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What happens to a 16-employee spa when it’s leaders are gone for six weeks and it needs to reopen after the shutdown? Here is the story of how Natural Remedies Spa’s team rose to the challenge to not only reopen — but continue it’s rockstar productivity performance. Read More

Salon Owner Spotlight: Sarah McGee Mariman, owner of Thirty Hair in Columbia, MD, and winner of the 2020 Team-Based Pay Business of the Year Award. In 2014, Sarah’s first salon filed for bankruptcy and closed. A few months later she opened Thirty Hair, and for the last six years has hit goal 84% of the time, and has grown 30% in each of the past two years. Now in 2020, Thirty Hair is in its best financial shape ever, and just signed a lease for a much-needed expansion — with funding for the buildout coming out of cash reserves. Read More

Here they are!!! We're happy to celebrate and honor the 8 salons, spas & medspas that exhibited superior performance and financial successes in 2020 using Strategies Team-Based Pay compensation program. Read More

If your salon/spa's productivity is 70% or less, you have plenty of hours available to make phone calls to clients. Here is how one owner is calling clients to increase productity and fill up the appointment book. Read More

With such a high level of economic uncertainty as we enter the Holiday Season and winter months, salon, spa and medspa owners must be on their “whatever it takes” leadership game. Here are six strategies to get and stay on your “whatever it takes” leadership game. Read More

If you own an employee-based salon or spa, you will have to deal with problem employees. Here are six strategies to effectively deal with problem employees — and to minimize their occurrence. Read More

Salons and spas have struggled with pricing pretty much forever — especially when it’s time to raise prices. In this blog post, we give you the why, what and how to begin pricing your services by the hour, or fraction of an hour. Read More

In this blog post, we take the mystery out of projecting monthly salon/spa service and retail sales. We give you three simple projecting rules to follow. And, we give you the FOUR key variables and how to adjust them to fit your unique situation. Read More

They used to be called “receptionists.”Smile. Be pleasant. Answer the phone. Book appointments. Check clients in and out. What could be easier?FACT:... Read More

In this blog post, we discuss the THREE likely scenarios salons and spas are into — and offer our recommendations on what to do next. Read More