38 September 2015
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beautystorebusiness.com
Give Your Store a Checkup
Business is going great, but don't let that stop you from
updating the fundamentals in your store.
by Steven Austin Stovall, Ph.D.
IS THIS THE YEAR THAT YOU FINALLY COMPLETE
some of those back-burner projects? Perhaps you've been
meaning to clean out the file cabinets or you've wanted to
spruce up the employee breakroom. Maybe it's something
more self-serving, but still important, such as getting training
for new software or attending a seminar on management,
marketing or social media. You probably have lots of tasks
that you've been meaning to get to, but sales, personnel
problems and cost-cutting always seem to take precedence.
Well, now's the time to finish those tasks once and for all.
What follows are some suggestions for a checkup on your
store and on you. It's a good idea to do this about every
five years. That is typically about enough time to tackle
those things that you were going to do "someday." Which
of these could you accomplish in the next 30 days? In the
next six months? There's no time like the present, so roll
up your sleeves and get busy.
Vitaliy
Kytayko,
gettyimages.com
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