News Archive for March, 2013

In successful salons across the country, the tanning industry has seen sunless revenues climb to unprecedented heights. On average, these businesses see 20-30 percent of their profits come from this service when properly implemented.

However, most indoor tanning establishments have …

There’s no need to fear setting goals and projections for your business – it’s a no-lose situation, Inc.com contributor Michael A. Olguin explains in the article “4 Reasons You Need to Set Business Goals.” Having specific marks to shoot for …

Tanning beds may be even more effective as a vitamin D producer than was previously believed. That’s the consensus of research published by Dr. Michael Holick’s group at Boston University in 2012. Holick’s group studied 15 people aged 20-53, tracking …

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 …