Visalia, Calif.-based nail tech Maggie Franklin tells it like it is. Never dull, she lends her unique perspective to a wide variety of issues facing working techs.
After asking around for advice and suggestions on online appointment scheduling programs, I narrowed my options down to two. Both will ultimately cost me about $20 a month, but I think it's a fair price and
I believe I have mentioned (repeatedly) in the past that I hate being on the phone. Not just for work, but at all; I was terrible at being a teenager. Nevertheless, the job rather requires it. Only
I think I may have mentioned that once the final tallies were done on the taxes, I owed a little less than I'd feared. Seeing as this is possibly the first year in my personal history
When I bought my trash cans for the salon I had no idea that they would require a genius IQ to operate. I thought it would be worth every penny to invest in the swanky cans
It is now 4:32 pm on Thursday afternoon. I had hoped to work on this post much earlier today but, as it turns out, this is not only my first chance to touch the computer, but
I just said good bye to my last client and, as I was cleaning up my station and dusting off my pants to settle in for the short break I'd been looking forward to, heard myself
Ok, not my life exactly, but probably several hundred dollars in taxes. Whew. First, I subtotaled all those receipts and calculated my gross receipts for 2010 only to break down in tears at the discovery that
Well here it is — tax season again. OK. Admittedly, tax season is pretty much over at this point, what with the deadline so close that my tax preparer-clients are now counting it down in hours.Nevertheless,
I don't mind mentoring other nail techs. In fact, I love it. I love meeting other techs and I love meeting new techs who are enthusiastic not just about starting their new careers, but about starting
Listening to business owners often starts grating on your nerves. It seems that their cups are always either half empty or overflowing; business is either terrible or too good. They never seem to be happy. I rub
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