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More than two-thirds of indoor tanning businesses say they offer at least four levels of UV sunbeds, according to a SmartTan.com poll conducted this month.

Ninety-seven percent of salons say they have multiple levels of sunbeds and 90 percent have …

For college hoops fans, it’s the most wonderful time of the year but for businesses, maybe not so much. Global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. estimates that $134 million in wages are wasted during just the first two …

By Grant Miller, Salon Consultant

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would ever be teaching anyone about math of any kind. It was one of my worst subjects in school. If the world depended on me to …

“The levels of vitamin D commonly being used today barely reproduce what our grandparents got from their greater time outdoors. And even that is well below what would have been the vitamin D intake of early humans living in East …

With 13 years in the tanning industry and 10 as a Norvell Sunless trainer, Laurie Retzlaff is something of a smarty-pants when it comes to sunless. As a sales manager for Stay Tan North, her passion is helping people start …

Forget being the lowest cost provider in your area, just make sure you’re the highest-value provider, Entrepreneur.com contributor Grant Cardone explains in his article “How to Raise Your Prices Without Playing the Blame Game.”

Just because your competitors want to …

“The dogma, now fossilized in print, is that any tan is a sign of skin damage. Tell that to Darwin. Pigmented melanocytes in the skin are a system that protects it from excessive UV, which evolved long before the advent …

Two years after her original black bronzer ignited blockbuster sales in salons across the nation, Jenni “JWOWW” Farley still reigns as tanning royalty. Her partnership with Australian Gold introduced the first celebrity-created products in the industry, and with a line …