By Ivy Potter

Clients expect retail products from a professional service provider. Imagine having your hair styled in a salon that didn’t sell shampoo or hairspray. Ever had a stylist send you to another store’s beauty aisle with a list …

By Tara Sanders, Touchable Tan

As of late, I am seeing more and more tanning salons in despair about sales and client numbers dropping. Though this is a never ending battle for all of us, there are affordable and creative …

For many small businesses, blogging seems like a great idea, but few follow through to create a space that’s beneficial both for their marketing presence and their customers. Because so many businesses fail to invest the time and effort, creating …

The association between low vitamin D levels and more severe COVID-19 outcomes could be partially explained by the sunshine vitamin’s effect on underlying conditions that increase an individual’s risk of severe illness from the novel coronavirus, according to a study …

By Scott Nichols, salon GM and consultant

If you are one of the few people that is glued to the news, you are brave! Depending on the day and even the hour, the news can give you some hope and …

By Dr. Marc Sorenson, Sunlight Institute

How important is UV? A transcendentally important scientific paper, by Dr. AT Slominski and colleagues, has added significant information about UV (sunlight) for skin. In addition, it explains the intricate connection between sunlight and …

By Grant Miller

One of the most frustrating issues I have to deal with as a salon owner is the constant need to motivate my staff to sell. After 31 years in retail in various industries, not a lot has …