EDUCATION
Recruiting for Retention
Hiring new stylists can be a bit like dating. The stylist and the salon owner must get to know one another, present their best selves and then find something in common. Fiona Tolunay, co-owner of Vanity Salon (with mom Glennis and brother Rory) in Houston, Texas, knows just how to make her business irresistible to [...]
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Picture Perfect: Engaging Your Team With In-Salon Photoshoots
About four years ago, St. Petersburg, Florida, salon owner Joe Connell decided to take a chance on something he had never tried before—a formal photo shoot with his staff. He had played around a bit with amateur shoots at his J.Con Salon Spa, but hadn’t really delved into the creative world of professional photo sessions. [...]
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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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Online Education from LearnAveda
The new year is nearly three months old—how are those resolutions going? Did you resolve to broaden your education in 2015? Aveda is making it easy to take classes this year with its new, innovative online education program: LearnAveda.
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Running With Scissors: Why Struggling Professionals Should Be Sprinting to the Hair Industry
As a hair stylist lucky enough to have enjoyed a long run on a makeover show on national television, I am often approached by people with a burning question: “What’s the big secret of beauty?”
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