salon business

Warning: Your Clients may be Cheating on you "in the Shower"

Salons frustrated with clients playing hard to get when it comes to retail need to up the ante on their marketing efforts if they want to win them over, according to the latest installment in Shortcuts Software’s Cheating Clients video ...

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MINDBODY Launches Online Educational Program MBU On Demand

MINDBODY has launched MBU On Demand, an online educational program that was developed based on the success that their clients have experienced after attending MINDBODY University events over the last nine years. By offering MBU On Demand, ...

BIZ TIP: Smart Savings

Gina Rivera, founder of Phenix Suites, posts a business tip on the company’s website (phenixsalonsuites.com) every week as a handy resource for the solo artists who rent suite space from the organization. Here’s an ...

It’s All About The Percentage

It’s funny how percentages affect our lives. You can be president of our country with less than 50% off the votes, casinos make millions off just small percentages, and so do Visa and Master Card, and when you play the percentages long ...

Shifting From Basic Booth Renting to a Salon Suite

For Calynn Colceri, shifting to a suite from basic booth rental was an easy decision to make.

Going Up?

Business today is tough, as it’s always been. We used to think we were in a recession-proof business, but after the past recession we realized we might be recession-resistant but we are not recession-proof. The reality for us as ...

ST200 Owners Share Best Practices at America's Beauty Show

At a special, invitation-only gathering of top salon owners at America’s Beauty Show on March 22, five Salon Today 200 honorees shared their best business practices. At the special event sponsored by Groupon, Candy Shaw, owner of Jamison ...

Wella Salons Get Down to Business

Three days, two educators, a few dozen salon owners and scorecards full of telling numbers all merged for Wella’s launch of Servilles Business Education at the Wella Studio LA in late February.On the first day, Serville’s Paul ...

8 Tips to Make You a Self-Starter Hairdresser

Look through the job ads and you’ll see time and again employers looking for people who are self-starters, that happy face who can work on their own initiative without having to be constantly told what to do. Self-starters are ...

StyleSeat Launches in Chicago

Count Chicago in on the ever-growing action with StyleSeat, an online marketplace for booking beauty and wellness services. The platform added the Midwest hub to its list of more than 15,000 cities across the U.S. who use it. "We are ...