Can A Nail Tech Assistant Help Your Salon?
Bartenders have barbacks, helping to keep glasses clean and bars well-stocked, and hair stylists have assistants, helping to clean and prep the hair for styling, so what about nail techs? Can hiring cosmetology students or new graduates as assistants help your salon make more money?
by Tim Crowley
Are Discount Salons a Threat?
When NAILS polled its readers about their top salon challenges, competition from discount salons ranked second on the list, just behind attracting and retaining new clients. But for every tech feeling the sting of low-priced competitors popping up on nearly every street corner, there are many who have made peace with the problem; some have even used the competition to spur them to adopt higher levels of customer service and more stringent sanitation standards.
Point of View: Advertising in Consumer Media
Do you think it's important for nail manufacturers to advertise in consumer media?
Point of View: Making a Salon Entertaining
If you had an unlimited budgest, what would you do to make your salon more entertaining for clients?
Blueprint of a First Year [Installment #2]
Opening your first salon can be the most exciting time of your life — and the most challenging. Follow along as salon owner blogger Robbie Schaeffer applies for construction permits, decides of design details, and starts the hiring process.
Salon Equipment Survey
Compare your salon to the salons of surveyed NAILS readers to find out which pieces of equipment are found most commonly in the salon.
Dear Shari Talks About Introducing a New Nail Tech
Veteran nail tech Shari Finger—owner of Finger’s Nail Studio in W. Dundee, III.—fields reader questions in the areas of salon management and workplace politics.
Learn How to E-Organize
Can’t find your client’s phone number or that note you made about the product system you used on her last? Are you in a panic when tax time approaches and your records are nowhere at hand? If your organizational skills are lacking, here are three software programs designed to help.
How to Take 15 Minutes Off Any Service
Develop a unique plan to make your services lean, mean, and profitable. Consider these real-life strategies to tame the clock, increase revenues, and stay on time.
50+ Places to Find New Techs
According to a NAILS’ survey, almost one in five salon owners has turned away clients because the salon lacks an adequate number of nail techs. But with a little creativity, it’s possible to reach out to candidates inside and outside the beauty industry and attract a new crop of recruits to the profession.
Vietnamese Survey Answers Many Questions, Begs Many More
The question I throw out isn’t why aren’t Vietnamese salons doing more to improve their sanitation practices, but why isn’t the industry doing more to make compliance more practical? I
Dear Shari Talks About Employees Receiving Services
How should you prioritize employees who want salon services? Should you even allow business-hours services for employees?
I Want You …. for My Salon: 50 Places to Find New Nail Techs
According to a NAILS’ survey, almost one in five salon owners has turned away clients because the salon lacks an adequate number of nail techs. But with a little creativity, it’s possible to reach out to candidates inside and outside the beauty industry and attract a new crop of recruits to the profession.
Ask the Webmaster: Common Questions About Using the Internet
Who are all those people on my AIM Buddy List? How do I get my photos online? What’s that green stuff on my client’s nails? Find out what questions BeautyTech.com webmaster Debbie Doerrlamm hears most often and how she responds.
Blueprint of a First Year
Opening your first salon can be the most exciting time of your life — but it can also be the most challenging. Robbie Schaeffer lets you in on the trials and tribulations of opening Rob|b: An OPI Concept Salon.
Talk to Me
There’s no escaping cell phone conversations and text messages today — or is there? Our readers tell us how they handle it when a client is blessed with the gift of gab.
What Type of Boss Are You?
Take this self-quiz to determine your strengths as a manager. The insights you glean may help you use your valuable personal resources more wisely and develop a better understanding of others.