On the Grid: Mapping Out Success
Recently, almost every member of the Nuovo salon group (three salons in the Sarasota area with another opening in 2015) attended a Qnity + Aveda training session. The program is set up to make tracking numbers more intuitive to the creative, right-brained stylist. “It’s a very Apple-esque approach,” says Nuovo co-owner Terry McKee (James Amato [...]
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Business Basics:Educating Your Staff
At Avalon Salon and Day Spa in Deer Park, Illinois, knowing and understanding numbers isn’t just for owners Bonnie Conte and Shyla Samel-Kurnick. The whole staff is privy to the salon’s stats (retail, prebooking, service), goals and even retention rates. Conte has found educating her stylists and front desk managers on the business aspect of [...]
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Are You a $100,000+ Hairdresser?
Ever feel like you’re toiling away on client after client, year after year with no end in sight? Are you seeing the same paycheck every week, every month, every year, despite rising costs in living? If this is the case, Van Michael Stylist and Founder/CEO of Six Figure Hairdresser, Harry Wood, says it’s time to [...]
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Fanning the Flame: How Juut Keeps Stylists Passionate
By nature, salons have high turnover rates. Stylists move to a new city, leave to start a family, quit to join a different salon or sometimes just drop out of the beauty business entirely. Unfortunately, there’s no way to combat some of these things—life happens and people come and go. But if you’re a salon owner, high turnover doesn’t have to be a mainstay in your business.
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Education Gets Personal
Advanced education in the salon is nothing new. Many salons offer excellent programs to further their stylists’ skills in coloring, cutting and styling. Salons with spas often offer advanced classes for estheticians as well. But for some salon professionals, that’s not enough—many stylists want to develop their personal skills as well. And in the beauty [...]
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