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Eight new mini training courses are now available in the Smart Tan online store, designed to help salon supervisors and managers master their multifaceted roles as recruiters, trainers, motivators and more.

With tons of valuable information crammed into each …

The Inc.com article “Biggest Obstacle to Business Growth,” discusses the possibility that your own assumptions and self-limiting parameters may be the primary factor holding you back from business growth. Stop dwelling on the external limits that you can’t change, and …

Profit. Everyone wants it, but the journey to find more revenue leads us on many divergent paths – some of which never reach their fiscal destination. Others pay off with no end in sight, like striking a vein of gold.…

In a recent SmartTan.com poll, 43 percent of salons said their salon’s décor has a modern theme.

Twenty-seven percent said they use a spa theme, and 21 percent said their décor is a tropical theme. The remaining 9 percent said …

When your direct mail pieces are well crafted, they speak to customers in a way that makes them envision their experience with your business in their minds, the Entrepreneur.com article “5 Tips for Producing Direct Mail Copy That Sells” explains. …

Taking plant-based vitamin D2 supplements actually decreased vitamin D3 levels and led to increased muscle damage from weight lifting in a recent study.

“When the sun hits our skin, it turns into vitamin D3. The body is used to that,” …

By Grant Miller, Salon Consultant

One eternal truth is that we all need a steady stream of new customers to ensure the existence of our businesses. Over time, a chunk of your customers move away, choose other solutions, get bored …

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is getting press today — the study  pools survey data collected over the past 22 years and attempts to say that indoor tanning usage is increasing and that indoor …