Small Business Tips

Holiday Sale Season: 5 Tips For Keeping Your Business Focused Through the Holidays

It’s the holiday season and your business is ready to make some happy shoppers and gift givers. But keeping customers happy and keeping your business focused through the holidays can be trickier than driving a one horse open sleigh. Paying attention to the following 5 ways will ensure your business is laser-focused through the holiday […]

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Generating Additional Income for Salons with Product Expansions

Once a salon is able to compile a roster of returning clients, the business is off to a good start. However, many salon owners and hairstylists focus solely on providing services, such as cutting, blow-drying and styling hair, without considering other ways of generating additional income. A salon is limited to the amount of clients

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Let’s Talk Money: 5 Ways Businesses Can Maintain Financial Transparency with Employees

Talking about money with friends, colleagues, family, or any other relationship that exists is usually topic that is avoided. When running a business, this trend also seems to remain true. Businesses are often reserved when it comes to sharing the company financials with its employees for a variety of fear-based reasons. While every business has

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How to Create Customer Loyalty to Your Salon, Not Just the Hairdresser

Salon owners are in unique situations when it comes to operating their business as most of these entrepreneurs rent individual stations to hairdressers, who are self-employed. The owners are dependent on the hairdressers to bring in their own business; if they are successful, the salon is busy and profitable. If the hairdressers fail to attract

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Turning Window Shoppers into Sales: 4 Simple Ways to Bring Outside Shoppers In

Window shopping for some is a pastime, and for others it’s a way to see what deals and sales are for the taking. Do not let a window shopper just glance in your store and move on! By simply following these four steps, you will ensure that the average window shopper will enter your store and

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How to Predict Your Inventory Needs for the Holidays

As the weather starts to cool, merchandisers’ thoughts turn to Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, while online sellers are more interested in Cyber Monday, three days later. Then comes the whole Christmas shopping frenzy, and the post-Christmas bargain hunting. In all cases, getting your inventory right can make the difference between a profit or

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3 Things to Consider Before Opening a New Business Location

Opening a new business location can provide many advantages, from additional profits to increased brand exposure. However, there are essential steps to ensure the success of your expansion that many small business owners forget. Investing into opening a brand new location without sufficient preparation can be detrimental to your entire business operation. Therefore, it is

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