How To Conduct Amazing One-To-One Staff Feedback Meetings

A couple of months ago, one of our collaborators, Valerie Delforge illustrated how communication levels within your team had direct repercussions on your salon’s success. It’s one thing to make the resolution of meeting up with members of your team, but it’s another thing to conduct these meetings in an efficient manner. So whether you don’t … Continued

Two Of Your Salon Employees Are Dating: Now What?

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought it would be ideal to discuss the possible headache of having salon employees dating. A lot of managers are unsure of how to deal with these situations that could potentially be detrimental to the business.

How Salon Meetings Can Truly Help Motivate Your Team

Successful salon teams are the ones that make time for regular meetings- as teams and as individuals. However, finding the time to organize meetings can be difficult, sometimes making them scarce and disjointed. Communication within your salon or spa is one of the most important aspects of a smooth business operation. Let’s look at why it’s … Continued

The Guide To Dealing With Difficult Salon Staff

We’ve all had a difficult salon staff member at some point. I’m sure each of us has a story that sounds oh so familiar. Throughout my own career, I can think of many difficult situations and team members that have made things heavy going and negative.

Is This Legal? Dealing With Tricky Salon Staff Issues

First, imagine this scenario: a member of your team – let’s call her Sarah- goes out one night. She then posts a photo on Facebook at 1:00 AM in a Club with friends taking shots. Sarah texts in sick the next day. Ever ran into these sorts of salon staff issues and not known what to do … Continued

Should Beauty Salons Use Staggered Pricing?

In our last article, we discussed how to make pricing irrelevant. Today, we are going to follow that up with a new type of payment model: Staggered pricing. This is something that the hairdressing industry have been doing it for years. Why not the beauty industry? If you have 2 therapists in your salon and … Continued

Salon Motivation: The incredibly important lesson you can learn from the humble Jigsaw puzzle!

Most salon owners don’t do Jigsaws but ask those who’ve got small children if they do them and the answer is yes! But how does a child choose a puzzle they want to complete? The answer is always –> It’s the one with their favourite character on the front: Fireman Sam, Peppa Pig, Doc McStuffins, … Continued

Don't Let Business Problems Overwhelm Your Salon's Success – Simon Lotinga GUEST POST

If almost 20 years as a mentor, coach and consultant to salon owners has taught me anything, it’s that salon owners (enjoying long-term success) share one key attitude. This attitude is that they refuse to feel like a victim.

The Salon Insider's Guide to a Successful Commission Strategy

  Commissions can be an amazing driver and motivational tool for staff that can really help the business achieve their targets and goals. However, it can often times be difficult  for a business to decide on a standard commission structure or to know what will work best. Having worked with thousands of salons, I found … Continued