Leadership and Personal Well-being
Are You Putting on Your Own Oxygen Mask First?
In this article, I want to delve into why many salon and spa owners struggle to become successful. After all, the majority have the required technical skills, offer amazing customer service, and love what they do, so why aren’t they financially successful? It also begs these questions, Why aren’t they taking home a decent wage for themselves each...
Are You Running a Beauty Business or Simply Indulging in a Hobby?
Warning: This article may make you feel a bit uncomfortable! If you’re okay with that, keep reading. Truthfully, how are you spending your 9 – 5s? Are you working on the management of your business; monitoring your figures, developing strategic plans for growth, training your teams, discovering ways to reduce unnecessary expenses, improving...
Why Some People Thrive and Others Fail in the Beauty Business (or Any Business)
It often seems that some people appear to have the magic touch when it being comes to being successful. Everything they do just seems to be the right thing, at the right time - nohting ever seems to go wrong. Or maybe that's all an illusion…… [clickToTweet tweet="The truth is that successful people do things differently from those who try and...
6 Simple Steps to Conquer Overwhelm
We all feel overwhelmed at times. Too many things to do and not enough time to do them in. The real problem with overwhelm is that when it strikes, it tends to bring you to a complete stop. You just don’t know what action to take next, and so you take no action at all and therefore nothing is achieved. But there are some simple steps you can take...
13 Powerful Strategies to Kick-Start Your Spa in the New Year
At the beginning of each year, most of us make a mighty dollop of personal New Year’s resolutions; get thinner, get fitter, stop smoking, drink less, or maybe it’s all of these and a few more for good measure. However, when you own a business, you often need to extend those resolutions to include new and better strategies to help you to achieve a...
Say Goodbye To Useless Stress in Your Spa
,Stress is one of those things that every salon and spa owner is going to feel at some time or another. Let's face it, with so many challenges to meet head on every day, there are going to be times when you feel out of control and let stress slip right into your head space. But not all stress is bad stress. I believe there are two types of stress...
2 Must-Do Simple Strategies to Avoid Salon Burnout
Running your own business is plain hard work, and if you’re not careful it can sometimes lead to business owner burnout. This is when you no longer feel that the rewards you get are no longer worth the amount of effort you need to put in. But it’s not just the long hours and physical activity that can lead to burnout, it’s also the extra stress...
4 Sure-fire Strategies to Avoid Business Burnout
Growing a successful business in the beauty industry can involve lots of stress and hard work. Many spa owners try to divide their time between servicing clients and managing their business, which is why they are often the first to arrive in the morning and the last to leave at night. What inevitably results from this routine is a lack of time to...
7 Simple Things You Can Do To Build A More Successful Spa Business
'1. Stop discounting. Discounting your products and services will almost always lead you down the road to financial stress. I know you have most likely heard and read this message many times over from a variety of sources, and yet it continues to happen in most salons. It may seem like a good short-term solution to get money in the door and...
Are You In The Beauty Business Or The Business Of Beauty?
You may be asking yourself “what’s the difference?”, but the fact is that being in the beauty business and being in the business of beauty are two vastly different things! Here’s a quick overview of both...you decide which category you belong to: Those who are in the beauty business: Generally always arrive first in the morning and leave last at...
If It Is To Be…
As the current financial crisis is hitting home for many businesses, both large and small, I see a great deal of stress and worry. What I don't see is much 'ACTION' taking place. Many small business owners are simply sitting tight, hoping against all hopes that they will simply survive and not be one of the many who will go under before...
Finding the Hidden Profits in Your Salon
It's challenging and exciting being a business coach. I have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of salon owners and their staff and yet I have never yet found any two businesses to be remotely similar. This is where the fun part comes in though! Getting to find where the hidden profits are in any business is literally like finding the...