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Compensation and Pricing Megakit
SALON COMPENSATION AND PRICING MEGAKIT
COMPLEX MATH MADE EASY.

Stop pulling your prices off your competitor’s brochures—or worse—out of thin air. Get the beauty industry’s most comprehensive and accurate pricing and compensation calculation tool and get profitable today!

MSO Toolkit
THE MICROSALON OWNER’S COMPLETE BUSINESS TOOLKIT
PROFITABLE INDEPENDENCE.

A wealth of information and tools for self-employed professionals! If you rent a booth or suite, operate a home facility, or freelance, you can’t afford to go without The Microsalon Owner’s Complete Business Toolkit.

Salon Landlord's Toolkit
THE SALON LANDLORD’S TOOLKIT
RENTAL MANAGEMENT SIMPLIFIED.

Do you rent space to beauty professionals? The Salon Landlord’s Toolkit contains a comprehensive guide to rental salon ownership, a rent calculator, and a lease component checklist!

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THE SALON OWNER’S EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING KIT
HANDBOOKS, CONTRACTS, TRAINING, AND MORE.

Everything a salon owner needs to know about how to attract, recruit, train, and retain top talent—including how to design job descriptions, compelling employment ads, and fair employment agreements.

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THE POLICY CREATION AND ENFORCEMENT PACK
RULES ARE RULES.

A 55-page PDF with everything you need to understand why certain policies may be required, who should and shouldn’t implement them, and when and how to introduce them in your salon.

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THE SALON EMPLOYEE SUITCASE
EVERY PENNY COUNTS.

The Salon Employee Suitcase makes income tracking simple, no matter how complicated your employer’s compensation structure is. Learn your rights and ensure every paycheck adds up.

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THE EDUCATOR’S PRICING PLAYGROUND
TUITION AND PROFIT TESTING.

Planning to start a beauty school or host classes? Account for your overhead costs and will automatically calculate your prices! Test different price points to evaluate your profits per term and per year.

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THE SERVICE PRICING TOOL
LEARN HOW THE NUMBERS WORK.

This “lite” version of The Compensation & Pricing Megakit is a great introduction to Excel and can help professionals gain a better understanding about how pricing calculations work. The Service Pricing Tool focuses exclusively on service pricing; tabs related to compensation are not present.

FINANCIAL FREEDOM SYSTEM
A DEBT-KILLING PROGRAM THAT WORKS.

Get out of debt and build savings with this tool that makes personal financial planning as easy as plugging in numbers.

COMING SOON.

BOOKS

THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY SURVIVAL GUIDE
2nd EDITION

Ten years after its release, The Beauty Industry Survival Guide has been updated and expanded for a new generation of salon professionals.

The vast majority of these lessons aren’t taught in schools and don’t appear in textbooks; they’re learned through experience—often in a way that is less-than-gentle. 

Preorder in August and get yours by Christmas in our first printed batch! 

PREORDERS OPEN IN AUGUST!

SALON OWNERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY BUSINESS

Set your salon up for success by following this strategic planning system that guides you from concept through opening day and beyond, while giving you a thorough education in all aspects of the business of beauty.

Don’t make the same mistakes that doom so many salon owners to failure.

This book covers everything you need to know about establishing and managing a professional salon.

Individual Consulting

LET'S TALK

APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE

Many salon owners know how to deliver the services their business offers but were never taught how to manage their business. Even fewer understand the enormous challenges salons face. Unfortunately, this lack of understanding causes many salon owners to make costly mistakes, setting their business up for failure before they even open the doors. As a salon business management consultant, I specialize in helping salon owners and independent operators develop a new way of thinking, eliminating their insecurities and teaching them to embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of owning their own business.

FAQ

All sales are final.

Downloadable items aren’t eligible for returns or refunds since there’s no way to verify deletion of a downloadable file.

If you have any pre-purchase questions that aren’t answered in the item listing, email them to me  letstalk@thisuglybeautybusiness.com. Thanks!

You can try, but…

My spreadsheets are only guaranteed to be compatible with Microsoft Excel and Excel for Mac. I cannot guarantee compatibility with any other program.

Yes, however…

Each system includes detailed instructions that should be accessible to beginners. I recommend learning how to access and use Microsoft’s Excel support resources.

Yes! 

Schedule a consulting appointment with me here.

All downloads are delivered in a .ZIP (compressed) file .

A .ZIP folder is like a digital cardboard box containing all of your virtual products. Like any other shipment you receive, you’ll have to open the box! To do that, you’ll have to “extract” the contents.

If your phone/tablet does not have this capability, there are apps you can download to extract contents from zip files, but for best results, download the files on a laptop or desktop computer, extract the files there, and then send them to your mobile devices if you like to read on the go. (If you attempt to access a zip folder on a mobile device that doesn’t know what a zip folder is, you’ll get a screen full of random jibberish, which is pretty in its own way, but definitely not useful.)

You can try, but…

I highly recommend not attempting to edit spreadsheets on displays smaller than a 15-inch tablet.
(Things get very tiny and very easy to mess up.)

If your phone/tablet does not have the ability to decompress or extract contents from zip files, there are plenty of apps that will allow you to do so. However, for best results, download the files on a laptop or desktop computer, extract the files there, and then send them to your mobile devices or upload it to your preferred virtual drive.

If you attempt to access a file inside a zip folder or a PDF on a device that doesn’t know what a zip folder or a PDF is, you’ll get a screen full of random jibberish, which is pretty in its own way, but definitely not useful. See “How do I open my download folder?” above to learn how to properly extract the files from your downloaded folder.