News Archive for November, 2017

By Tara Sanders, Touchable Tans

I recently was lucky enough to celebrate my salon’s five-year anniversary. They say that it takes five years to “make it or break it,” so I’m on the better end of those odds! I really …

Two-thirds of indoor tanning businesses say that at least some of their sunless-only customers eventually try UV tanning in their salon, a SmartTan.com poll found.

According to the poll, 31 percent of tanning businesses say that “many” of their sunless-only …

Canada’s sun-deprived northerly latitudes mean 90 percent of Canadians will be vitamin D deficient in the winter. That’s why it’s not surprising that regular sunbed users have the highest vitamin D levels of any group in Canada.

According to Canadian …

The full brunt of winter lies ahead. Besides the general gloominess that this brings for much of the country, UVB light for natural vitamin D production is nonexistent or severely limited in most of the U.S during the winter months.…

Happy employees make for happy customers. That’s probably not the first thing you think about when considering how you pay your staff, but it is an equally viable reason to consider a more aggressive commission-focused compensation plan.

The trickle-down effect …

By Megan Knoll, Grand Valley State University

Many salon owners think they know who their best customers are, but the facts may surprise you. More companies in every sector are using business intelligence to get a complete image of who …

A Harvard University dermatology researcher says that “solar-phobes” are taking sun care messages too far, and that people are better off concentration on sunburn prevention rather than sun avoidance.

From an article posted online in the Harvard Medical School Family …

Online training, or e-learning, is the future of employee education, and it’s what national corporations in most every industry are using to teach company procedures. In fact, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies are now using educational technology …