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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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Social Media: Are You Keeping Up?
Terry McKee, co-owner (with James Amato) of Nuovo salons in Sarasota, Florida, remembers a time when he did not allow his staff to carry smart phones and tablets on the floor when they were seeing clients. Times have changed though, and so has McKee’s outlook on technology—especially social media.
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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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