August 2009
From the Editor
Add-On Service and Retail Revenue Today, more than ever, savvy business professionals are looking for ways to increase revenue. Do you raise your prices? Work more hours? What if you added a new service to your menu or expanded your retail selection? This issue of the Stylist Newspaper answers those questions and more. Read more>
Beauty Business Buzz
Are Your Clients Reaching for Retail? Living in this super fast-paced world where new innovations are introduced daily and technology travels at the speed of light, we can easily get trapped into thinking the new and hottest items in the beauty industry are going to magically fly off shelves and into all of our clients’ hands with ease. Read more>
Better Business
When You Have to Be a Boss You’re getting ready to do a performance evaluation with a key employee. There have been behavior and performance issues that have surfaced a while back that you had hoped were temporary and would just fade away. Read more>
Esthetic Endeavors
Is Stress the Magic Key? Periodically you have to ask yourself, “Are the services we currently offer as popular as they were a year ago?” Read more>
Blue Highways
Embracing Brave New Frontiers I believe those who experience true abundance in their lives, whether in love or in their business, live just ahead of the horizon line. Read more>
Nail Extension
Consumer Confidence Who said the beauty business was recession-proof? We might have been until this recent recession and now many highly skilled, fully booked nail techs are feeling the pinch all across the country. Read more>
Three Months of Marketing
Back to School Marketing As salon and spa professionals, we live in a world that runs two to three months ahead – if we do it right. Read more>
The Mane Objective
Increase Your Profits with Late Summer Add-On Services It’s still summertime, and there remains tremendous opportunity to offer a cadre of add-on beauty services to many of your clients who may desire a change or want to feel refreshed. Read more>
Retail Matters
One Salon Makes Retailing Work What follows is an email (edited for space) from an Ohio based salon that took our retailing advice to heart and made it work for them – with the help of a supportive manufacturer and team-oriented staff. Read more>
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