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 […]
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 […]
(VIDEO) How To Create Facebook Cover Art With Canva
Now you’ve taken the plunge and activated your Facebook business page (you’ve done that, right?) you need to make it look appealing to your clients with some well designed Facebook cover art. Your cover photo is especially important, it takes up a huge amount of space on your page and may be the first impression your […]
Facebook Name Issues – A Warning!
Don’t say I haven’t warned you! As mentioned before, your Facebook name must reflect your actual name – and the Facebook police are moving in on offenders. Don’t be caught out by this! Yes, it’s true. Facebook have had enough of people pretending their businesses are people and are taking aggressive action. And by aggressive […]
New Skills, And Why You Should Always Be Learning
Yesterday I learned some new skills. Today I feel more positive as a direct result and with a new lease of life! One of my goals for 2015 was to learn more new skills, and to make me a better Hollie 2.0! (I discussed goal setting for 2015 here if you missed it). Therefore the hubby […]