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Get Guests’ Information at Your Fingertips with Vagaro’s Forms Feature

To help Salons get COVID-Ready, Vagaro has updated its Forms feature, making it easier than ever for stylists to digitally send legal waivers, intake forms and surveys to customers prior to their appointment or after they have left the salon.

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Business Boost: How To Save Money On Your Team’s Tips

Every salon owner knows tips are a very big deal. Here's how to find ways to streamline tip payments, reduce fees incurred by tipping on credit cards, get tip money quickly, save time, and more.

5 Ways to Turn Editorial Hair into Everyday Salon Dollars

Ammon Carver, Chief Artistic Director for Ulta Beauty, paired with Cosmetologists Chicago to teach stylists how photo-shoot-ready hair can change the salon space.

HairHoncho: All-In-One Free App for a Better Way to Run Your Business

Built to streamline, simplify, and lead to success, this new app was created by a designer whose hairdresser wife needed a better scheduling system--so he made her one.

Barber Receives Grant to Create Safe Space in Shop for Neighborhood Kids

Donald (DC) Conley is the first barber to be awarded the #SchedulicityCares business grant of $5,000.00.

3 Important Financial Management “Tips” For Salon Owners

Are you dealing with credit card processing fees; tracking tips for taxes; even looking for ways to motivate your clients to tip your stylists well and often to supplement their incomes and keep them doing hair at your salon happily ever after? Tippy claims to reduce credit card processing fees for salon owners and increase tips for service professionals.

Salon Digital Summit: Setting Your Salon Social and Digital Objectives

Tech expert and beauty enthusiast influencer Sarah Bryant @sarah_louwho shared the stage with salon artist and educator  Chief Behr @chiefbehrhair  to talk about how to use social media for a variety of purposes.

Salon Digital Summit: Social Media Success, Step-by-Step, with Mane Addicts

From something as practical as making sure to wipe the camera lens to what kind of content performs well on social, this panel offered great insight on how stylists can use social media to build their business.

To Stock or Not to Stock? Extension Specialists Share How They Manage Inventory

Extension inventory is dependent of the nature of your business. Industry experts share their tips.

Is Being a Hairstylist a Low-Stress Job?

Depending on your clientele, salon culture and overall job satisfaction, adjectives used to describe your job as a hairstylist typically fall into the positive category. But would you agree that being a hairstylist is one of the least stressful jobs out there? According to a recent report, hairstylists rank as the second-least stressful job.

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