we're checking up on salons' plans for a business holiday season.

Salon Today's cover owner Nick Arrojo to coach beauty pros how to cut through the Amazon jungle and ensure retail success in a class at the Goldwell Academy in Santa Monica, California, August 28.

At the Data-Driven Salon event, Van Council, co-owner of the Van Michael Salons and Spas in Atlanta, shares how he leverages data for everything, including helping team members and salon locations achieve goals and reach new compensation levels.

Allyson King of Hair+Co. BKLYN and Beauty 360 Consulting Group walks you through the data points of retail success and gives you strategies for engaging your team.

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.

Business is always changing and salon owners need to know the next best practices if they don’t want to be left in the dust. Aveda Means Business has been sharing articles on the ways business is shifting between you and your staff, as well as you and your clients. These are the discussions to be involved in to stay ahead of the curve.
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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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Before she takes the stage at the Data-Driven Salon event in Atlanta June 25-26, Hair and Co. BKLYN's Allyson King shares her goal-setting process with her employees and it all starts with the big picture.

Before he takes the stage at Data-Driven Salon in June, Monty Howard talks about how he uses data to get the team's buy-in on sales strategy, as how to make a point in one-on-one meetings.

Salon industry veteran Alan Benfield Bush offers some tips for how to evaluate your product mix and how to set measurable retail goals.

Rosy Software's Jim Bower is back with a blog filled with different strategies for suggestive selling, which can boost the salon's bottom line.

It has been a problem in our industry for years - retailing. Many salon pros have trouble seeing beyond the artistry and find it difficult to sell products to their clients. In this brief video Cody Fullerton of Living Proof confronts the situation and shares why salon pros should encourage their clients to buy products to maintain their hair between salon visits.

Abergel was drawn to the brand by the results of the products, which are formulated with protein Alpha Keratin 60ku. This protein is recognized by the body as its own and is pulled to where it is needed in the hair to smooth, resurface and fill in cracks of damage.

The distributor of professional salon products is opening a store in West Hollywood, CA.