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9.00 - 10.00 Registration and Coffee
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 10.00 - 11.00
Preparing Your Business Plan To Raise Finance
Désirée Fraser
Every successful business starts with a plan – a plan that works! It’s a tool for raising finance to grow your business and it acts as a reference guide to stick to your goals.
You will get advice on writing that winning business plan, get hot tips to help you impress the bank manager and learn how to take your business from strength to strength.
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 10.15 - 11.15
Your Own Salon: From Dream To Reality
Samantha Golding
For many beauticians and hairdressers, owning a salon is their dream - but it can quickly become a nightmare! Successful salon chain owner and Black Business Woman Of The Year, Samantha Golding, will tell you exactly how to avoid the most common business disasters. From getting the right image and cutting through the red tape, to dealing with staff problems and growing your client base everything you need to help turn your dream into a successful business. |
 10.30 - 11.30
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Alexander Amosu
As salon professionals, we have access to more money than we think. Just think - the average hairdresser who earns £150 per day and has a career over a 30-year span will have £1,080,000.00 pass through their hands. By understanding compound interest, cash flow and how to calculate your net worth, we will show you how you too can become a millionaire! |
 11.30 - 12.30
Get Wired For Wealth!
Colin Shove
Colin delivers this seminar with a straightforward no-nonsense guide to using salon information systems to streamline your business activities and enhance your marketing efforts. Colin will show you how to assess your computer and software needs, use your computer to enhance customer service, overcome anxiety and master your business.
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 11.45 - 12.45
How To Find The Best Staff And Keep Them
Jacqui McIntosh
People are the foundation of any successful business, but these days salon owners are finding it increasingly difficult to retain good staff. Jacqui will show you how to recruit, select and motivate your staff, and have them working to grow your business!
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 12.00 - 1.00
Are You Selling Out?
Michael Say
Retail sales should account for at least 25% of your salon’s revenue, but most businesses don’t realise even half that income. Michael Say, National Account Manager for KPSS UK and former director of Sales and Marketing for Wahl UK Limted will show you how you and your team can provide a ‘total salon experience’ and dramatically increase salon sales.
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1.30 - 2.30
Are You Managing?
Jacqui McIntosh
Are you managing your salon or is your salon managing you? Jacqui McIntosh is Director of Education for Avlon Europe, SFEDI accredited business adviser for Salon Strategies and an industry veteran. In this hands-on, no-nonsense session, Jacqui will show you how to boost your salon’s finances, handle difficult clients get the best out if your staff and still have a life!
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 1.45 - 2.45
How To Find The Best Clients And Keep Them
Michael Williams
Winning customers can be hard, but keeping them is even harder. All successful salons have one thing in common- a commitment to delivering excellent client care. This intensive workshop will teach you how to improve your reputation, retain your clients, maximise profitability, deliver on your promises - and make more money.
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 2.00 - 3.00
So You Want To Be On TV?
Jacqui Harper
Enhance your career as a stylist and improve the profile of your salon through media exposure. Have you ever wanted to be the expert on TV and in magazines giving makeovers and style tips? Media expert Jacqui Harper can show you how. Jacqui has anchored news and current affairs programmes for BBC, Sky and GMTV, including her own chat show. Jacqui will teach you the essential skills of media management without the jargon, and answer your toughest questions. |
3.15 Cutting It!
Barbershop University Challenge
From ‘fros to fades, today’s barbers have the sharpest skills, but do they really have the customer service and business skills to cut it in this industry? Led by quiz master Foss aka Chris Foster, Wahl Hair Awards Barber of the Year 2006, four of London’s sharpest shavers go head to head in a ‘University Challenge’ style face off to crown the Salon Strategies Barbershop Business Brainiac! 
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5.15 Fashion Shows
Sensationnel
Sensationnel hair extensions and wigs offer a world of beauty with no limits – just versatility, variety and quality. This spectacular show demonstrates weaves, extensions and braids in an unimaginable melange of trendy styles and colours to suit your clients’ natural hair, lifestyle, taste and budget.
Sensationnel offers the professional [stylist] 100% pure human hair and synthetic extensions made from the finest kanekalon® and toyokalon® fibres imported from Japan.
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4.15pm Head II Head
The annual Head II Head debate is increasing in popularity as the one place where the best of the industry meet every year to share their experience and knowledge with each other, and to develop strategies for helping each other to succeed. This year we pay tribute to the trailblazers and luminaries who paved the way for the salons of today. Our special guests will include pioneering businessman and community leader, Tony Wade MBE, of Dyke and Dryden, and A’Lelia Bundles, the great, great granddaughter of Madame C.J. Walker, and industry pioneer Enoch Williams, founder of Sahara Single Bible. Panellists will be led by the renowned veteran Winston Isaacs in what promises the most inspirational and thought provoking Head II Head to date. An unmissable event!
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 Luster Products Inc of Chicago, USA is celebrating 50 years of quality and innovation in the hair care industry.
Fred Luster, Sr. entered the manufacturing business in 1957 when he developed a line of relaxers for use in his own salon and later established Luster Products, Inc. with a nominal investment. From such auspicious beginnings, the family owned and operated company has grown to a multi-million dollar, multi-national business with sales in over 70 countries.
The legacy continues through Mr. Luster’s children, president Jory Luster and vice-presidents Freddie Luster II and Sonja Luster-Munis.
To celebrate this Golden Anniversary, Luster Products is presenting a ‘sneak preview’ of their new line of products, made just for YOU the ‘Pro’.
Be a part of history and share in the opportunity of a lifetime.
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 Tony Wade will be signing copies of both his books, HOW THEY MADE A MILLION: THE DYKE AND DRYDEN STORY, and BLACK ENTERPRISE IN BRITAIN.
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A ’Lelia Bundles will be signing copies of her critically-acclaimed, best-selling biography, ‘ON HER OWN GROUND: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker’.
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