How to Sell Your Client List
You can’t put a price on friendship, but you can put a price on your clients. Here’s how to come up with a fair price for your client list if the time ever comes for you to sell it.
A Hard Won Victory: Salon Owner Beats the IRS
It took five years and more than $100,000, but Nails Now! Owner Ira Bloom finally prevailed in his quest for the IRS to recognize his nail technicians as independent contractors.
Salons Seek Staff
In 1996, 490,000 employees left jobs in salons.
Manicures Prices Up, Acrylics Prices Down
It's a distressing fact that for the last few years there has been relatively little movement in salon service prices.
Reader to Reader: Should a Beginning Tech Earn the Same Wages as a Senior Tech?
Most nail techs agree that seniority should bring a higher price.
You're Being Audited! One Salon Owner's Harrowing IRS Journey
If the IRS asked to examine your salon's Federal Tax returns, would you survive the audit? Read on for an account of a salon owner who thought she was doing everything "by the book."
Graham Acquires Paper Company
A towel company is the newest to Graham's acquisitioins
OPI Expands Advertising Horizons
InStyle magazine now features monthy full-page ads of the Rocky Mountain polish collection.
Owner's Manual
I recommend a head-to-toe review of the salon operation — a salon “physical” to check how everything is working, to take preventive measures, and to get yourself on a financially healthier program.
Can You Afford (Not) to Raise Your Prices?
With services prices flat for the sixth straight year, salon owners hesitate to raise their prices, even in the face of the rising costs of doing business. Are you sure it's clients' unwillingness, and not fear, that's holding your prices down?
How Less Time = More Money
"These meetings have created the simplest, yet greatest management changes we’ve made in years.
The Money Hunt
Opening your own salon requires patience, skill, and creativity. It also requires a considerable sum of money. If you’re one of the many who don’t have a fortune tucked away somewhere, read on for some sound financial advice.
Nail Technicians of Invention
There is no such thing as a nail technician who hasn’t had at least one idea for a better way to run her business, Meet five nail technicians turned inventors who actually acted on their ideas, with tremendous results.
Rising From the Ashes of a Salon Fire
Before your business gets “burned” by a tragic fire, salon owners advise double-checking your insurance coverage and maintaining secure records off-site.
NAILS' 1996 Nail Technician Compensation Survey
Nail technicians' earning power is up 17%. Perhaps the staff shortages the industry is facing is having an impact on the salaries and prices that skilled nail techs can demand. Our biannual compensation studies will help you understand how your earnings compare to the industry and provide some simple ways to increase your earning potential.
Chain Salons Have Their Benefits
Finding good nail technicians is difficult for all salon owners and a particular problem cited by chain salons, whose growth depends on having a large pool of qualified candidates to choose from.
Be Careful About Using Copyrighted Images in Nail Art
Painting a perfect Mickey Mouse might earn you first place in a nail art competition, but it could also land you in legal hot water. Your nail art could be a copyright infringement.