service pricing

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?

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Remove Hair, Add Profit With Waxing Services

For salons willing to make the affordable investment in hair removal services, the payoff can mean a dollar per minute, per service for the salon and fast results for your clients.

You Pick, You Pay

This salon owner can't stop her clients from picking their nails, but she can disincentivize it by charging them when they do.

Reader to Reader: Should a Beginning Tech Earn the Same Wages as a Senior Tech?

Most nail techs agree that seniority should bring a higher price.

Manicures Prices Up, Acrylics Prices Down

It's a distressing fact that for the last few years there has been relatively little movement in salon service prices.

Can You Afford (Not) to Raise Your Prices?

With services  prices flat for the sixth straight year, salon owners hesitate to raise their prices, even in the face of the rising costs of doing business. Are you sure it's clients' unwillingness, and not fear, that's holding your prices down?

A Salon Owners' Roundtable

It’s not always easy to network with other salon owners, since all of us are so busy, and many of us keep our business dealings “close to the vest.”

Don’t Go Broke When Clients Go Natural

Learn to do a complete, top-quality manicure in a half-hour, including soak massage and price your manicure appropriately.

Nail Techs Reap the Rewards of Experience

Nail Tech Does One Nail at a Time

For a nail art design that takes an hour, nail artist Judy Franck charges what she would for a fill.