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The tanning industry’s yearly event in Nashville, the ASA World Summit Conference and Open Board Meeting, will take place Oct. 6-7 at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. Registration and hotel blocks will be available soon.

This Friday and …

Most owners of independent tanning businesses seem to pride themselves on customer service. But what does that really mean? If you think it’s all about being nice and knowledgeable, your salon is missing some of the components that will make …

A European study showed that three non-burning sunbed sessions weekly was more effective at raising vitamin D blood levels than 1,000 IU of daily vitamin D pills.

Published in the European Society for Photobiology’s journal, Dr. Fran de Gruijl was …

By Lydia Calderón, Smart Tan Marketing Manager

Email marketing is still a vital tactic when communicating with future and current customers of your tanning business. With an estimated 2.9 billion email users worldwide by 2019 (Statista), it’s no secret that …

Devoted Creations is the official indoor tanning sponsor of the Classmate USA Spring Break Model Search. The Classmate USA Spring Break Swimsuit Calendar is the No. 1 swimsuit calendar in the country!

The annual model search produces the calendar …

Winter 2017 was dismal and drab for the folks of Angus in the province of Ontario, Canada. But crummy weather only serves to fire things up at Purity Esthetics and Tanning. Literally. The salon has two fireplaces. And they’ve got …

While some knowledge is universal, each and every tanning salon has its own unique employees, policies, strengths, weaknesses, challenges and issues. Even salons within the same chain or franchise may have slightly different needs. And of course, as we all …

From Carole Baggerly, GrassrootsHealth

In an effort to increase public awareness of the importance of sunshine to human health, we have declared May to be “National Sunshine Month.”

With the transition from an agrarian to a technology-driven society, and other …