What Is Your Opinion on Sharing Tips and information with Other Nail Techs?
Are you secretive or do you love to share all you know and have with your fellow nail techs?
Treat Your Team to an Educational Retreat
Millie Haynam explains the hows and whys of educational retreats, which are designed to educate, motivate, and foster team unity.
Keep Them Coming Back for More
Nothing Artificial: Natural Nails Only Salons
Ten years ago any nail tech would have called you crazy if you said you were opening a salon that offered only natural nail services. Today, successful natural nail salons are servicing a growing clientele, and most are doing it with very little marketing.
What is Your Opinion on Sharing Information with Other Nail Techs?
We ask a salon owner, a booth renter, and an employee about what they choose to divulge to their fellow nail techs--and what tricks they keep hidden up their sleeves.
It's a Wonderful LIfe, NAILS Version
Like the George Bailey character in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” I sometimes wonder how bad off the world would be without the professional nail industry, my job, your job — Is it so bad that millions of women would go with unpolished nails?
Ten Ways to Keep Your Sanity During the Holiday Season
While it is a time of the year to make a lot of cash, don't neglect yourself this holiday season.
2005 Readers' Favorite Products
The votes are in! Your favorite products from this year are all here!
Beauty Industry Fund Battles Diversion
In an effort to address diversion, which continues to plague the professional beauty industry, the Beauty Industry Fund (BIF) has launched the Guaranteed Real campaign. The campaign provides salons with information to help them discuss diversion with their clients.
Salon-Finder Websites: Do Online Directories Attract New Clients?
Should you list your salon on the Internet? With free listings you have nothing to lose, but the jury’s still out on the benefit of paying for online advertising.
Showcase Yourself
When looking for a new employee, or even a booth renter, salon owners seek professionalism — and a well-crafted resume or portfolio is one way to demonstrate this. If you have wondered how to put together a cover letter, resume, or portfolio, wonder no more. Here is the information you need to get you started.
Pass It On: Become a Mentor
Being a mentor is more than a time commitment. Yes, you pass on your knowledge, and yes, your salon can benefit by grooming new employees. But mentoring also lets you pass your passion on to a new generation of nail professionals. Here are three stories of impassioned techs who passed their fire on to new people in the industry — and the very concrete rewards they still find in it.
Getting Down to Business
Need a good reason to get more business education? Salon owner Millie Haynam highlights the importance of not just relying on your technical prowess. From marketing and money management to people skills and PR, business skills are vital to making your salon a success.
Learn Something New Every Day
This issue is packed with ideas on education: the state of it, ideas on reforming it, complaints about it, praise for it (what else would you expect from a magazine that bills itself as “Advanced Education for Nail Professionals”?).
Schools That Rock
Since we’re focusing on education in this month’s issue, we thought it fitting to spotlight schools that are providing their nail students with topnotch education. Offering business classes, advanced education, and resources such as job placement after graduation are some of the ways they’re helping turn out nail techs better suited for the real world of nails.
The Frustrated Salon Owner's Guide to Hiring
No one ever said finding a good nail technician would be easy, but it’s not impossible either. Keep reading to learn about hiring strategies, incentives, and benefits that just might make you bid adieu to your frustrations.
What Nail Techs Are Talking About Outline
This month’s assignment is to recap the top discussion topics-those that garnered the greatest number of responses-on Beauty Tech.com’s Nail Tech mailing list over the past 12 months.