The two best ways to mentally prepare yourself to open you own business

If you open a business without being fully mentally prepared,  you’re like an athlete who blows the big game because your head’s not in it.  Ask any coach or player in history; your head game is just as – if not more – important than being prepared physically. Here are the two big ones I think people most often neglect to prepare for: 1. Be prepared to handle your employees and your competition.  Sounds obvious, but you need to think a little deeper.  People often open businesses with the...

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Local media look to Great Clips managers for expert advice

    Recently our corporate public relations professionals contacted WJXT-TV, channel 4, in Jacksonville, Florida, and helped coordinate the appearance of two Great Clips managers on The Morning Show. Laurie Laporte, manager at Great Clips of Cobblestone Village in St. Augustine, and Lacy Dunkin, assistant manager, met with WJXT newscaster, Stacey Spanos, and for four minutes at 8:15 a.m. advised viewers on how to get gum out of their children’s hair, how to untangle matted hair, and how to re-style hair when kids...

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Great Clips franchisees are in a win-win situation

This Friday night (7/2) not one, but two Great Clips Camrys will rubberize the asphalt surface and navigate the 31-degree banked turns in the Nationwide Series race under the lights at the famed 2.5 mile tri-oval Daytona International Speedway. In addition to our black No. 38 Great Clips Toyota driven by Jason Leffler, Braun Racing’s No.11 entry, driven by Brian Scott, will feature a matching Great Clips paint scheme that should have race fans seeing double. Jason is currently 11th in the 2010 Nationwide Series driver...

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