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According to a recent article in the Detroit Free Press, massage therapy is growing by leaps and bounds. And not in the typical places you would expect.

Massage therapy is no longer the once-a-year indulgence or special treat one gets at a spa. Sure plenty of spas are still doing massages, but the growth is coming from the health care field. For the first time, massage therapy is considered to be a health care benefit and therapists themselves health care professionals.

Hospitals, therapy centers, chiropractors and other venues are using massage therapy as a healing process. The article goes on to state that massage therapy reduces stress and provides many other benefits.

This is good news for salons and spas. While it’s nice that more and more hospitals are opening wellness centers, I would rather step into a nice spa. But for hospitals, it makes perfect sense. Plenty of people are going to hospitals for many reasons so why not turn the hospital experience into something positive.

One thing the article didn’t mention is that TNG offers advanced massage courses through Biotone. We have noticed that many courses are sold-out and it points to the trend of more people getting into the industry. It’s good work, rewarding and you get to listen to spa music all day long.

Personally, I like a massage with the same frequency of a pedicure: monthly. But I can certainly get used to having them weekly.

Happy Monday!

No business is cool these days unless they have the official Twitter logo AND official Facebook logo on their website’s home page.

As recently as ten years ago, most people opened up the Yellow Pages to find a business that they were looking for along with a phone number. Yellow Pages were a big business for both the phone companies and directory publishers. When was the last time you opened one up?

As recently as five years ago, most people were content that the business they liked had a website, contact info, about us, showed some products and shipped to their home.  While those websites still exist since over half of all e-commerce companies do less than $1 Million in annual sales, they are way behind the curve.

TNG was the first pro beauty company to have a website back in 1995. I cannot tell you how many versions we have gone through but I will brag that our current version is the best one. I also established the first CEO pro beauty blog and to this day, I think I’m still the only one doing it.

But that’s not enough. People love to Tweet on Twitter and post on Facebook. After a bunch of research, we found that what our followers like best to see on theses sites are photos and videos. Now whenever possible, that’s what we are posting. Thanks to our Tweet guy, Eddie, we have it grooving.

Truthfully, all this social networking is a lot of work. People had NO time before this craze, I’m still wondering where they find the time now. Regardless, I have always found hard work is the best source of good luck.

And by all means, please visit us on Twitter and Facebook and post your photo and Tweet/post.

Happy Thursday!

In the midst of the worse recession; in the middle of the slowest month of the year; and when most people are taking vacation days, TNG rocked yesterday like it was the era of prosperity.

The day started with our Kemon on Tour event at the Taylor store. Aaron Michael and Randy once again wowed the group. It was intriguing to witness hairdressers actually learning something new that they thought they mastered over the past 30 years.

We had veterans of 36, 29, 27 and 19 years. Most used Matrix and L’Oreal products and complained about gray coverage, shine and fading. But along the way, they learned about technique, chemistry, color wheels, tone-on-tones, lifting, highlighting, bleach, and most of all, they learned themselves hands-on.

They all fell in love with Kemon. But what I think hairdressers like these are really falling in love with is that someone cares enough to reach out to them and get them excited about color and products again. And even veterans are finally coming around and saying "it’s not too late to learn."

And that’s what I’m most excited about. The Academy was hopping all day with the Kemon "Bob" course. Over 50 were on hand to learn from our Bob experts, Janan Delly and Denisa Cito (Michigan Hairdresser of the Year).

In the S.P.A. Academy, a be PRO advanced makeup workshop was going on where makeup artists were learning new tricks of the trade.

The grand finale was the Moroccanoil launch event at night. I grilled cheeseburgers and salmon burgers while Liz and Dan took care of the details. Anthony, MO’s guest artist dazzled the audience with his 7 languages and humor to go along with the languages. The 150 in the audience soaked up the knowledge and left energized and excited. Special guests on hand were Miss Michigan, Nicole Blaszczyk, as well as Jon Jordan, fashion reporter for WDIV Channel 4.

All in all, nearly 250 industry peers sought out to learn something new, get motivated about their careers and bring a new level of excitement to their salons. When it comes to education, TNG rocks.

Happy Tuesday!