salon management

Protecting Your Greatest Asset with a Non-Compete Agreement

Non-compete agreements are essential to maintaining a successful business. Customers frequently remain loyal to their stylists, not the salon. Crafting legally binding, non-compete agreements protects your company's most valuable asset: the ...

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Strategic Hiring

The first step in growing your salon business is surrounding yourself with the right team, says Andrew Dale, founder of Unite who also teaches the Paramount Business program to member salons.“Finding the right people is about creating a ...

Brooklyn is Our Muse

Have you ever wanted to open a salon? We did.  And after 20+ years in corporate America, we are finally doing it.  Join us on our journey as we bring the know-how of big business to our own salon, Hair & Co BKLYN.We're the King ...

STAMP 2015: Red 7's Salon Signage

Changemakers Floor GraphicRed 7 SalonsEvanston and Chicago, IllinoisOwned by: Jason Hall and David KaferAs part of Red 7’s Changemakers campaign, the owners wanted to show that the salon can tackle a complicated head of hair and give the ...

Living the New Dream

After 20-plus year in the corporate arena of professional beauty, Allyson and Shannon King are ready to put their well-worn suitcases in storage and open up a salon a neighborhood close to their home in Brooklyn, New York.Both felt they were ...

Put Your Business on Loop HR Software

Loop HR, a 24-hour, cloud based, on-line salon management HR facility that enables management and staff to share valuable information and maximize employee performance, was founded by Ian Egerton to provide affordable business support services ...

Pandora's Box of Social Media: 7 Things You Must Do

Odds are, everyone reading this has opened the Pandora’s Box of social media for their salon. It’s a mistake not to, because there are so many wonderful opportunities inside. However, oncethe box is open, you must be very careful to ...

The Business Down the Street

As Theodore Roosevelt famously said, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” It can be a thief in business too.Recently, I posted the the image to the left to Instagram with the following message: “Often when working with small ...

Next in Line: Family Matters

When Denise and Ron Provenzano launched their first Zano Salons location in Naperville, Illinois, in 1985, their sons were young. “Like most new salon owners, our topic of conversation was always about Zanos whether we were around the ...

Roots Run Deep at the 2 to 10 Conference

As a teenager, I cut my journalistic teeth working at my parent’s small- town, community newspaper. While the last career I wanted to pursue at the time was journalism, it was good pay for a summer job and my bosses were fairly flexible ...