A Blog Post About Blogging!
So today I wanted to write a blog about blogging! Blogging is a massively underused tool that can really help your business – and everyone should be jumping on the blog bus and getting involved. You may be reading this and thinking the same two things that many people have said to me before; 1. What on earth […]
How I Cured My Salon Booking System Headache
UPDATE: June 2020 – We now have a more complete salon software guide. Simply click here. My team’s faces all looked a little unsure when I suggested we drag our booking system into the digital age. We’d been operating 6 years at the time and had always run everything from a diary that sat upon the […]
How To Recruit Salon Staff
If you’ve aspirations on growing your business then at some point you’re going to need to recruit some staff. It’s a milestone for any business, but can be scary too. It’s a topic lots of people fear and avoid but if you do that then you’ll never get your business where you want it […]
Preparing For Your Business Launch
So, you have your new nail bar, salon or premises; your shelves are stocked, your desks are ready, the price lists are complete, but you still need the most important thing to make your business work: clients. Without clients, we can’t exist let alone launch, which bears the question: How do we get new clients? […]
How To Write A Better Price List
We all have to write a price list or menu of treatments for our beauty or hair business at some point. But do we all give it the attention it truly deserves? It’s a more important piece of communication that you might realise. Continuing my series on launching a new business, this week’s blog covers […]
Taking Your Premises From Drab To Fab!
“My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.” – Kevin McCarthy So we’ve all heard the quotes about making a first impression countless times, but are you doing all you can to ensure you’re giving off all the right signals when someone visits you and your premises for the first time? […]
Finding The Perfect Location For Your Beauty Business
If you’ve been reading my ‘get set and go’ guide to launching your own business over the last few weeks, you’ll be pleased to know that we can now move on to the fun stuff… Previously, I’ve written about business plans (read that again here) and securing finance (read that one here), so now it’s […]
How To Get More Stuff Done
We’ve all been there. Those days when you just don’t seem to get anything done. Yet somehow you also haven’t stopped all day. Sound familiar? Wonder how on earth some people manage to get far more stuff done than you? Well I’m pretending to have all the answers but here are five things to consider […]
Working Out Your Finances For Your New Business
As revealed last week, I thought it might be a nice idea to share again some of the articles I wrote last year for Scratch Magazine, the UK’s leading nail mag. This week it’s the topic of working out your finances; something hugely important for anyone considering launching any sort of business. I’ll be sharing […]
How Often Should I Email My Clients?
One of the questions I get asked most often is, “how often should I email my clients?” And it’s not only a very good question but one which often causes some degree of confusion. How often do you send emails to your clients? How often is too regularly? One per month? One per week? Once per […]
Are You Working On Your Business Or In It?
Are you working on your business, or in it? It was at a conference many years ago when I was first asked, along with all the others in attendance, if I worked on my business or in it. I’ll admit I was a little confused to begin with. It required an explanation from the speaker […]
Help! I Don’t Know Where To Advertise!
So the question was recently raised on our Facebook page (click here if you’re not part of this already); “Help, I don’t know where to advertise!” It seems like quite a few others are having similar problems, and thus it warranted a discussion on the matter. You might recall my recent blog post which listed 50 […]