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                    In a Nutshell
   Information and Tips for your Image Consulting Business

 09/04/02                                           Issue #5
 Linda Gerloff, Editor, linda@blueflute.com
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    =>  Inventory Updates for September
    =>  Blue Flute News 
    =>  ‘In a NutShell’ archives 
    =>  Feature Article -
          The Business of running a Business – It doesn’t
          have to be confusing.
    =>  Fun Trivia

    =>  In my business, how do I ...
         Handle buying the same product at several
          discounts?
    =>  Guest Column
         Some Ideas for Jumpstarting your business (Part 2)
                   by Karen Mosteller
    =>  Getting along with your Computer -
         It’s a Jungle in There!
    =>  NutShell Tip – Reconciling your Purchase Order 
    =>  Recognition Corner 
    =>  Party Game
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 ‘In a NutShell’ archives
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 Feature Article –
  The Business of running a Business – It
               doesn’t have to be confusing.
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 With many consultants just starting their businesses, and
 other consultants ready to get serious about managing
 their businesses more effectively, now is a good time to
 talk about what running your business really means.

 There are many reasons for having an image consulting
 business. These reasons are as varied as the group of
 ladies and gentlemen who have chosen to be image
 consultants. Some of the common reasons are:

1. To make a difference in other women’s lives
2. To get out of the house and be with other adults
   (if you are a mother of small children)

3. To spend time in an area that you love – fashion,
   beauty, skin care

4. To be your own boss and work at home

5. To make money

 Almost everyone who is a consultant wants to make money.
 We may love what we do, but loving what we do doesn’t pay
 those bills! The problem is that when we start making (or
 losing) money, the IRS wants to know all about it.
 Sometimes, our significant other has business related
 questions, too. Plus, you can’t really be an effective
 business-person if you don’t have a good idea where your
 money is coming from and going to.

 So, how to talk about managing your business without your
 eyes glazing over from boredom or confusion? It doesn’t
 have to be hard. First, let’s consider what is essential –
 the information you need in order to do your taxes. During
 tax season, when you sharpen your tax-computing pencil or
 head over to the CPA, you will need to know two things:
 1) the value of your inventory at the end of the year and
 2) What your income and expenses were.

 The value of your inventory is one large number, like $1000
 or $3000 or $5000 or maybe even more if you keep a lot of
 product on hand. To figure out what this number is, you can:
    a) Take a glance at your product shelves and guess. This
       method is very fast but only marginally accurate, at
       best.

    b) Sit down with a pencil and paper and all your recent
       BC invoices to calculate how much you paid for every
       product you own and then add it all up. This method
       is *very* slow and could be quite accurate.

    c) Let a computer figure it out for you. This method is
       very fast and very accurate!
 Being the creator of NutShell, you can guess which answer
 I like best, and I think it is the answer you would like
 best, too! By running your business with a computer, these
 tedious details are taken care of for you. It will save you
 a lot of time, headache and maybe even tears, as well.

 The second piece of information you will need in order to
 figure your taxes is a list of your income and expenses.
 Much of this information will come from your receipts -
 receipts for both money coming into your business (income)
 and money going out (expenses).

 One of the most common methods of tracking income and
 expense is the ‘Shoebox Method’. All receipts are tossed
 in the shoebox and then you pay at tax time with
 a big mess to sort through! Another way to determine your
 income and expenses for the year is to keep a log. Record
 all dollars coming into your business and all dollars
 going out.

 Important information to record is the date, dollar amount,
 description of the transaction and classification. Types of
 expense classifications include Advertising, Gifts, and
 Product Purchase. Income classifications include Sales,
 Commissions and Bonuses. Don’t worry too much about
 classifying these transactions properly. This kind of
 worrying will make you throw up your hands in despair,
 while throwing the receipt in your Shoebox! Don’t despair –
 stick to your logging method. If you don’t know how to
 classify a transaction, just get it logged and call it
 Miscellaneous until you can ask a tax professional.

 It is important to log these transactions often – weekly
 or even daily. NutShell will even log some of them for you.
 If you record your income and expenses weekly, you will do
 so about 50 times in a year. At 10 minutes per week, in one
 year you will spend about 500 minutes or 8 hours logging
 the transactions in your business. If you wait till the end
 of the year to organize this information (Shoebox method),
 you will spend not only those same 8 hours, but probably
 more. And it will be much more difficult because the
 receipts you work with can be as much as 6 months to
 a year old.

 Linda’s Axiom - Old info is always harder to work with than
 current info!

 

 In summary, keeping up with the business end of your
 business needn’t been an overwhelming or confusing task.
 For the IRS, you will need to know your end-of-year
 inventory value as well as information about where you
 money came from and disappeared to! A software program,
 like NutShell can help you keep up with this information
 with a minimum of effort on your part. Enter your sales
 and product purchases, along with your incomes and expenses
 as your work your business. If you do so, tax season will
 be a breeze!

 Next month, we’ll examine other non-tax-related ways that
 good bookkeeping can help you run a better business.


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 You can get more information about using the NutShell
 software here: http://www.blueflute.com/btynut.htm
 

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 Fun Trivia
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 The San Blas Indian women of Panama consider giant noses a
 mark of great beauty. They paint black lines down the
 center of their noses to make them appear longer.

 from www.absolutetrivia.com

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 In my business, how do I ...
       Handle buying the same product at several discounts?
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 This question affects your tax-time paperwork in two ways.
 As mentioned earlier, in order to do your taxes you need an
 end-of-year inventory list as well as a list of your income
 and expenses.

 The discount rate at which you purchase your inventory will
 affect both of these pieces of information because it
 affects the number of dollars that you spend. Let’s consider
 your income and expense list first. Buying product costs
 money, so it is an expense. The IRS will want to know how
 much money you spent on sellable product. Sellable product
 is your Retail A and Retail B.

 To figure the amount that you spent on product, it matters
 not one iota what your discount percent was. What matters
 is how many dollars you spent. You care what the discount
 was, because it will affect your profit, but for tax
 purposes, the actual number of dollars spent is what counts.
 So, when you buy product, log the amount that you spent.
 This can be calculated by your total Retail less your total
 Discount. If you use NutShell, you don’t have to worry
 about this at all. Just enter your purchase order and go
 on to the next thing on your to-do list. NutShell will track
 the correct information.

 The other information that will be affected by your discount
 rate is the value of your end-of-year inventory. Again, it
 isn’t really the discount that matters, but what you paid
 for the product. When calculating the total value of your
 inventory, you will need to take into account how much you
 paid for each piece. This is usually done on the principal
 that you sell your oldest product first. It’s called FIFO,
 or ‘First In, First Out’. What this means to you is that the
 value of your inventory is determined by your most recent
 purchases.

 Well, that sounds pretty complicated, so let’s simplify with
 an example. Say you bought a cleanser last month at 40%
 discount and you bought one this month at 55% discount. You
 have sold one and you have one on your shelf. It is
 considered that the 40% cleanser is the one that you sold
 since you had it first. So, the 55% cleanser is the one
 you have in stock. If you were to calculate the value of
 your inventory, you would take the retail price of the
 cleanser when you purchased it and subtract the 55%
 discount.

 As with the expense issue, if you use NutShell, you don’t
 have to worry about FIFO, or how to value your inventory.
 NutShell will calculate it all for you correctly. If you
 don’t use NutShell, and want to figure out the value of your
 inventory, just start with your most recent orders and
 use the prices and discounts from them to figure out the
 value of your product on hand.

 In general, the idea is that, on a daily basis, you don’t
 have to think about all this. Just log your product expense
 manually, or let NutShell do it for you. At the end of the
 year use your most recent orders to determine the value of
 your inventory (or let NutShell do it for you!)

 

         *-----------Quote of the Month-------------*
           
          The greatest discovery of my generation is
          that human beings can alter their lives by
          altering their attitudes of mind.
                               - William James

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 Guest column 
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 Note from Linda: Las month, Karen shared with us Part 1 of
 her article about having a successful business. As the
 #1 consultant in awards year 2001, she knows what she is
 talking about. Part 1 included points 1, 2 and 3.
 Here is Part 2:


 SOME IDEAS FOR JUMPSTARTING YOUR BUSINESS!

 

 by Karen Mosteller

 UNIT VIP

 Marietta, GA

 1) Don’t leave God out of it.

 2) Be yourself. 

 3) Keep inventory on your shelves.
 
 4) If you say you are an “Image Consultant,” then
 you need to LOOK LIKE ONE.  How can you possibly sell skin
 care products, if your own skin is not gorgeous and glowing?
 Get BC products onto your own face.  YOU be your own best
 testimony regarding the results which are possible with BC’s
 leading-edge skin care and anti-aging products!  Learn how
 to apply makeup well.  Study Jinger’s videos!  You must
 come across as well-trained and knowledgeable whenever
 you’re working with your clients.  This will enable them
 to have confidence in you and want to buy from you!
  Finally, whether you’re a Romantic, a Classic, a Natural
 or a Dramatic, you need to look pulled together yourself!
  How in the world could you possibly expect to attract other
 women to try out your product lines … how in the world could
 you ever expect anyone to take you SERIOUSLY regarding
 anything about Fashion & Image, if you look like a mess
 yourself.  Let’s be honest, ladies.  If WE present a
 snappy, pulled together, confident look, and walk with
 our head held high, a smile on our faces, a spring in our
 step, and a positive attitude, then other women will be
 drawn to us like moths to a flame!  They’ll want to BE US! 
 That’s the key!  So, whatever your Fashion Personality,
 be THE BEST Romantic, Classic, Natural, or Dramatic
 walking the streets !

 

 5) Set goals; plot your strategy for achieving them;
 and track your progress.  You will NEVER get to your
 destination if you don’t have a map to guide you. And
 there’s another aspect of goal setting which works in your
 favor …, and that is accountability.  Work with your
 Director or your Regional Manager of New Business
 Development to put together some realistic, achievable
 goals for the year.  Ask them to HELP YOU!  Get your goals
 mapped out onto a timeline.  Look at your targets.  What
 ACTION do you have to take in order to reach those targets?
 What do you need to be putting into place RIGHT NOW in
 order to see your dreams fulfilled? Make your Director and
 your Regional Manager a part of your team!  THEY want to
 see you succeed just as much (and maybe more!) than YOU
 want to SEE YOURSELF succeed!  So, set goals; put them onto
 a timeline; put action plans in place which will enable you
 to achieve your goals; and track them each and every month.

 

 6) NETWORK!  Guess what, ladies?  There are A LOT OF
 SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN BEAUTICONTROL!  Look around!  Pour over
 the Achiever magazine each month.  Do you know what you’ll
 see?  You’ll SEE some of the SAME FACES over and over and
 over again.  Do you know what these women are called?
 They’re called TOP ACHIEVERS, and their faces are
 constantly in that magazine for a reason. Make friends with
 them!  Walk up to them whenever you see any of them and
 introduce yourself. Don’t be afraid.  Don’t hesitate. We
 are a “family” at BC.  Exchange business cards at
 Celebration and at Leadership Conference with these women.
 They are the ones who know what it takes to succeed in this
 business, because THEY HAVE DONE IT THEMSELVES!  Send them
 an e-mail and share your dreams with them.  Ask them for
 business ideas!  Do you know what I’ve found since I
 joined this company in October, 1999?  My experience has
 been so positive!  Every one of these ladies whom I’ve
 befriended and asked for help HAS BEEN MORE THAN WILLING
 TO HELP ME!  And they were flattered that I asked them for
 help!  Our company is chock full of bright women who have
 LOADS of great business ideas! So, network, ladies!

 

 Finally, my last thought comes from the New Testament book
 of St. Luke, where he writes, “To whom much is given, much
 is required.”  I believe this, ladies.  When you put GOD
 FIRST in your life, and you look to HIM everyday for love
 and guidance and wisdom … when you walk in obedience with
 Him, and He pours out blessings upon you and your business
 like showers upon a fertile field, then YOU GIVE BACK SOME
 OF THOSE BLESSINGS WHICH YOU HAVE RECEIVED.  Just because
 He sent those blessings your way, doesn’t mean that His
 intention was for you to keep all of them for yourself.
 Our world is FULL of His people … some have much more than
 others ... many are suffering and in desperate need.  Our
 Lord commanded us to, “Love one another, as I have loved
 you.” And don’t even tell me that you “can’t afford it.”
 Look up the story in God’s Holy Word about the widow and
 her mites …, then you come and tell me that you can’t
 afford to give anything back … to your community … to
 Jinger Heath’s wonderful WHO Foundation … to your local
 Habitat for Humanity or Battered Women’s Shelter. 
 “To whom much is given, much is required.”  And at the end
 of the day … after all is said and done … the only thing
 that really matters in this temporal world of ours anyway
 are the opportunities which we’ve seized to touch another
 human being’s life in a positive way … and make a
 difference … because we were there … and because we cared.

 May our good and gracious God richly bless each of you in
 the years to come, and may He continue to show our nation
 His favor and protection and love.

 

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 Getting along with your Computer –
    It’s a Jungle in There!
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 Have you ever thought that about your computer? With all
 those folders and other files with the funny little icons?
 What does it all mean and how can you ever find anything?

 Your computer is like a very, very big filing cabinet with
 a brain. It isn’t very good at thinking, but it can sure
 do what it is told to do – exactly what it is told to do,
 whether or not what you told it to do is what you meant for
 it to do!

 Well, that is a programmer’s lament and not really what we
 are talking about here! Your computer’s hard drive, often
 called the ‘C:’ drive is the filing cabinet part. It is
 nothing but a huge storage space. The processor, the part
 that is called Pentium III or Pentium IV is the brain. The
 Pentium IV brain is bigger and faster than the Pentium III
 brain.

 If you think of your hard drive as a single-drawered
 filing cabinet, then it is easy to understand what the
 folders are. They are just like folders in your filing
 cabinet which help you to organize your papers into groups.
 On the computer, folders help to organize your files into
 groups. You can create as many folders as you need, and
 you can even put folders inside of folders! This gets a
 little tricky in a real filing cabinet, but in the computer,
 our virtual filing cabinet, it works great.

 With so much space and so many folders, it certainly is
 easy to lose a file. Windows has a tool to help with this
 type of problem. On Windows 95 and Windows 98, it is
 called ‘Find’. On later versions of Windows, it is called
 ‘Search’. Use this tool by clicking on the Start button
 and then on either ‘Find’ or ‘Search’ depending on your
 operating system. You can look for a file by name, or even
 by contents.

 Say you wrote a letter in your word processing program,
 saying ‘I earned my Mustang!’ and then saved it as
 ‘Dear Mom.doc’. But when you get ready to print it, you
 can’t remember where you stored it. To find out where or
 if the file is on your computer, use ‘Find’ or ‘Search’ and
 tell your computer to find the file named ‘Dear Mom’. (You
 don’t have to enter the entire file name. Just a part of it
 will do.)

 But what if you can’t remember the name you gave the letter
 when you saved it? That is a realistic possibility, isn’t it?
 You can even do your search by the text that is in the
 document. You can fill in the ‘Containing Text’ field with
 ‘my Mustang’ and the computer will check all your files to
 find the one where you typed ‘I earned my Mustang!’. Please
 note that this type of search can take a while, so you may
 want to do that while you are cooking dinner or holding a
 party.

            
       *---------------A Good Laugh--------------*
       "All I ask is the chance to prove that
        money can't make me happy."

                      Spike Milligan
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 NutShell Tip – Reconciling your Purchase Order
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 When your inventory ordered is delivered to your front
 doorstep, you will want to receive it in NutShell. However,
 it is important that your NutShell totals match the totals
 on your BC invoice before you put your PO in Receive Mode.
 
 If your totals don’t match and you can’t immediately see
 why, approach it this way:

 Start with the first item on the NutShell PO. Find it on the
 BC invoice, check that the quantity and retail price match,
 adjusting your NutShell PO if necessary, and then check it
 off on the BC invoice. Do the same thing with every item on
 the NutShell PO. If you find an item that is in NutShell,
 but not on the BC invoice, delete it from the PO by
 double-clicking the description. When you finish, look at
 your BC invoice and see if there is anything that didn’t
 get checked off. If there is, then that item or items need
 to be added to your NutShell PO.

 Check the discount column near the Retail price for each
 item and make sure that it is blank all the way down. The
 only time it shouldn’t be blank is if you want a particular
 item to have a discount that is different from the Retail A
 discount in the upper right corner.

 

 Then make sure that you have the correct figures in
 Retail A discount%, Retail B discount %, Adjustment
(usually zero), shipping and sales tax.

 Please note that NutShell hasn’t been educated on the new
 sales tax laws. If you live in a state that doesn’t charge
 sales tax on all items, you will need to enter the sales
 tax amount that shows on your BC invoice into your NutShell
 PO. States that are affected by the special sales tax rules
 are: CT, DC, FL, IL, MN, MI, NJ, NV, NY, PA, RI, TX, VA and
 VT. If you live in one of  these states, you can see which
 products are affected on page 5 of the BC order form.

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   Recognition Corner
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 Congratulations to the following NutShell users who have 
 worked hard and achieved success in advancing their careers!

 ~ Celebration Awards ~
  Roxanne Dufort - #5 Selling Consultant
  Pam Vanden Bulk - #10 Selling Consultant

  Victoria Shipman - #7 Selling Director
  Margaret Smith - #10 Selling Director

  Judy Guerra - #3 Director
  Stacy Wallert - #4 Director
  Margo McBee - #9 Director
  Judy Byrum - #10 Director

  Lisa Wilkinson - #3 Senior Director
  Margaret Smith - #7 Senior Director
  Liz Licavoli - #9 Senior Director

  Shelly Ward - #1 Executive Director
  Joanne Harder - #4 Executive Director
  Linda Thacker - #8 Executive Director
 

 ~ $10,000 Parent Directors!~

  Pam Lamari
  D. Susan Smith
  Linda Thacker
 
 ~ $5,000 Parent Director!~
  Linda Alexander

 ~ Senior Executive Director ~
  Rita Kay Isaacs
 
 ~Mustang Director!~
  Amy Bouschart
  Deborah Bryant
  Wendi Hebert
  Jeana Jacob
  Donna Mason
  Judy Meaux
  Theresa Toohey
  Christy Turner
  Carol Winfree
  Sandra Geise
  Anna Sessoms

  ~Unit VIP~
  Cindy Sykora

 ~ DIQ ~
  Diana Alley
  Thelma Blount
  Gina Bullis
  Tina Fitts
  Brenda Fogerty
  Jenna Fujimoto
  Bonnye Hicks
  Donna Kistler
  DJ Loehr
  Sherri Maxwell
  Sue McKeithan-Jensen
  Karen Mosteller
  Sandra Mozey
  Nancy Neel
  Alicia Nelson
  Diana Perez
  Lisa Poppenhouse
  Heather Richter-Egger
  Jeannie Russo
  Wendi Lawson See
  Lisa Sloan
  Bettie Smith
  Teresa Sykora
  Angie Toben
  Pam Vanden Bulk
  Diane Vivlamore
  Maria Whitas
  Beverly Williams
  Linda Williams
 

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   Party Game – Have You Ever?
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 Getting to Know You - Booking Game

 This game is fun and helps with booking. It will address
 "No one will come" or "I don't know enough people”
 concerns.

 On a 3 x 5 index card, have guests answer the following
 questions:

   1. If you were to decide to go shopping, name 2 people
      you would invite to go along with you.

   2. Write down 3 - 4 friends you don't see often enough
      and would like to see more often.

   3. Name a food and drink you like that is fast, easy
      to prepare or cheap to buy and would make a great
      party snack.
   4. What is your favorite time of day to relax?
      Morning/Afternoon/Evening.
   5. If I were to give you $50 - to spend on our products
      what would you buy?

 

 Have everyone write their name and phone number on the card,
 and place it in a bowl for a drawing for a free product.
 You can give an overstocked item or something that you got
 on sale or in While Supplies Last.

 The answers to the questions make an outline for a spa or
 beauty party. It provides a guest list, refreshments and
 the motivation of getting desired products for free. When
 your guests see that these little things are all it takes
 for them to get started - it will be easier to book your
 calendar.

 The answers each guest gives for the above questions
 provide the following information:

 

   #1 - Friends she knows like to shop - her future customers.

   #2 - Friends she doesn't see often enough - her party guests.

   #3 - Her refreshments

   #4 - Her favorite time of day to have a party.

   #5 - Her Hostess gift 

 

 If you would like to share a game, please do!

 mailto:games@blueflute.com

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