Reps behaving badly? How to 'win-win' with your product company.
13/08/07 08:29 Filed in: Business
Real Truth about the Business of Salons - part 2
19/05/07 13:41 Filed in: Business
Staff $, wages$, salaries$,
Super$, Workcover$, holiday pay$...$...$...
Running a salon business has got les to do with how straight a bob that you can cut. And much more to do with how great a team you can build.
Like all armies, salon staff march on their stomachs. They'll do the job alright. But you have to reward their good endevour properly. That of course means money, money & more money.
And that particular buck stops with the salon owner...
Part 2 - The Real Cost of Employing People
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Running a salon business has got les to do with how straight a bob that you can cut. And much more to do with how great a team you can build.
Like all armies, salon staff march on their stomachs. They'll do the job alright. But you have to reward their good endevour properly. That of course means money, money & more money.
And that particular buck stops with the salon owner...
Part 2 - The Real Cost of Employing People
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The $$$'s side of Salon's. (Part 1)
13/05/07 21:03 Filed in: Business
Business, Money. Money, Salon.
Salon, Money. Business?
So you want to own a salon? Or maybe youre about to begin managing a salon? Perhaps you'd just like to know a little more about how things work on the business side?
Well Ok.
Here's the first installment of a multi-part series on the "Real Truth about the Business of Salons".
In this series I'll cover many issues related to the $$'s that flow through the salon and where the hell they all go to.
Topics will include:
- operating costs
- staff renumeration
- product companies & you
- marketing & PR
- the cost of sales
- essential fixed overheads
- taxes
and many other juicy titbit of fiscal joy.
I'll try to put most topics across simply & in a fun easy to understand way. That's most topics, some topics are just dead boring but you get that too in life.
So without further ado... let's start with...
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So you want to own a salon? Or maybe youre about to begin managing a salon? Perhaps you'd just like to know a little more about how things work on the business side?
Well Ok.
Here's the first installment of a multi-part series on the "Real Truth about the Business of Salons".
In this series I'll cover many issues related to the $$'s that flow through the salon and where the hell they all go to.
Topics will include:
- operating costs
- staff renumeration
- product companies & you
- marketing & PR
- the cost of sales
- essential fixed overheads
- taxes
and many other juicy titbit of fiscal joy.
I'll try to put most topics across simply & in a fun easy to understand way. That's most topics, some topics are just dead boring but you get that too in life.
So without further ado... let's start with...
Read More...
Hair Biz - Magazine review
05/02/07 16:50 Filed in: Business
It's not
too often that magazine comes across my desk & I actually make
the time to read it from cover to cover. Let alone drag the thing
around the salon touting the contents!
Hair Biz issue 1 is a great read.

I can fully recommend this magazine to all salon owners, managers and other business oriented professionals in the hair industry. Read More...
Hair Biz issue 1 is a great read.

I can fully recommend this magazine to all salon owners, managers and other business oriented professionals in the hair industry. Read More...