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Wednesday 04/08/2010
“Making a welcome return ~ Company Points Challenge 2010”
This was a new challenge introduced in 2009 to encourage your training company or product supplier to support you in entering nail competitions.
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5 Great Tips For Your Small Business
Social media…There is plenty of buzz around it but, you may be wondering “What can it do for my business and more importantly, how can I utilise it in my business operations?”
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Tuesday 25/05/2010
Bright Ideas-Skin Pigmentation
Pigmentation is not just a summer issue, popping up with the first signs of the sun...
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How To Survive Increased Competition And Reduced Consumer Confidence This Summer
If you run a beauty salon you are part of the retail sector and right now there is a squeeze on in this sector. No doubt about it, customers have pulled back on their spending habits.
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Wednesday 12/05/2010
Clients-Keep 'em comin back for more!
getting clients to come back for more...
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Diets and Glycemic Load-Should We Cut Out Carbs?
With all the diet ‘miracles’ abound this time of year it’s time to make sense of the foods we eat...
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Cleaning Out the Body
Everything we eat, drink and breathe is a potential toxin for the body, even oxygen has the potential to create deadly oxides capable of triggering cancer and speed up ageing. Scary stuff-but all is not lost!...
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Wednesday 28/04/2010
Smoked Out-Detoxify and Beat the Cravings
Smoking is not only bad for your health but also plays havoc with your skin. We take a look at how the body can recover when a smoker makes the decision to quit.
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Hitting the Spot
Spots, pimples, blemishes, zits ...call them whatever you want, these symptoms of problem skin can be both debilitating and embarrassing for many people. An increasing number of men and women are now developing acne, sometimes for the first time in their lives.
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Wednesday 07/04/2010
The Green Debate-Is Natural, When it Comes to Skin, Really the Better Option?
Organic skin products are becoming more and more popular with consumers. The idea of ‘organic’ anything seems to be a good one, whether it be food or face cream
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Wednesday 31/03/2010
Free Online Advertising Channels for Your Business
What a wonderful invention it is, this thing we call the Internet! If you would just take your time to know your way around, you could discover a lot of premium products and services being offered for free.
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Tuesday 30/03/2010
Top 10 Tips to Continue to Beat the Recession:
tips to help beat the recession
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Wednesday 24/03/2010
Ten characteristics of Top Retail Sales Therapists
Ten characteristics of successful retail sales therapists
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Tuesday 02/03/2010
The Phorest Salon Survey-Salon Owner Attitudes
Phorest recently carried out a survey with just under 200 salon owners in the UK and Ireland, looking at their attitudes towards where their salon is and where it’s going in the future.
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Tuesday 23/02/2010
Top Ten Reasons to Retail!
Liz McKeon offers top ten reason to retail
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Wednesday 03/02/2010
Looking to Retrain or Upskill? You May be Entitled to Funding
It would seem that in the current climate many people are looking to retrain or upskill, and depending on your circumstances
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Filling Off-Peak times
Every service business has two off-peak periods they need to turn their marketing attention to:
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Tuesday 02/02/2010
The 5 Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur
Studies have shown that successful entrepreneurs possess these characteristics:
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Tuesday 05/01/2010
7 Step Plan To Get Going With Networking
Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, feel like you have the gift of gab or just don’t know how to make small talk, networking know-how is very important for business success.
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Wednesday 02/12/2009
Internet Marketing
Having a strong understanding of internet marketing and how to make the most of it will help you excel in today's competitive environment
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Wednesday 18/11/2009
Feeling the effects
Liz McKeon tackles poor morale amongst a salon team
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Tuesday 10/11/2009
3 Proven Methods for Turning Away Customers and Losing Money
Are you your own worst marketing enemy? Hey, I’m sure you wouldn’t intentionally turn customers away… but we all make mistakes. In the following article you’ll find some tried and true ways to lose sales and kiss your profits goodbye!
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Tuesday 06/10/2009
Customer Loyalty – The Key to Business Success
hwo to create loyal customers with advice from business expert Billy Mahon
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Friday 02/10/2009
Ireland Online-The Facts-How to use the internet to grow your business
The facts-how you can use the internet to grow your business
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Wednesday 02/09/2009
3 Lifesaving Tactics to Stay Afloat In a Constantly Changing Marketplace
Let’s face the facts…old-fashioned marketing tools aren’t going to keep your business a growing and prosperous entity in today’s marketplace.
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Tuesday 04/08/2009
5 Good Reasons Business Owners Should Take a Vacation
So you think you're not justified in taking time away from your business?
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Wednesday 06/05/2009
Understand the Client and Reap the Benefits
The first point to keep in mind is that, yes, overall spending does contract in an economic downturn, but what does more damage to salon owners and managers is failing to connect with the change in consumer spending patterns.
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Tuesday 28/04/2009
7 Habits of Highly Effective Business Owners
Some time back I read '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' by Stephen Covey. An excellent book and I took it down off the bookshelf just recently again, and I was thinking about it from a business perspective
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Tuesday 07/04/2009
“Don’t just be a good boss, be a great boss!”
What’s your salon policy about ‘fun at work’?
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Wednesday 18/02/2009
Beware the Profit Thief in Your Salon…
Salon owners need to be extremely vigilant about the forces that are constantly at work “inside” their business that are sabotaging YOUR efforts to make money
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Monday 16/02/2009
Increase your Transactions!
Are you capitalising on the sales right in front of you?
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Thursday 29/01/2009
Recession proof your business with beauty business expert, Liz McKeon.
A recession proof company is flexible and seeks opportunities where other companies see only doom and gloom
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Tuesday 24/06/2008
Room For Improvement
It's a sad truth that some beauty training facilities could do better, says Clare McKeon.
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Summer Time
Clare McKeon on how to survive the double whammy of increased competition and reduced consumer confidence this summer.
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Balancing Act
Clare McKeon on tuning into the mind, body and spirit.
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