Blue Flute Software- 'In a NutShell' Newsletter

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Current ‘In a NutShell’ Newsletter and Archives
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this page: http://www.blueflute.com/Newsletters.htm

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Feature Article –
Sign-Up Order Options Sheet
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At the beginning of the recent recruiting promotion,
director Michael Ann Dillinger provided us with a great
information sheet to help recruits understand their
ordering options.

Now that the recruiting promotion is over, Michael Ann
has updated the information and provided it for us below.

Additionally, you can download a colorful, one-sheet print
out of the same information:
www.blueflute.com/Sign-upOrderOptions.doc

This is in Microsoft Word format because you may need to
change the tax figures. The tax is calculated at 7%. If
your tax rate is different, please adjust accordingly.

BeautiCase Contents                    Option 1
Gold skincare set             $66.50    Choose $1000 in products and
Extreme repair hand therapy   $13       receive a 55% discount—you
Lip Apeel                     $18       only pay $450! Get the Spa Tools
Warming Trend               $22       package FREE! ($95 value)
Eye Pads                      $17       Here is how it breaks down:
Bath Minerals                 $20                          $1000
Herbal Serenity Foot Crème    $11                   -55%   -$550
Show of Hands                 $26                        -------
Platinum Regeneration Face    $60                           $450
Platinum Regeneration Eye     $30           **Spa Tools     FREE!
Cell Block C am               $25           Shipping         $14
Sugar scrub                   $14           Tax              $70.98
Microderm Abrasion Crème      $50                        ----------
Microderm Abrasion Buffer     $10         Total           $534.98
Hydration Mist                 $9           Plus kit        $286.76
Bronzing Powder               $15                        ----------
2 shadows @ $13.50            $27           Your Cost      $821.74
2 blush @$13.50               $27           Total Value   $1940
2 lip color @ $9              $18           Your Profit   $1118.26
2 lip pencil @ $8             $16
2 eye pencil @ $8             $16
2 wet/dry @ $21               $42      Option 2
Concealer                     $5.50    Choose $500 in products and
Shadow control                $7       receive a 55% discount—you
Mascara                       $9       only pay $225! Get the Spa Tools
-----------------------------------    package for just $25! ($95 value)
Total Retail of Kit         $574       Here is how it breaks down:
*May Free product pkg       $150            Order:         $500
                           -----              -55%       - 275
                            $724                           ----
                 Tax        $ 50.68                        $225
             Total Retail   $774.68          **Spa Tools    $25
                                             Shipping       $14
Cost of BeautiCase                           Tax            $37.73
Kit        $250.00                                        --------
Shipping    $18.00                           Total         $301.73
------------------------------               Plus kit      $286.76
Total      $268.00                                       ----------
Tax         18.76                           Your Cost     $588.49
---------------------                        Total Value $1407
Total Cost $286.76                           Your Profit $ 818.51

* $150 May FREE product pkg includes: Sugar Wash, Sugar Scrub,
Sugar Lotion, Sugar Butter, Eye Liner, Lip Liner, Lip Stick,
Lip Balm, Microderm Abrasion Body Buffing Creme and Mitt

** $95 Spa tools package includes: Microderm Abrasion Crème
   and Buffer, 4 neck wraps, relaxation CD, and 4 tea light
   candles.

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In my Business, how do I…
    Keep all this paperwork under control?
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Whew! Tax season is over! What a relief!

While you were doing your taxes, scrambling to complete a
year of paperwork in 3 days, how many times did you say
to yourself – ‘I am NOT letting this happen next year!’.

Now it’s time to make that a reality. Bookkeeping is just
like housekeeping or schoolwork or laundry. If you do it
regularly, and often, it just really isn’t that much of a
big deal. But, let it all pile up and you will be hating
it before you have even started.

What you need is a plan and some determination. As a
business owner, you are a person who can come up with both.
The plan will provide the structure and your determination
will insure that it happens.

The Plan: Decide on a set day and time of every week that
you will do your paperwork. This will be your Bookkeeping
Day. It only needs to be about an hour long. Every
Bookkeeping Day, your job will be to do one week, and
only one week of paperwork. Bookkeeping Day is sacred!
Mark it in your planner. Be as devoted to Bookkeeping Day
as you are to the other aspects of your business.
Bookkeeping Day matters just as much as recruiting and
holding spas.

Staying faithful to your Bookkeeping Day is important
for the obvious reason that it will keep you up to date
with your records. But you will be amazed to discover that
it is even more important for several intangible reasons.
Doing your books every week and staying caught up will make
you feel IN CHARGE! When you feel in charge, you will feel
confident. When you feel confident, you will take more
action and be more excited about your business. When you
take more excited action in your business, it will
grow. It is like a vicious circle, but rather than being
vicious, it will be invigorating! Once you get into your
bookkeeping routine, you will wonder how you ever ran
your business any other way.

One of the things that will happen when you have a
regular Bookkeeping Day, is that you will better be
able to keep your inventory counts up-to-date. If you
swap product quite a bit, you may feel especially
challenged about keeping your counts correct. When you
grab a product on the way out the door, you aren’t
very interested in entering an invoice into your NutShell
program right at that moment.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t keep your counts
correct, though. Get a piece of paper and pen that you
can keep with your product. This paper is your Grab Log.
When you grab product on the way out the door, quickly
jot the name of the product and who it is for on the
Log. This will take about 5 seconds! As a responsible
business owner, you can do this!

Every week, on Bookkeeping Day, start a new Grab Log
and take the old one to your desk so that you can enter
invoice(s) for the product you took out of inventory.
Just these few simple steps will pay off for you over
time.

To help you with your Grab Log, I have made a
simple sheet that you can print. Print 10-15 copies
and you will have 10-15 weeks worth of Grab Logs. Every
time you grab product from your shelf, jot it down! Click
here to print your Grab Log:
www.blueflute.com/MyGrabLog.pdf.

         *-----------Quote of the Month-------------*
          “When you are working progressively, step-by-step
           toward something that is important to you, you
           generate within yourself a continuous feeling
           of success and achievement.”
             -Brian Tracy
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