As New York's Salon AKS celebrates its 20th anniversary, the salon's founders, Alain Pinon, Kao Hui and Susanna Romano share the strategies of their success.
The new Salon Clouds Plus app creates a digital profile of each client and uses the data to increase retail sales, referrals and customer retention.
From information access to selfies, Shortcuts' Richard Wildey offers 8 ways to leverage technology to engage your young team members.
As the Salon Today 200 prepares to celebrate the best and the brightest in 2017, we pause to reflect on how far salon business has come in our 20-year history.
Meet the second half of our 2017 Salon Today 200 Growth Honorees. When a salon or spa masters a number of best business practices, it often fuels its growth. The resulting momentum, as well as the extra resources, often encourage the business and its team to continue to expand as they seek success.
By excelling in a number of best practices, a salon creates the momentum that engages teams, excites clients and results in growth. And, growth in turn provides the resources needed to reach future goals. Here are the first 50 2017 Salon Today 200 Honorees in the category of Growth.
Meet the 2017 Salon Today 200 Honorees in the category of Technology. In today's fast-paced world, technology plays a critical role in boosting a salon and spa to the next lever--from communicating with guests, measuring and motivating team members and keeping all systems running strong.
Announcing the 2017 Honorees in the category of Salon Culture. Culture is that invisible, yet tangilbe, energy that binds and propels a team and attracts clients. A strong culture is hard to define and even more difficult to build. But when mastered, these salons are unstoppable.
Meet the 2017 Salon Today 200 Honorees in the category of Retention and Referral. These owners know a salon's ability to attract new clients fuels its growth, while its ability to get those ame clients to come back again and again drives its overall success.
Meet the 2017 Salon Today 200 honorees in the field of Planned Profitability. By predicting and planning fo profit and keeping a vigilant watch over expenses, these owners are building sustainable salons and spas that stand strong without relying on their income as service providers.
