Crowdsourcing: Do you encourage your male clients to wear polish (clear or color)? Why or why not?

This month we asked nail techs: Do you encourage your male clients to wear polish (clear or color)? Why or why not?

Crowdsourcing: What terminology do you use with your clients to distinguish between the various types of gel (soak-off, hard gel, gel-polish)?

This month we asked nail techs: What terminology do you use with your clients to distinguish between the various types of gel (soak-off, hard gel, gel-polish)?

Is it Wise to Share Ideas with Other Salons?

We asked a salon owner, an employee, and a both renter this very question, and receive three different responses.

How Do You Keep Others Motivated?

Sometimes keeping yourself motivated can be enough of a challenge. So what do you do when it comes to keeping others up and running? Do you recommend a book for them to read? Offer them words of encouragement? Instruct them how to keep going?

Crowdsourcing: Do You Accept Apple Pay or Venmo or Other Non-Traditional Forms of Payment in the Salon?

This month we asked nail techs: Do you accept Apple Pay or Venmo or other non-traditional forms of payment in the salon?

Let the Ideas Flow

Everything grows better in fertile soil. It’s time to start enriching the salon atmosphere to get the most valuable and productive ideas yet. Whether you are the owner or an employee, there is always room for new ideas.

Sharing Is Succeeding

Networking with other salons at a tradeshow, or even at an informal breakfast meeting can make many good ideas go a long way.  

Crowd-Funding For Better Location Starting Soon

I have some semi-exciting news: The space on Broad is all but nailed down! The next step is putting in the business plan, tax info, and deposit. If everything goes well I will be in by

Over-Diversification

The Internet has done great things for our industry, but Maggie is finding there’s just too much out there.