

The Compensation Dilemma
How can I earn more? Which system is best?
Starting-Point Strategy: Putting Together a Business Plan
So you want to open a nail salon. Or perhaps you already own salon but you want to improve your business.
Publisher's Note: Optimistic About the Nail Industry
I remain bouyantly optimistic about the nail industry, its status, and its future.
Publisher's Note
This month’s cover story detailing how to retail products to your clients raises the issue of whether a retail program can be effective and profitable.
Star Nail Products Reduces Prices Through New Packaging
Star’s goal, according to Tony Cuccio, is to continue to save manicurists money with the best professional products in professional packages.

How Patents Work
You’ve come up with a problem and a solution, an “invention”... but now what do you do?
Editor's note: Price … and Your Bottom Line
For those of you contemplating beginning the new year with a cut in prices in order to remain “competitive,” consider first how costly such a move may actually be to your bottom line.
Publisher's Notes: Price... And Your Bottom Line
Cutting prices to spur business may not be the best approach.



