EDUCATION
When To Let A Stylist Go (And How To Avoid It)
While it’s tempting to keep a high-performing employee despite a bad attitude, salon owners agree it’s usually not worth it.
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Serious Business 2020 Encourages Owners to Hit the ‘Reset’ Button
As the New Year turned the page on a new decade, Serious Business 2020, held Jan. 19-20 in New Orleans, encouraged approximately 1,800 owners, managers and beauty professionals to “Stop, reflect, breathe and RESET.”
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10 Tips To Recruit From Beauty Schools
“Everyone has the same problem when it comes to recruiting,” says Susan Haise, owner of the Institute of Beauty and Wellness and six Neroli salons in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, says. “No matter what part of the country you’re in or what type of salon you run, it all starts with the population coming out of high school.”
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10 Recruiting Tips To Build A Salon Dream Team
We spoke with Garrison Neill, director of business and marketing at Paris Parker Salons and Neill, and Tatum Neill, creative director at Paris Parker salons and co-founder of Elevate Hair, about their approach to recruitment and the strategies that have been most successful in hiring great stylists.
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Shine Service Builds Business and Confidence
Not only do shine services benefit the client, Connie Koecke, executive director of retail business at Aveda Arts and Sciences Institutes, has seen it benefit her stylists and front desk personnel at the 17 Institutes she oversees. It has helped students get more comfortable talking to guests and in turn, increased service revenue more than $46K.
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How Becoming Aveda Led to Growth for Two Salons
Source: Aveda Flickr Mike and Tracey Franklin have owned Loxx Salon and Spa in Cookeville, Tennessee for six years. In 2017, they moved to a new location, and in 2018, they took on Aveda as their primary hair care line. “Our intro package with Aveda was just hair—color, retail, etc.,” Tracey says. “But within the [...]
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Guests and Hair Loss: Are You Providing the Services They Need?
When a client sits in your chair and announces she will be losing her hair when she goes through chemotherapy, or that her hair is thinning to the point of baldness due to a medical condition, do you know how to help her? And do you know what her options are?
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Insider Tips for a Winning Salon Today 200 Application
Intimidated by the thought of entering Salon Today magazine’s elite Salon Today 200 competition? Not sure if your salon has what it takes to compete against hundreds of top-performing salons across the country? Salon Today Editor Stacey Soble is here to put your fears to rest. We asked her for the inside scoop on how to get on the prestigious ST 200 list and she delivered the goods—and then some.
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Not Your Ordinary Hair Show
When Tatum Neill created Elevate Hair, his goal was simple. He wanted to bring a community of hairdressers together for inspiration, music, performance and education. In the past year, he has achieved that with local Elevate shows across the country.
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