Do Your Prices Measure Up?
Interested in adding nail art to your menu? Or do you already offer it but wonder whether you are charging the right amount?
Help! Salon Consultants to the Rescue
Whether by coaching leading, or suggesting, salon consultants revamp and revitalize client and staff retention, sales and profits, as well as the owner themselves.
Just My Opinion: To Tell the Truth, Business Is Booming
Hand-in-Hand Partnership: Making Over One Salon's Profitability
OPI launches The Edge training with a California salon and mentors them through each stage. Follow their progress in this year-long project as they learn new business skills and incorporate retailing in their salon.
Expansion Requires A Hard Look At The Books
When the time came to expand to a full-service day spa at five times her present rent, salon owner Leslyn Zak wondered if she could make the leap. So she brought in a financial professional to help crunch the numbers and create a winning game plan.
Tips for Taxing Times
NAILS asked financial counselor Barbara Hargrove to review some commonly missed tax credits and deductions.
Business Advice for Booth Renters
A big negative many nail technicians may fail to consider the difficulty of getting credit or financing from a commercial bank based on your standing as a business owner.
German Nail Specialists Find a Home
The Professional Association of Nailcare Specialists and Nailtechnicians of Germany is formed to support German nail techs.
Tip of the Month: Buying in Bulk
The savings to the clients are good and the profits to the salon are great.
Diary of a Discount Salon Nail Tech
Apprehensive at first, nail technician Heather Sweat took a job at a discount salon for some extra cash. She discovered that these often criticized salons have a lot to teach the rest of the industry.
Just My Opinion: Discount Is Not a Dirty Word
There’s No Stopping the Nail Express
Nail Express proves that “discount salon” is an issue of pricing, not of practices with its upscale decor; high technical and sanitation standards, and “the client is queen” attitude.
Tip of the Month: Save on the Cost of Towels
Blue shop towels can be cut up to make inexpensive, lint-free nail pads.
Discount Salon Stirs Violent Reaction
Two men entered a salon, pointed guns and complained about the salon's low prices.
View Point: Cosmetology Schools
What is the proper role of cosmetology schools and are they fulfilling that role?
Salon Owners Question Government Study
A recent government study recommended that Title IV funding be cut for cosmetology and other proprietary schools because there was a “surplus of trained workers” in those fields.
Behind the Scenes: Christopher Truong
Christopher Truong recently became an educator for OPI Products because he says many nail technicians need help with certain skills, especially when it comes to proper product application.